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      • Island Press

        Island Press began with a simple idea:knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. We elevate voices of change, shine a spotlight on crucial issues, and focus attention on sustainable solutions. Our network of authors includes E.O. Wilson, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Earle, Gretchen Daily, Jan Gehl, Daniel Pauly, and many others. By working closely with experts like these, Island Press has developed a comprehensive and growing body of knowledge—vital resources for all those working to protect the environment and create healthy communities.

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        KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO. 6/9) RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIROMENTAL DEGRADATION

        by Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen bin Shaikh Mohd Salleh

        This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.

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        KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.1/9) MAQASIDIDC FRAMEWORK FORTHE FORMATION OF KHAYRA UMMAH (THE BEST OF PEOPLE)

        by Azrina binti Sobian, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid (Illustrator)

        This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.

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        KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.3/9) GOOD GOVERNANCE IN ISLAM

        by Mohd Sani bin Badron, Suzana binti Md. Samsudi, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Mohamad Rasid

        This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.

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        KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.4/9) ISLAM, AND MORAL FREEDOM: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

        by Siti Fatimah binti Abdul Rahman, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid

        This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.

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        KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.5/9) THE FAILURE OF EXTREME CAPITALISM: IS ISLAMIC ECONOMICS THE ANSWER?

        by Muhammd Hisyam bin Mohamad, Nur Syahidah binti Abdul Jalil, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid

        This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2024

        Off white

        Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race

        by Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, James Mark

        This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identities, and of the region's current status as a global stronghold of unapologetic white, Christian nationalisms. Contributions address the pivotal role of whiteness in international diplomacy, geographical exploration, media cultures, music, intellectual discourses, academic theories, everyday language and banal nationalism's many avenues of expressions. The book offers new paradigms for understanding the relationships among racial capitalism, populism, economic peripherality and race.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2022

        Pride in prejudice

        by Paul Jackson

      • AGENDA-SETTING PERSPECTIVES ON ISLAMOPHOBIA IN MALAYSIAN NEWSPAPERS

        by Isyaku Hassan, Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi

        Irrational fear of and prejudice against Islam and its adherents, which is known as Islamophobia, occurs in several western countries. This issue has been debated since the aftermath of violent incidents such as the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Afghanistan war in 2002, the Iraq war in 2003, the Danish cartoon row in 2005, the London bombings in 2005, the Paris attacks in 2015, and the New Zealand shootings in 2017. In reporting terrorism, the media tend to construct a negative image of Islam using biased language. This kind of portrayal is one of the significant sources of Islamophobia. Consequently, Islamophobia appears to be reproduced through non-western media. This issue has raised the question of whether newspapers in Muslim-majority nations assume the responsibility of disseminating objective, balanced and fair news about Islam. Hence, this book explores how Islamophobia is reproduced in selected Malaysian newspapers from agenda-setting perspectives.

      • History

        The Devil's Historians

        How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past

        by Amy S. Kaufman, Paul B. Sturtevant

        Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for “medieval times” behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us how the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every century that followed. The Devil’s Historians casts aside the myth of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular culture: one that is diverse, thriving, courageous, compelling, and complex.

      • My India, My Canada

        Being Muslim in Both

        by Haroon Siddiqui

        Though both Canada and India are products of the British Empire, they represent two very different paths that nations today can follow . Along with the United States, Europe, and Australia, India suffers the effects of growing populism, tribalism, and Islamophobia, which threaten stability and human rights for its citizens. Through his memoir, Haroon Siddiqui recounts the highs and lows he has experienced in relation to his native and adopted lands, and the lessons learned from what can go wrong and what can be made right Fromhis early years as the child of a Sufi family in India who endured the horrors of the 1947 Partition, to his move to Canada twenty years later. From watching his adopted country grow more multicultural and welcoming, to the contradiction of those inclusive ideals after September 11, 2001. Any country, no matter its place in the world, can descend into racist, anti-democratic tendencies. Canada has been an exception, but how will the forces of the world change that?   In My India, My Canada, Siddiqui uses his two countries as metaphors to examine the risks of liberal democracy today and the fault lines of the age which threaten to tear us apart He tells these stories as a reminder of both the glories of humanity and the depths to which we can fall.

      • Education

        Backlash: South Asian Immigrant Voices on the Margins

        Foreword by Michael Apple

        by Verma, R.

        This book presents yet another compelling argument about the lives and struggles of new immigrant youth in public schools and demands the attention of educators, policy- makers and academics. In the post September 11th political, economic and social climate there are silenced and forgotten young immigrants in our schools. Racist nativism, Islamophobia and hegemonic discourse have in many ways legitimized the false information and emerging stereotypes that are disseminated by popular culture and the media. From the perspective of working class Sikh youth, who have unduly borne the brunt of such hostility and racial profiling, we learn about their daily lives both in their communities and schools. The youth engaged in identity politics and occupied contradictory hybrid spaces of being neither here nor there. Attempts to transplant religious identities led to personal battles of self definition and transformation. In contrast to the available literature on the Asian American “model minority”, Verma explores the working class experience of South Asian families who face downward economic mobility, limited opportunities, low academic achievement, racism and marginalization from both their communities and the mainstream public. Hidden under the umbrella of the model minority stereotype, the needs of working class South Asian youth are largely compromised as their engagement from school plummets. In the midst of shifting politics of belonging, citizenship and nation-building, the reader is drawn to listen to the personal stories, hopes and dreams of youth who face uncertain realities and doubts about the grandeur of the “American dream”.

      • Education

        Citizenship Education

        The British Muslim Perspective

        by Al-Refai, N.

        This important book draws together and integrates several strands in educational policy. It offers a perspective on the role of Britain's increasing Muslim population, and the need for Citizenship Education for all school pupils which can allow young Muslims to integrate in ways which meet their legitimate needs for expression of religious values, and which fosters tolerance in both Muslim pupils and in their peers, as well as responsible participation in the wider democracy. The book explains clearly the meaning of education and citizenship in Islam, and argues that the practice of Islam encourages its adherents both to tolerate other religions, and the societies in which Islamic minorities have settled. In this account, there is no logic, morality or theological support for violent acts against the state. However, increasing Islamophobia, misdirected against Muslim youth in Britain, has forced a reappraisal of identity. This combined with increasing dissatisfaction of Muslim parents on the failure of mainstream schools to tolerate the religious aspirations of their children, has led to the setting up of a number of Muslim schools in Britain. Recent government actions to introduce Citizenship Education in all schools as a means of fostering tolerance and countering political apathy are evaluated in a study of five "best practice" Muslim schools, and five similar schools serving a wider religious population. Results show the general success of Citizenship Education in the Muslim schools studied, and support the argument that Islamic education can support Citizenship Education in socially productive ways. While focussed on Britain, this book is an important comparative study of education, sociology and social policy, and deserves to be read by trainee teachers, undergraduates, and policy makers in the fields of education and social planning.

      • The Arts: General Issues
        September 2017

        The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude

        A Tale of Morality and Appropriation

        by Glenn Harcourt, Pamela Joseph, Francis M. Naumann

        Thoughtful and rigorous, the book provides an excellent survey of contemporary censorship. – Publishers Weekly   This hybrid book examines the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran. Featuring American artist Pamela Joseph’s feminist appropriation of these images as well as Iranian and other Middle Eastern contemporary artists Aydin Aghdashloo (Iran), Boushra Almutawakel (Yemen), Ana Lily Amirpour (Great Britain/USA), Gohar Dashti (Iran), Daryoush Gharahzad (Iran), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Bahman Ghobadi (Iranian Kurdistan), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Hoda Katebi (USA), Simin Keramati (Iran/Canada), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/ Great Britain), Shohreh Mehran (Iran), Houman Mortazavi (Iran), Manijeh Sehhi (Iran), and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran/USA).

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