Thursday, February 26, 2015

McD's trademark valuation

An interesting paper "Valuation of the McDonald's trademark" was written by William Saluk in 2002. Read it here.



Mac '19
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Monday, February 23, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 6


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 6 - Muslims and Modernity Culture and Society since 1800'. Buku edited by Robert W Hefner.

ROBERT W. HEFNER is Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs,and Professor of Anthropology, Boston University. His previous publications include, as editor, Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia (2008), Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (2005) and, as author, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (2000).

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TNCHI - Vol 6

Contents:

Introduction - Muslims and modernity: culture and society in an age of contest and plurality

Part 1 Social Transformations
New networks and new knowledge - migrations, communications and the re-figuration of the Muslim community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Population, urbanization and the dialectics of globalization; The origins and early development of Islamic reform; Reform and modernism in the middle twentieth century; Islamic resurgence and its aftermath; The new trans-nationalism - globalizing Islamic movements; Muslims in the West - Europe; Muslims in the West - North America; New frontiers and conversion.

Part 2 Religion and Law
Contemporary trends in Muslim legal thought and ideology [Sami Zubaida]; A case comparison - Islamic law and the Saudi and Iranian legal systems; Beyond dhimmihood - citizenship and human rights; The 'ulama' - scholarly tradition and new public commentary; Sufism and neo Sufism.

Part 3 Political and Economic Thought
Islamic political thought; Women, family and the law - the Muslim personal status law debate and in Arab states; Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 revolution; Modern Islam and the economy.

Part 4 Cultures, Arts and Learning
Islamic knowledge and education in the modern age; History, heritage and modernity - cities in the Muslim world between destruction and reconstruction; Islamic philosophy and science; The press and publishing; The modern art of the Middle East; Cinema and television in the Arab world; Electronic media and new Muslim publics.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 5


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 5 - The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance'. Buku edited by Francis Robinson.

FRANCIS ROBINSON is Professor of the History of South Asia in the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Sultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Visiting Professor in the History of the Islamic World, University of Oxford. His previous publications include The Mughal Emperors and the Islamic Dynasties of Iran and Central Asia 1206 1925 (2007), Islam and Muslim History in South Asia (2000) and, as editor, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World (1996).

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TNCHI - Vol 5

Contents:

Part 1 The Onset of Western Domination c.1800 to 1919
The Ottoman lands to the post First World War settlement; Egypt to circa 1919; Sudan, Somalia and the Maghreb to the end of the First World War; Arabia to the end of the First World War; Iran to 1919; Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus to 1917; Afghanistan to 1919; South Asia to 1919; SEA and China to 1910; Africa south of the Sahara to the First World War.

Part 2 Independence and Revival c.1919 to the present
Turkey from the rise of Ataturk; West Asia from the First World War; Egypt from 1919; Sudan from 1919; North Africa from the First World War; Saudi Arabia, southern Arabia and the Gulf states from the First World War; Iran from 1919; Central Asia and the Caucasus from the First World War; Afghanistan from 1919; South Asia from 1919; SEA from 1910; Africa south of the Sahara from the First World War; Islam in China from the First World War; Islam in the West.


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Sunday, February 15, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 4


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 4 - Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century'. Buku edited by Robert Irwin.

Robert Irwin is senior research associate of the history department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His previous publications include For lust of knowing: The Orientalists and their enemies(2006), Night and horses and the desert: An anthology of classical Arabic literature (1999) and The Arabian Nights: A Companion (1994).



TNCHI - Vol 4

Contents:

Part 1 Religion and Law
Islam [Jonathan Berkey]; Sufism; Varieties of Islam [Farhad Daftary]; Islamic law - history and transformation; Conversion and the ahl al dhimma; Muslim societies and the natural world [Richard W Bulliet].

Part 2 Societies, Politics and Economies
Legitimacy and political organisation: caliphs, kings and regimes; The city and the nomad [Hugh Kennedy]; Rural life and economy until 1800; Demography and migration; The mechanisms of commerce; Women, gender and sexuality.

Part 3 Literature
Arabic literature; Persian literature; Turkish literature; Urdu literature; History writing; Biographical literature; Muslim accounts of the dar al harb.

Part 4 Learnings, Arts and Culture
Education [Francis Robinson]; Philosophy; The sciences in Islamic societies: 750-1800; Occult sciences and medicine; Literary and oral cultures; Islamic art and architecture; Music; Cookery.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 3


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 3 - The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries'. Buku edited by David Morgan and Anthony Reid.

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TNCHI Vol 3

David O. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author of The Mongols (2nd edition, 2007) and Medieval Persia 1040 1797 (1988), and is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.

Anthony Reid, formerly Director, Asia Research Institute and Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, is currently Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University, Canberra. His recent books include Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce (2 vols., 1988 93), Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (1999), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra(2004) and Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia (2010).

Contents:

Part 1 The Impact of the Steppe Peoples
The Steppe peoples in the Islamic world; The early expansion of Islam in India; Muslim India - the Delhi sultanate; The rule of the infidels - the Mongols and the Islamic world; Tamerlane and his descendants - from paladins to patrons.

Part 2 The Gunpowder Empires
Iran under Safavid rule; Islamic culture and the Chinggisid restoration - Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; India under Mughal rule.

Part 3 The Maritime Oecumene
Islamic trade, shipping, port states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries; Early Muslim expansion is South East Asia - eight to fifteenth centuries: Follow the white camel - Islam in China to 1800; Islam in SEA and the Indian Ocean littoral 1500-1800 - expansion, polarization, synthesis; SEA localization of Islam and participation within a global umma - c.1500-1800; Transition - the end of the old order Iran in the eighteenth century.

Part 4 Themes
Conversion to Islam; Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands - c.1000-1500; Commercial structures [Scott C Levi]; Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries - eleventh to eighteenth centuries [Muhammad Qasim Zaman]

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Friday, February 06, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 2


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 2 - The Western Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries'. Buku edited by Maribel Fierro.

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TNCHI -Vol 2

Naribel Fierro is a Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Her previous publications include Al Andalus: Saberes e intercambios culturales (2001), Abd al Rahman III, the first Cordoban caliph, Oneworld (2005), Los Almohades: Problemas y perspectivas (as co editor, 2005) and El cuerpo derrotado: Cómo trataban musulmanes y cristianos a los enemigos vencidos (Península Ibérica, ss. VIII XIII) (as co editor, 2008).


Contents:

Part 1 Al-Andalus and North and West Africa (Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries)
Al-Andalus and the Maghrib (from the fifth/eleventh century to the fall of the Almoravids); The Central lands of North Africa and Sicily, until the beginning of the Almohad period; The Almohads (524-668/1130-1269) and the Hafsids (627-932/1229-1526); The post Almohad dynasties in Al-Andalus and the Maghreb (seven-ninth/thirteenth-fifteenth centuries); West Africa and its early empires.

Part 2 Egypt and Syria (Eleventh Century Until The Ottoman Conquest)
Bilad al-Sham, from the Fatimid conquest to the fall of Ayyubids (359-658/970-1260); The Fatimid caliphate (358-567/969-1171) and the Ayyubids in Egypt (567-648/1171-1250); The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamluk sultanate (648-784/1250-1382) and the Circassian Mamluk sultanate (784-923/1382-1517); Western Arabia and Yemen (fifth/eleventh) century to the Ottoman conquest.

Part 3 Muslim Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire
The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans; The rise of the Ottoman; The Ottoman empire (tenth/sixteenth century); The Ottoman empire: the age of 'political households' (eleventh-twelfth/seventeenth-eighteenth centuries); Egypt and Syria under Ottoman; Western Arabia and Yemen during the Ottoman period;

Part 4 North and West Africa (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Sharifian rule in Morocco (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); West Africa (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); Ottoman Maghrib.

Part 5 Rulers, Soldiers, Peasants, Scholars and Traders
State formation and organization; Conversion to Islam: from the 'age of conversion' to the millet system; Taxation and armies; Trade - Muslim trade in the late medieval Mediterranean world; Overland trade in the western Islamic world (fifth-ninth/eleventh-fifteenth centuries); Trade in the Ottoman lands 1215/1800; The 'ulama'.

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Monday, February 02, 2015

The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 1


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1 - The Formation of the Islamic World Sixth to Eleventh Century'. Buku edited by Chase F Robinson.


TNCHI Vol 1
Content:

Introduction
Part 1 The Late Antique Context
The resources of late antique; The late Roman/early Byzantine Near East; The late Sasanian Near East; Pre Islamic Arabia

Part 2 Universalism and Imperialism
The rise of Islam 600-705 [Chase F Robinson]; The empire in Syria 707-763 [Paul M Cobb]; The empire in Iraq 763-861 Tayeb El-Hibri]; The waning empire 861-945 [Michael Bonner]; The late 'Abbasid pattern 945-1050 [Hugh Kennedy]

Part 3 Regionalism
Arabia; The Islamic East [Elton L Daniel]; Syria [Stephen Humphreys]; Egypt; The Iberian Peninsula and North Africa

Part 4 The Historiography of Early Islamic History
Modern approaches to early Islamic history {Fred M Donner]; Numismatics; Archaeology and material culture [Marcus Milwright].

Conclusion - from formative Islam to classical Islam [Chase F Robinson]

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