Download or read book Demystifying Islam written by Ali Shehata and published by Dr. Ali Shehata. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with references and up-to-date statistics, this edition allows the reader to quickly and intelligently become familiar with the precepts upon which Islam stands, and to decide whether what is presented by the media is representative or biased. (World Religions)

Download or read book Conference of the Books written by Khaled Abou El Fadl and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on classical Muslim authors, he both traces Muslim intellectual history and also confronts questions of ethics, faith, law, politics, culture, and modern identity. He ranges over many facets of Islam in the contemporary world, exploring censorship, political oppression, terrorism, the veil and the treatment of women, marriage, parental rights, the dynamics between law and morality, the character of the prophet Muhammad, and other topics. About half the essays first appeared in The minaret magazine. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Written in the Stars written by Aisha Saeed and published by Nancy Paulsen Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naila's vacation to visit relatives in Pakistan turns into a nightmare when she discovers her parents want to force her to marry a man she's never met"--

Download or read book Self Inflicted Wounds written by Aisha Tyler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS’s daytime hit show The Talk, Aisha Tyler recounts a series of epic mistakes and hilarious stories of crushing personal humiliation, and the personal insights and authentic wisdom she gathered along the way. The essays in Self-Inflicted Wounds are refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, vividly translating the brand of humor Tyler has cultivated through her successful standup career, as well as the strong voice and unique point of view she expresses on her taste-making comedy podcast Girl on Guy. Riotous, revealing, and wonderfully relatable, Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation is about the power of calamity to shape life, learning, and success.

Download or read book Subject Lessons written by John Forrest and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways. It is a way to lay out the felt experience of events in people’s everyday lives and not simply the statement of historical facts. As narrated pieces, life histories possess the unique voice of the individuals. Collecting data through life histories enables the interviewer-interviewee to develop a special bond that has the capacity to empower both in different ways. Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.

Download or read book Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character Volume 1 written by Kanade Otonashi and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toru Aikawa is a university student who spends his days going through the motions of attending school and working at a local convenience store. The only time he really feels alive is when he’s playing the massive multiplayer VR game Real World Online. One day, he has a stroke of luck: he’s hit by a runaway bus and reincarnated as his game character. But something’s gone wrong... Instead of the invincible warrior he mains, he’s in the body of Nacht Schatten, the alluring dragon princess he made as a joke! Nacht’s build is anything but optimized—she would never survive in the cutthroat world of an isekai story! And more to the point, she’s a girl! But perhaps things aren’t as bad as they seem. Perhaps Nacht Schatten is more capable than she appears. Also available as a manga published by J-Novel Club!

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Download or read book Petrodor written by Joel Shepherd and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the quartet A Trial of Blood & Steel picks up the story of the brave and independent heroine, Sasha, now living in the port city of Petrodor. Away from the hills of her Lenayin homeland, Sasha is making a new life in the dark alleys and wealthy houses of Petrodor. An influential trading centre, Petrodor holds the key to preventing the coming war between Lenayin and the mighty Bacosh. Together with her old mentor Kessligh, Sasha attempts to navigate the political intrigues of the port city and find a way to stop the war. It is the serrin, the beautiful but dangerous people from beyond the Bacosh, who will be the pivotal point in this struggle. How much can Sasha trust her old serrin friend Errollyn? And how much can she trust herself?

Download or read book The Stardust Thief written by Chelsea Abdullah and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp. Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son to find the artifact. Aided by her bodyguard, who has secrets of his own, they must survive ghoul attacks, outwit a vengeful jinn queen, and confront a malicious killer from Loulie's past. And, in a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie will discover that everything—her enemy, her magic, even her own past—is not what it seems, and she must decide who she will become in this new reality.

Download or read book Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character Volume 2 written by Kanade Otonashi and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After saving Free Market City from an army of monsters and a confused fire dragon, Nacht and Aisha are living the high life! Now famous heroes, they’ve become the talk of the town and have nobles waiting on them hand and foot. The kingdom’s second princess herself is even requesting a meeting with them—no doubt to discuss the war rumored to be brewing with the neighboring kingdom of Estoll. But Nacht has zero interest in being drawn into human politics. She’d much rather track down Aisha’s missing mother, the elf Floria. Maybe she can help Aisha find closure by finding the woman who abandoned her long ago.

Download or read book Feminism Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam written by Shehnaz Haqqani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic tradition has always been flexible, changing over time and constantly adapting to the different societies Muslims find themselves in. Few Muslims today would abide by the fatwa against the printing press under the Ottomans. Moreover, although Islamic law legislates for slavery and child marriage, only a vanishing minority of Muslims consider these practices acceptable today – and some will even argue that Islam never permitted them. Yet some issues, like the prohibition on female-led prayer and female interfaith marriage seem curiously impervious to change. Why is that? Through a mixture of interviews with ordinary Muslims in Texas and critical analysis of contemporary and historical scholarship, Shehnaz Haqqani demonstrates the gendered dimensions of change and negotiation in Islamic tradition. She argues that a reliance on a mostly-male scholarly consensus means that the ‘tradition’ preserves male privilege at the expense of justice for Muslim women.

Download or read book Uncharted Mission written by D. C. Keane and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too Soon to Celebrate—Too Soon to Quit “Lord, why another mission agency? There are already so many good ones,” Greg Livingstone cried out on a beach in 1983. But, as he made his case to God that he should find someone else to change the world, the answer became clear: the world needed a new agency, operating in a new way, that would focus entirely on all Muslim peoples. So began the wild, risky, worthy story told in Uncharted Mission, a book that is more than the history of the founding of Frontiers. D. C. Keane weaves together interviews with over one hundred missionaries who refused to accept the status quo in missions and were willing to go where no one had gone before—to the Muslim frontiers. In this inspiring true story, you’ll meet pastors, engineers, artists, pilots, and others whose lives changed course when they discovered that Muslims were largely left out of historic missionary efforts. This is a book for innovators who ask, as Greg Livingstone always asks, “How can we do this better? How can we improve?" Don’t simply admire the groundbreakers who went before us in this compelling narrative; there is still work to be done. There are still “frontiers” of mission for the next generation of Christians who want to change the world.

Download or read book Hero De Jure written by Suzan Harden and published by Angry Sheep Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After six months of relative quiet, the legal team of Winters & Franklin find themselves defending America’s greatest superhero after a tragedy in San Francisco results in a horrible death toll. Are Harri and Aisha representing the worst mass murderer in U.S. history? Or is Ultramegaperson the pawn in someone else’s game? The Law Offices of Winters & Franklin, where the only thing more dangerous than a superhero is his attorney.

Download or read book My Favorite Wife written by Elizabeth Andre and published by TulaBellaRuby Press. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the one person standing between you and true love is the wife you never knew you had… When Aisha travels to Las Vegas with her fiancée Kris, all she wants is to get married. The venue is booked. The music has been chosen. The flowers are perfect. The guests are arriving. On the casino floor Aisha runs into a long lost college friend. They’d gotten fake “married” many years before as part of a protest for same-sex marriage rights, but those rights have been granted. That marriage is no longer fake. Now, Aisha has 72 hours to end one marriage before she starts the life she always dreamed of. All she has to do is find a judge basking naked in a hot tub on her day off and get to the chapel on time. My Favorite Wife is the first book in the lesbian romantic comedy series, Going to the Chapel. It’s a sweet romance, which means all scenes stop at the bedroom door, but there are lots of laughs and maybe a few superhero sightings. What reviewers say about My Favorite Wife: "This quickly moving story is full of quirky misunderstandings, goofy but supportive families, and the general bizarreness of the Las Vegas experience. It’s a nice balance between romantic drama, familial humor and Vegas shenanigans, like Bill and Ted meets Father of the Bride."--The Lesbian Review "I love this clever tale!"--Amelia Faith Topics: romantic comedy, contemporary romance, series, modern romance, smart romance, lighthearted romance, Elizabeth Andre, heartwarming, heart-warming, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, contemporary, romance series, emotional, HEA, interracial, multicultural, friends, friendship, family, happy ending, beautiful women, bwww, lesbian pride, romcom, love, african american, black, lgbt, lgbtq+, pride, wedding, humor, femme, wlw, hea, lesfic, queer, Sapphic, Sapphfic, ownvoices, fiction, novel, marriage, funny, relationship, Las Vegas

Download or read book Little Victim written by Harry Keeble and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Baby Xwe learned how super-tough cop Harry Keeble and his colleagues in Hackney's Child Protection Unit rescued dozens of kids, faced lynch mobs and undertook the impossible job of interviewing paedophiles. Now, in Little Victim, Harry takes us through an extraordinary year in the life of the unit, as the team investigates some of the worst cases of child abuse they've ever encountered.These include a middle-class mother who shook her baby to death, the children kept in a cage, the rape of a three-year-old boy and an innocent grandfather falsely accused of paedophila. Little Victim provides a unique insight into the complex issue of child abuse in the UK. Continuing his battle to bring Britain's child abusers to justice, Harry is pushed right to the edge as he confronts horrors past and present.

Download or read book What do I say next Everyday Mental Health Conversations in Primary Care written by Sophie Jadwiga Ball and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant problem experienced by some GPs and many trainees and other primary care health professionals is the challenge of completing a useful and safe consultation with patients with mental health problems within the constraints of a standard-length appointment. These challenges may arise from a lack of specific expertise in this area, poor training in the relevant skills and, perhaps, the attitude that there is not much that the primary care practitioner can do to help. This new book focuses on enhancing the repertoire of communication skills available for mental health consultation, providing a range of tools and techniques drawn from accepted models, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), transactional analysis (TA), motivational interviewing and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), illustrating how to apply these within a typical 10- to 12-minute primary care consultation. Key features: enhances the repertoire of communication and consultation skills for primary care practitioners working in mental health consultations summaries and quick take-home points aid rapid reference in the time-constrained consultation setting whether in person or virtual offers worked-through model consultations with a variety of patients, showing how to apply the tools and techniques described demonstrates how such consultations can be completed safely and effectively within a normal consultation time frame Essential reading for all primary care practitioners in training and in practice, the book equips readers with the confidence and knowledge to provide excellent mental health care for their patients.