This highly informative book examines the form and process of infrastructure integration across the Asian continent. Colin Turner analyses key sub-regions to demonstrate how connectivity has been historically limited, as well as crucial opportunities for improvement.Chapters investigate examples of formal regional integration agreements across Eurasia, including East and South Asia and Gulf-Co-operation Council states. Turner identifies how fractious relations and an erratic politi...

The Qur'an Revealed is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, The Epistles of Light. In discussing a wide range of themes, from Divine unity to causation, from love to spirituality, from prophethood to civilization and politics, Colin Turner invites the reader into Nursi's conceptual universe, presenting the teachings of arguably the Muslim worl...

This is the third edition of the widely respected text International Business, which offers a comprehensive yet critical overview of the phenomenon of globalisation and its impacts on key aspects of the business environment as it fundamentally alters corporate strategy.This updated edition covers the core international business topics and themes, including multinationals, internationalisation, and international market entry, as well as a new focus on risk, business models,...

Now in its second edition, Islam: The Basics provides an introduction to the Islamic faith, examining the doctrines of the religion, the practises of Muslims and the history and significance of Islam in modern contexts. Key topics covered include:the Qur'an and its teachingsthe life of the Prophet Muhammadgender, women and IslamSufism and Shi’ismIslam and the western worldnon-Muslim approaches to Islam....

One of the core functions of any successful business is the ability to manage and adapt to risk. In a global environment characterised by complexity, it is vital to be able to understand where risk lies and how it impacts upon business.This textbook presents a series of meta-level trends, including as geo-political risks, climate change, and technology, and explores how they are forming and reshaping the risk environment of business. Using a mix of micro and macro level analysis, s...

This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to the largely alien doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism; the concomitant extirpation of Sufism and philosophy; and the gradual rise of the 'faqih' or jurist.

Exploring how infrastructure is - and can be - used by states as part of their territorial strategy, this timely book examines how core economic infrastructures including transport, energy, information and water support states' territorial objectives. Colin Turner analyses each of these infrastructures, looking at the main adaptive tensions acting both upon them and upon national infrastructure systems (NIS) as a whole.Offering a holistic view on NIS, the book deciphers how states ...

As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their territorial needs and preferences. This reflects a strategic approach to state infrastructuring as nations seek to utilise these physical systems to support and enhance their territoriality. Providing a thorough examination through the lens of economic infr...

The third edition of European Business is published at a time of turbulence in Europe. This uncertainty puts Europe's unique business environment at risk.Key features of the new edition include:assessments of how individual member states affect the integration process and bring diversity to European business;new material on the links between Europe and the World’s other main regions, including emerging economies;new case studies on topics ...

However cliched it may sound, illness always has the potential to be a blessing. For like all forms of communication from our Creator, illness is telling us certain things in certain ways. It may be telling us to slow down and to live life less hectically. It may be telling us that we are not eating healthily, or sleeping enough, or getting the amount of exercise that we need to remain healthy. Depending on its seriousness, it may be telling us that a complete 'life overhaul' is necessary....

The Creator says, 'Fasting is Mine'. And by fasting, here, we mean the wider practice of self-denial that is practised Ramadan, when we deny our lower self - our nafs - the freedom to derive certain sensual pleasures wherever and whenever it desires. Fasting is loved by the Creator more than any other form of worship in Islam.Fasting in Ramadan is thus the key to true, sincere, comprehensive, and universal gratitude. This is because at other times fo the year, most people who are relativel...

Taking a realist approach, this insightful book looks at the forces shaping the evolution of global infrastructure networks. As the international economy globalises, there is an emergent need for national systems to adapt and integrate to form a global system.The authors expose the move to interconnect state infrastructures as a strategy to support and enhance states' territoriality. Examined through the lens of economic infrastructure (including transport, energy and information) ...