In seinem hochaktuellen Buch bietet Volker Weiß die erste tiefgehende und historisch fundierte Zeitdiagnose zu den rechtspopulistischen Phänomenen Pegida, AfD & Co. Dabei beschreibt er das vielfältige Spektrum der neuen rechten Bewegungen und untersucht die Herkunft und Vernetzu…
4e de couv.: Little is known regarding the inner workings of the educational systems of most Arab countries. Cultures of Arab Schooling fills this void using critical social theory to offer a rare glimpse into schools in contemporary Egypt. Giving voice to the educators and stud…
Acknowledgements --Notes on orthography and other conventions --Introduction --part 1.A nineteenth-century chronicle in support of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi : Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir's Tārīkh al-fattāsh. --A century of scholarship --The Tārīkh al-fattāsh : a nineteenth-century chronic…
"This book is a study of the West African chronicle known as the Tārīkh al-fattāsh (The Chronicle of the Inquisitive Researcher) and its role in advancing a political project, the legitimation of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi (1818-1862), located in what is now the Republic of Mal…
"This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies, Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the ways in which knowledge is produced through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge' debate and local empirical variations."--Jacket.
