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This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; ci...

Explore Cairo with Confidence: Guide with QR Codes, Maps, and Over 70 ImagesThis comprehensive travel guide gives you everything you need to plan, explore, and experience Egypt's capital. With clear maps, QR codes linking to extra resources, and more than 70 images, this book is designed to help you navigate the city with ease and make the most of your time. From the Great Pyramids of Giza to hidden gems tucked away in local neighborhoods, every chapter is packed w...

This volume of The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations advances the paradigm from intellectual formation to methodological application. It turns to the analytical tools, research approaches, and units of analysis of the Islamic Civilizational Paradigm—demonstrating how a tawḥīdī episteme informs the actual study of global politics.Structured in three parts, this volume elaborates core methodological approaches, including maqāṣid an...

The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations: The Building Process traces the intellectual evolution of a multi-generational scholarly project developed at Cairo University’s Faculty of Economics and Political Science over four decades. Rather than treating Islam as a cultural or political variable, the paradigm positions Islam as a standpoint shaping knowledge production in the discipline. It introduces a tawḥīdī (monotheism-based) epistemic f...

A rigorous and comprehensive examination of Egypt’s desert development over the past half-century, updated for a new paperback editionEgypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of people away fr...

Key themes and arguments presented in "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" include:Empiricism: Hume is known for his empiricist approach to knowledge, asserting that all ideas and knowledge are derived from sensory experiences. He rejects the notion of innate ideas and emphasizes the role of impressions and ideas in shaping human understanding.Impressions and Ideas: Hume distinguishes between impressions, which are the more vivid and direct perceptions we receive through our senses ...

Falling in love is what everyone dreams of. Sustaining that love is the deal-breaker.People can’t sustain something they don’t fully understand, that they don’t know how to nurture, that they don’t know how to develop and grow.The nine Enneagram types reveal that there are nine ways to love and receive love. Shown by both modern science and ancient wisdom, leaning into understanding oneself and others through the Enneagram leads to loving better and living ...

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist and philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a simplification of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739-1740. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.The end product of his labo...

"Every morning when I awake I greet the Holy Spirit and invite Him to go with me through the day and take the lead in all my affairs, and He does. I say, Good morning Holy Spirit. Let's work together today and I will be Your vessel.' Every evening before retiring I say again, 'It's been a wonderful day working with You, Holy Spirit." -David Yonggi ChoYou can have the same intimate personal relationship with the Holy Spirit that David Yonggi Cho says is at the heart of his effective ministr...

Little by little, the freedoms envisioned by our Founding Fathers and those who struggled for independence are being stripped away. The best guarantee that America's constitutional liberties will continue to be protected is to ensure that all citizens, and especially our children, clearly understand both what those freedoms are and who it is that gave them to us in the first place. This book explains: • The biblical basis upon which America was founded• The influence of Sir William Blackst...

As early as the seventh century, Christians living and ministering in Muslim contexts adapted their language and public witness to Islamic cultural and religious sensitivities. In Islam and the Bible, editors Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant B. Greenham invite leading voices, representing a spectrum of approaches, to explore the issues surrounding “Muslim Idiom Translations” of the Bible. This work will be insightful for students, theologians, missiologists, missionaries, and Bible transl...

Every step you take now either takes you forward or backward. One of the greatest mishaps that can ever happen to a man is to lack an idea of where he is going and how to get there.