Colin Turner

Niẓāmī Ganjavī

Nizami

The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God. This is a beautiful production, and it includes a final chapter newly translated from the Persian by Omid Safi and Zia Inayat Khan.

Layla and Majnun

Ḥusayn ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Sātir

Shaykh Ḥaydar Ḥab-Allāh

التشيع والتحول في العصر الصفوي

Los Angeles, California: A woman recorded in a series of photographs starting in 1899 hasn't aged a day by 1946, the year of her most compelling picture. A cosmetic surgeon discovers her image in 1974 and exposes a boy to the mystery. The child of four, by 2019, is a grown-up artist who renounces the figure, depicts only objects and doesn't know why. The answer lies at the heart of a horror and the dawn of a city more than a century earlier.

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Now in its second edition, Islam: The Basics provides an introduction to the Islamic faith, examining the doctrines of the religion, the practises of Muslims and the history and significance of Islam in modern contexts. Key topics covered include:the Qur'an and its teachings the life of the Prophet Muhammad gender, women and Islam Sufism and Shi'ism Islam and the western world non-Muslim approaches to Islam.With updated further reading, illustrative maps and an expanded chronology of turning points in the Islami.

Islam: The Basics

Paul Luft

Theology and philosophy. Vol. 2

Shi'ism

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This book is based on the premise that the increasing interdependence of the international economy requires supporting physical infrastructure to make it work. The authors have accordingly developed an integrative framework drawn from international political economy and corporate strategy literature to examine the interface between public policy and corporate strategy in network development within the context of the European Union's trans-European network (TENs) initiative.

Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks

The No. 1 responsibility of a CEO is to introduce strategic Game-Changers that attract, create and retain customers that repeatedly return, refer, recommend and reinforce reputations. These 88 concise notes support fulfilment of that responsibility. Being a CEO is about Guardianship, Stewardship and Responsibility. It involves having the courage to do whatever is demanded, taking the initiative whenever it is required, applying the judgement and experience to back it up, consistently following it through and reliably getting it done. The world has changed. New realities and opportunities are refocusing business into a clearer purpose: To attract, create and retain customers that repeatedly return, refer, recommend and reinforce reputations. From The Back Cover: 'This book shares simple but powerful wisdoms to just become that bit better.' Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever 'Colin Turner's 88 Notes for CEOs is a compelling compilation of insightful thoughts and courageous choices all leaders must make in this challenging consumer centric age.' Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry

88 NOTES for CEOs

A Brave New Business World

Infrastructure represents the core underpinning architecture of the global economic system. Adopting an approach informed by realism, this insightful book looks at the forces for the integration and fragmentation of the global infrastructure system. The authors undertake a thorough examination of the main internationalised infrastructure sectors: energy, transport and information. They argue that the global infrastructure system is a network of national systems and that state strategies exert powerful forces upon the form and function of this system.

The Trans-national Strategy and Policy Interface

Global Infrastructure Networks

In addition to dealing with conventional EU policy areas, the book also covers important issues such as small and medium sized enterprises and the information society which are often excluded from books on EU policy and business.

Policy Challenges for the New Commercial Environment

European Business

With nearly 1500 rich years of history and culture to its name, Islam is one of the world’s great faiths and, in modern times, the subject of increasingly passionate debate by believers and non-believers alike. Islam: The Basics is a concise and timely introduction to all aspects of Muslim belief and practice. Topics covered include: The Koran and its teachings The life of the Prophet Muhammad Women in Islam Sufism and Shi’ism Islam and the modern world Non-Muslim approaches to Islam Complete with a glossary of terms, pointers to further reading and a chronology of key dates, Islam: The Basics provides an invaluable overview of the history and the contemporary relevance of this always fascinating and important subject.

The third edition of European Business is published at a time of turbulence in Europe. This uncertainty puts Europe's unique business environment at risk. Key features of the new edition include: assessments of how individual member states affect the integration process and bring diversity to European business; new material on the links between Europe and the World’s other main regions, including emerging economies; new case studies on topics such as the rise of the BRICs, the energy crisis, enlargement and the Euro. The book retains popular pedagogical features to help students make sense of a confusing and complex environment. A unique and accessible text, the book is ideal reading for students of European and International Business and important additional reading for those interested in European politics and economics.

As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their territorial needs and preferences. This reflects a strategic approach to state infrastructuring as nations seek to utilise these physical systems to support and enhance their territoriality. Providing a thorough examination through the lens of economic infrastructure, the book addresses the forces of integration and fragmentation in global networks.This book explores the trend towards the development of regional infrastructure systems within the context of territorial strategy. Regional systems emerge out of states seeking to position themselves within the international system. Colin Turner identifies the diverse processes that are driving regional infrastructures, as well as examining the formal and informal patterns of integration that are shaping developments. This book is ideal for international political economy and regional development scholars who seek an advanced understanding of current regional infrastructure systems. It will also serve as a vital tool for practitioners who need to understand the implications for policy-making.

The Political Economy of Regional Infrastructure

Regional Infrastructure Systems

At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.

Territoriality and the National Infrastructure System

The Infrastructured State

Invaluable for vocabulary building, essay-writing and specialised translation, caters for all your Persian language needs in one volume, and is designed to make word learning a pleasure rather than a chore.

فرهنگ موضوعی فارسی - انگلیسی

This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to the largely alien doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism; the concomitant extirpation of Sufism and philosophy; and the gradual rise of the 'faqih' or jurist.

The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran

Islam Without Allah?

Playing With Time

The Qur'an Revealed is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, The Epistles of Light. In discussing a wide range of themes, from Divine unity to causation, from love to spirituality, from prophethood to civilization and politics, Colin Turner invites the reader into Nursi's conceptual universe, presenting the teachings of arguably the Muslim world's most understudied theologian in a language that is accessible to both expert and interested layperson alike.

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