Black Morocco is divided into two parts. The paired chapters of part 1 consider slavery within the broad Islamic legal and moral framework‚ on the one hand‚ and‚ on the other‚ within a specifically North African and Moroccan context during the medieval and early modern periods. Chapter 1 examines legal and moral perspectives on slavery in the Qur’an‚ ḥadīth literature‚ and Sunni legal traditions. El Hamel argues that interpreters of Islamic law chose to accommodate existing institutions of slavery
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Bill Crow has compiled a great collection of stories. This book looks into the personalities and humor of the Jazz world. Being a jazz player himself‚ Crow is obviously familiar with the life of a Jazz musician‚ and he has written down some hilarious tales that Jazz players have passed on to one another. This book shows how the jazz world as it really is. The entire book is filled‚ page by page‚ with hilarious stories of pranks‚ goofs‚ getting hired‚ getting fired‚ stuff that happened while on the
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The Siege by Helen Dunmore Chapter 17 Summary The chapter begins with Anna sharing how she feels about winter and the snow. Anna has always loved the first snowfall of winter. She knows as soon as dawn comes that it’ll be today. The sky remains dark‚ with a yellow tinge to the clouds. The light has a sharp‚ raw edge. Everything is waiting‚ silent and expectant. Snow will come. She thinks the snow will wipe away all mistakes. Light will stream upwards from the immaculate white of the ground.
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In Chapters 13 and 14‚ Rivoli follows the T-shirt to its “final” stage of life. Surprisingly‚ it is at this final stage that it is the most real and globalized market. Huge multinational corporations do not dominate this part of the T-shirt’s life‚ but it is the personal relationships that come with small family businesses‚ which thrive in the industry of transporting America’s unwanted clothing to the poorer countries of the world. Rivoli talks about the snowflake effect‚ which emerges as each item
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Chapter 1: Dinosaurs (Introduction) Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals belonging to the family of Dinosauria. The term “dinosaur” originated from the Greek words “deinos” which means fearfully great and “sauros” which means a lizard. The term “dinosaur”‚ was coined in 1982 by Richard Owen and was meant to refer to dinosaurs’ impressive size rather their scary appearance. Dinosaurs are considered to be the biggest animals to ever walk on Earth. They lived on every continent‚ including Antarctica
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Learner Journal 4: Famine: The Irish experience 900- 1900. What is the reading about? This week’s reading is a chapter is taken from the book ‘Famine: The Irish Experience 900 -1900’. The chapter is titled ‘Conclusion: Famine and Irish History. The author highlights the state the country was in before famine. Clarkson adds that all Famines in Ireland was a result of hundreds of years of starvation. In this text the author aims to explain the due course up to the Great Famine. The author also aims
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event in the Giver comes early on in the book. Jonas’s father brings the struggling newchild Gabriel home to spend nights with Jonas’s family. Lily says that Gabriel has “funny eyes” like Jonas both boys have pale lightish eyes‚ while most people in the community have darker eyes. At this point lily is being quite rude and In their society it is unacceptable to call attention to all the ways people are different. Another major event occurs in the same chapter and happens almost immediately after his
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I think that before reading this book I was under the impression that productivity was always a big goal of agriculture‚ and that with increased production that profit would naturally increase. Modern farming always to me seemed to be centered on the need to increase profits to establish
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The chapter comes from a book titled‚ “Big Chicken” by Maryn McKenna. Chapter 1 of the book talks about how the poultry industry transitioned from antibiotic use to industrial chicken and the outcomes. This is a story about a man named Mr. Schiller who is known to be athletic and healthy. Surprisingly one day Mr. Schiller became ill and needed to be hospitalized. After some recall Mr. Schiller concluded that he had been food poisoning after eating fast food. Doctor diagnosed Mr. Schiller with
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Chapter two outlines key differences between the Japanese and the American soldier’s priorities during times of war‚ particularly Japan’s contradictory code of honor. Such a high value is placed on honor in the name of the nation-state and the emperor that
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