The Rhetoric of Sobriety Natasha Innocenti

The Rhetoric of Sobriety Natasha InnocentiExplains the prohibition of alcohol in Islam using a wide range of materials from the early Islamic period. Why does Islam condemn wine and other alcoholic beverages? The complexity behind this simple question is examined in The Rhetoric of Sobriety. Drawing on an array of revelatory, legal, historical, and exegetical materials (both Sunni and Shi'ite) from the early Islamic period, and contrasting them with comparable Judaic and Christian works from

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Most media coverage and research on the experience of Palestinians focuses on those living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip

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and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates

The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organisation of Kourion on the south coast of Cyprus

Presents the first book-length examination of both the biological and cultural factors in human sexuality

in order to design and validate rational approaches to manipulating microbiomes to optimise health

Explores the underlying assumptions of environmental studies and the need for a new paradigm for understanding our world

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Where do social movements start