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Language: en
Pages: 228
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Fatema Mernissi is a professor of sociology at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. She is the bestselling author of "Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a
Language: en
Pages: 226
Pages: 226
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-05 - Publisher: Basic Books
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociol
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Pages: 240
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