A discussion of how Muslim communities respond to social problems, including the rights of women, charity, education and general social welfare. The essays demonstrate how Islam offers guidance on these and other issues.
This text offers a revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940. Tracing the history of public discourse on gender from the 1890s through to the 1930s, it examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practised differing forms of modernism.
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A new approach to the field of inter-American literary studies that provides insight into Faulkner's impact and other commonalities among key writers of the South and Spanish America.
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The fight to save the utility of antibiotic medicines amid global antimicrobial resistance
The widespread controversy that rocked Nashville in 1960 after a famous civil rights leader was expelled from Vanderbilt University Divinity School
An essential collection of the nineteenth-century’s most popular Swahili poet working in his foundational mashairi form