Dale Eickelman – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Dale Eickelman. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
2 produkter
2 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 468 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Over the last half-century, the GCC states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also to come to terms with tradition. These pressure points are examined here in a number of comparative studies, and cover among other topics:- higher education as soft power to promote regional or global influence- intense reliance on foreign instructors- citizen entitlements- badu and hadar divisions- gender separation- different visions of language of instruction- marginalization of foreign students and faculty outside work- branch campuses of foreign universities Despite efforts to train and employ nationals, the vast majority of health workers remain non-local, and major challenges remain in fields such as science and technology. Expenditure has not always led to the effective reform of underperforming educational systems, and institutions often fall short of their world-class aspirations. The studies in this book explore ways of making institutions better realise the balance between global and local.
Del 95 - Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Public Islam and the Common Good
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 078 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book explores the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. “Public Islam” refers to the diverse invocations and struggles over Islamic ideas and practices that increasingly influence the politics and social life of large parts of the globe. The contributors to this volume show how public Islam articulates competing notions and practices of the common good and a way of envisioning alternative political and religious ideas and realities, reconfiguring established boundaries of civil and social life. Drawing on examples from the late Ottoman Empire, Africa, South Asia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East, this volume facilitates understanding the multiple ways in which the public sphere, a key concept in social thought, can be made transculturally feasible by encompassing the evolution of non-Western societies in which religion plays a vital role.