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The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation : The History and Politics of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya
This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation of the Qurʾān into Indonesian by the Indonesian government. It investigates how the translation was produced and presented, and how it is…
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds : Religion and Society in the Context of the Global
This volume explores what ‘Islam’ is taken to mean in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It considers how people engage and employ varying traditions, institutions, and media in shaping their sense of self and place. It also…
Conquered Populations in Early Islam : Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background…
Exploring Islamic Social Work Between Community and the Common Good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides…
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals Quantification in Global Public Policy
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader…
Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia : Legitimising Governance
This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edited volume…
A Macroeconometric Model for Saudi Arabia : A Case Study on the World’s Largest Oil Exporter
This Open Access Brief presents the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM). KGEMM is a policy analysis tool for examining the impacts of domestic policy measures and global economic and energy shocks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The…
Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries
This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social…
Simulation of Spray Polymerisation and Structure Generation in Spray Drying by Single Droplet Models
Spray polymerisation has a long time been discussed as a promising process, yet, with little knowledge on cause-and-effect relationships between drying and chemical reactions. This work develops a new single droplet model of combined solution drying…
Analysis and Optimisation of a New Differential Steering Concept
The emergence of electric drives opens up new opportunities in vehicle design. For example, powerful in-wheel motors pro -vide unprecedented flexibility in chassis design and are suitable for distributed drive solutions, although implying non-trivial…