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Body of TextReconstructs the formative debates concerning ritual purity in Islamic law and practice. Ritual purity is one of the least understood aspects of Islamic law and practice, yet it enjoys a prominent place in traditional legal texts and permeates the daily life of ordinary believers. Body of Text examines the emergence and crystallization of the law of ritual purity, using early sources to reconstruct the formative debates among Muslim scholars. The

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introductions to key areas of Luhmann’s theory of society and critical assessments of core concepts of his social systems theory approach

This collection of new research brings together state of the art thinking by 46 experts from academia and business on all key aspects of Islamic Finance

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Köprülü criticized as unscientific the prevailing Western explanations of the origins of the Ottoman Empire

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