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reinterpretation and application of the twin concepts of muqawama (resistance) and jihad (striving in the name of God)

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The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans

with other seafaring nations near and far

nuanced archaeology

Politics of Public Sector Performance soldering licensing reinterpretation and application of theIt is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or pockets of