The Magnificent Conman of Cairo

The Magnificent Conman of CairoAvailable in English for the first time, this rediscovered classic which Naguib Mahfouz called exceptional," tells a story of fathers and sons, scoundrels and the innocent, set in 1930s Cairo Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Mallim, carpenters apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Mallim stumbles across a stash of money and dutifully hands it in. Khaled cooks up an overly

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Mohammad Fadel's scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to urgent problems relating to the modern reception and re-assessment of Islamic legal doctrine

Eric Rouleau was one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation

This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide range of Habib's interests and contributions

Ahmed Fakhry

radicalized globalization

This book examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation: what the living did to influence the dead and vice versa

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"Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization” offers a comparative analysis of the capital account liberalization process and the variety of policy responses generated among a reduced group of Latin American and Asian countries

Before and during the First World War she was a leading suffragette

structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play

so characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London