Astronomy

Wind

Solar power

Islam and power

Table of Contents: “…Aspects of the Islamic Tradition Regarding Power -- Activism and quietism in Islam / Michael Cook -- Towards a Muslim theory of history / Thomas Naff -- The ideologisation of Islam in the contemporary Muslim world / Ali Merad -- Changing concepts of authority in the late ninth/fifteenth and early tenth/sixteenth centuries / Ann Lambton -- pt.2. …”

Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective essays in honour of Albert Hourani

Table of Contents: “…Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot --Water in the international relations of the Middle East : Israel and the Jordan River system / Thomas Naff --Architecture and urban development : Cairo during the Ottoman Period (1517-1798) / André Raymond --The famine of 1915-1918 in Greater Syria / L. …”

International law and Islamic law

Table of Contents: “…A comparative consideration of Western and Islamic fresh water law / Thomas Naff and Joseph Dellapenna -- Pt.7. Universality of Human Rights -- Islamic law/Shari'a, human rights, universal morality, and international relations / Bassam Tibi -- Muslim voices in the human rights debate / Heiner Bielefeldt -- A new perspective on the universality debate : reverse moderate relativism in the Islamic context / Jason Morgan-Foster -- Islam and human rights : beyond the universality debate / Abdullahi A. …”