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      • Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

        Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) is a world-class publishing house founded on international best practices, excellence and innovation. It strives to be a cornerstone of Qatar’s knowledge-based economy by providing a unique local and international platform for literature, discovery and learning. Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, HBKU Press publishes a wide range of texts including fiction and non-fiction titles, children’s books, collections, and annual reports. In addition, HBKU Press publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly research in the natural and social sciences through academic books, open-access reference materials and conference proceedings. HBKU Press consistently follows international best practices in its publishing procedures, ethics and management, ensuring a steadfast quality of production and a dedication to excellence.

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        UNGKU AZIZ'S VISION OF DEVELOPMENT A MUSLIM'S EXPERIENCE IN THE MODERN TIMES

        by Muhammad Syafiq bin Borhannuddin, Hafizuldin bin Satar

        This book attempts to present the development vision of Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid, or better known simply as Ungku Aziz (1922-2020), in a more comprehensive fashion. Ungku Aziz's vision reflects his commitment as a Muslim as well as a citizen of an emerging Muslim-majority yet a multicultural nation, and his great concern for the underprivileged. This book also attempts to situate Ungku Aziz's vision in its proper historical context, thus providing an insight into a post-colonial debate in Malaysia as well as the views and experience of a modern-educated Muslim in such context.

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        March 2011

        Muslime in der Psychotherapie

        Ein kultursensibler Ratgeber

        by Rezapour, Hamid; Zapp, Mike

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        November 2012

        Islam und Moderne. Die neuen Denker

        by Rachid Benzine, Hadiya Gurtmann

        Intellektualität und Frömmigkeit zu vereinbaren, das ist das Ziel einer ganzen Generation muslimischer Denker. Unabdingbare Voraussetzung dafür ist die Entwicklung einer neuen Hermeneutik der Koraninterpretation, zu der muslimische Gelehrte aus zahlreichen Ländern ihren Beitrag leisten und dafür mitunter Kopf und Kragen riskieren. Ihre Namen sind hierzulande noch kaum bekannt, da die wenigsten ihrer Schriften ins Deutsche übersetzt worden sind. Dennoch findet ihr Beitrag zur Versöhnung des Islams mit der Moderne auch in Deutschland hohe Anerkennung: So war zum Beispiel der 2010 verstorbene gebürtige Algerier Mohammed Arkoun, Professor an der Sorbonne in Paris, Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, desgleichen der ebenfalls 2010 verstorbene Ägypter Nasr Hamid Abu Said. Andere Vertreter, die Benzine in seinem Buch darstellt, sind Fazlur Rahman, Farid Esack (Südafrika), Abdul Karim Sorush (Iran) und Abdelmajid Charfi (Tunesien). Neben dem leidenschaftlichen Engagement für die Sache, der sich diese neuen Denker verschrieben haben und so zu Hoffnungsträgern für viele Muslime geworden sind, beeindruckt die persönliche Opferbereitschaft, die manchem von ihnen abverlangt wurde. Abu Saids Ehe etwa wurde zwangsgeschieden, er erhielt Morddrohungen und mußte ins niederländische Exil flüchten.

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        TIME TO HEAL : A NOVEL

        by Norhafsah Hamid, Maman Rosnan & Husna Abd Rahman

        Hassan, who had lost his twin brother, best friend and partner-in-crime — Hussin — during teenagers due to cancer.   Hassan then further studies medicine and makes friends with Amy and Nieza; and become best friends. Hassan — loves to joke around, tease his friends and coworkers a lot, a gentleman to the point people called him Dr Charmer, and very protective towards his friends especially Amy and Nieza. If a man wants to approach Amy and Nieza, he has to go through Hassan first!   Beneath those witty personalities, Hassan was actually struggling in handling his inner turmoil when it comes to grieving and sadness. When his friend and his teenage patient passed away, Hassan was again at a loss.   He always thought that he needed to be strong for his parents after Hussin passed away — he stopped crying, he stopped expressing his grief, he just ignored the pain. But then he learn, being strong does not mean one should suppress and dismiss his feelings.

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        KETUM DARI PERSPEKTIF PSIKOSOSIAL: MANFAAT ATAU MUDARAT

        by Noor Azniza Ishak, Jamaludin Mustafa, Kamal Ab Hamid, Siti Rozaina Kamsani, Grafik UUM (Illustrator)

        Kratom from a Psychosocial Perspective: An Advantage or A Detriment   Kratom leaves have long been used as a traditional vitality drink ingredient for women who have recently given birth. The leaves are boiled, and the resulting water is consumed to restore vitality, as well as to treat gas congestion in the body and relieve back pain. However, the decoction of kratom leaves has been misappropriated and is being sold to the public.   This book is intended as a guide for policymakers, particularly the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK), in the formulation of appropriate policies or action plans, as well as the necessary enhancements to the extant prevention programmes. This book also suggests an effective information delivery strategy for addressing the issue of kratom water abuse. In addition, this book was written as a resource for the community to learn about the actual phenomenon of kratom water misappropriation in the community today.

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        April 2024

        Dragon Fruit

        Botany, Production and Uses

        by Sisir Mitra, Nigel P. Taylor, Pradyot K. Pathak, Kundan Kishore, Ankita Sahu, Prinya Wongsa, Taner Bozkurt, Özhan Simsek, Joanna Cho Lee Ying, Phebe Ding, Long Haibo, Tang Liangde, Li Huadong, Hamide Gubbuk, Recep Balkic, Lokman Altinkaya, Leila Aparecida Salles Pio, Renato Paiva, Mai Van Tri, Dinh Thi Yen Phuong

        Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a perennial climbing cactus, native to the tropical areas of North, Central and South America. It is suited to tropical and subtropical regions and is commercially grown in an increasing number of countries, including Israel, Australia and the USA. Dragon fruit generates considerable consumer interest because of its exotic appearance and potential health benefits. The fruit is rich in nutrients and phytochemical compounds. It can be eaten fresh or used in the preparation of juices, jellies, jams, etc. The natural bioactive compounds in pitaya have the potential to be exploited in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Increasingly cultivated worldwide, the plant is drought-resistant, easily adapts to light intensity and high temperatures, and has a tolerance to a wide range of soil salinities. With ongoing global warming, dragon fruit has great potential as a new crop for many more countries. This book is a compilation of the current state of knowledge on dragon fruit physiology, cultivation, production technology, postharvest management and processing, and is written by leading international authors.

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      • Peace studies & conflict resolution
        May 2015

        Failed Relations between Hamid Karzai and the United States

        What Can We Learn?

        by Ronald E. Neumann

        The U.S. relationship with Afghan president Hamid Karzai deteriorated from a warm start to suspicion and hostility over the course of Karzai’s term. Intertwining personal and political considerations, this report examines how aspects of the Afghan political culture that is part of Karzai’s life experience, combined with a counterproductive U.S. approach that unnecessarily aggravated the situation, led to a downward spiral of miscommunication and mistrust that continued to the end of Karzai’s presidency in September 2014.

      • The Vertical Graveyard, Book 3: The Well of Darkness

        by Hamid Reza Shahabadi

        Winner of Book of the Year, 2020 Silver Medalist of The Flying Turtle, 2020 Selected by the International Youth Library for The White Ravens Catalogue, 2019   This is where the world of stories meets history, human feelings, impossible choices, and relatable characters. Hamid Reza Shahabadi has done his magic once more: he entangles human fears with hopes and presents to the reader a rollercoaster of adventures, excitements, twists, and a final huge surprise.  In The Well of Darkness, each loose end is tied up so perfectly that all of a sudden, his narrative world makes more sense. Characters finally find their due representation. It has all the elements of a good story, which haunts not only the readers’ minds but also their hearts and for a long time after finishing it, their memory.  This is a great example of an Iranian horror story, which is narrated in alternating times. The protagonist is not just one persona; there are at least two. The book picks up what book two left off, however as the author has mentioned, it can be read as an independent historical horror story. we know that Shakour is not the only one who comes to the world of living; Razi is one of those lost souls who cannot find solace anywhere. He is up to something and here is where Reza’s role become bolder. At the present time, the other protagonist needs answers, if he wants to save the life of an innocent man.  Hamid Reza Shahabadi has clearly put a lot of effort in creating an everlasting work of literature that is appealing to both Iranian children as well as young avid readers from around the world. The Vertical Graveyard has been published in Egypt too.

      • December 2020

        Are We Friends?

        by Hamid Abazari

        Friendship blooms when a mutual affection connects people to each other. This affection can be created by mutually loving anything; in the case of our story, it’s a beautiful little dandelion which carries the news of new friendships across the land. Through its journey, a little rhino, an alligator, a parrot, a zebra, a giraffe and even an elephant follow it to its destination. Once the dandelion reaches home, the animals realize that they have become friends along the way.

      • Red Bar

        by Hamid Rabiee

        This novel deals with current events in Iraq, war, communities and the disintegration of the social fabric. Besides, it refers to the collapse of the city of Baghdad under all those events.   The novel take us through all the Iraqi events following theme of “Farhood” (looting incidents) which accompanied the international forces’ entry and institutions fall. Thus shows the results of the cities’ invasion by countryside and the changes in the structure of the city and its inhabitants. Meanwhile, we follow a story of a boy. The boy enters Baghdad after the End of second Gulf War, looks for his legacy and routs. Instead of that he finds Baghdad is collapsing.

      • al-Farabi

        by Hamid Abdolahian

        The book is a fictional account of Abu Nasr Farabi's life. He was born in 259 in Farab, which is a city in the present Republic of Kazakhstan, and died in 339 in Bilād al-Shām.   The biographies of the great men of science, literature, art and knowledge of this land can be a guide for our generation today. I think that when a teenager reads the biographies of the great men, he can get a correct understanding of his life. Those who were able to acquire the knowledge of time and go beyond it with difficulty. In the era when you had to go a long way to find a book, just like what Abu Nasr did. This is how he suffered a difficult journey to read Aristotle's books.

      • Peace studies & conflict resolution
        January 2016

        Provincial Governors in Afghan Politics

        by Dipali Mukhopadhyay

        The presidency of Hamid Karzai was a significant transition for Afghanistan. This report describes subnational politics—specifically, provincial governorships—over the period in general terms, exploring the gaps between assumptions that drove belief in the possibility of a radically new and improved brand of governance and the realities on the ground. The findings aim to inform a more realistic outlook not only on Afghan politics past and future, but also on subsequent foreign-led interventions to foster improved governance in conflict-ridden countries worldwide.

      • King’s Attitude in Managing Kingdoms

        by Ibn Abi Al-Rabie, Hamed Rabie (Prof.)

        The colonial era was the barrier that separated the Islamic Ummah from its social thought and its cultural subjectivity, so it borrowed an intellectual framework other than its framework, a style other than its style, contents other than its contents, and values ​​other than its values. Political thought has made a head start in this regard, so it came as strange in its language, theories, trends and content. While this happened inevitably and logically following the prevalence of the West and the brutality of Eurocentrism in the science movement, then all other scientific systems collapsed or almost collapsed. Another development occurred represented in the emergence of intellectual resistance to the results of the colonial era and Eurocentrism. We are not exaggerating when saying that Dr. Hamid Rabie was one of the pioneers of resistance in political thought, so he contributed as a researcher, academic professor and thinker with his work to shed light on the Islamic political heritage within the Arab scientific community, as well as forming a group of professors and thinkers in this aspect. His review and commentary on the book (king's attitude) by Ibn Abi al-Rabi 'is his most important and prominent work in this project, so it was the first publication of the project "reviving the work of Professor Hamid Rabie", which Arkan Center for Studies, Research and Publishing is working to bring it to light soon.  In it, Rabee presents a vision of the Islamic political project and its experience in linking scholastic theorizing in political science with the Islamic vision in it.

      • September 2012

        The Almond Tree

        by Michelle Cohen Corasanti

        Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid is however, powerless to save his friends and family. Living on occupied land, his entire village operates in constant fear of losing their homes, jobs, and belongings. But more importantly, they fear losing each other. On Ichmad’s twelfth birthday, that fear becomes reality. With his father imprisoned and his family’s home and possessions confiscated, Ichmad begins an inspiring journey using his intellect to save his poor and dying family. In doing so he reclaims a love for others that was lost through a childhood rife with violence, and discovers a new hope for the future.

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        March 2015

        Islamic Law, Customary Law, and Afghan Informal Justice

        by Hamid M. Khan

        As Afghanistan's nascent democracy works to establish the rule of law across the country, it finds itself contending with the ways that Islamic law converges and diverges from the tribal norms that shape the settling of disputes outside Kabul. Based on surveys conducted in Afghanistan, this report examines the points of tension and agreement between Islamic and customary laws, looking into both of their pasts to suggest a way forward for the Afghan state, particularly in granting greater rights and protections to women.

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