Teacher Development Over Time: Practical Activities for Language Teachers addresses teacher learning over the span of the careers of both novice and experienced teachers in English Language Teaching (ELT). It is designed to a) help novice ELT teachers to see the ways in which their learning may open up careers and communities over a professional life span; and b) support experienced ELT teacher…
Author: Miriam Hoexter This study depicts the history of the waqf endowments in Algiers dedicated to the poor of Mecca and Medina over the last 170 years of Ottoman rule. It is one of the first studies of a major public foundation based on its own registers. Its main themes are: the foundation's growth, its benefactors, the evolution of its patrimony, its administration, managerial policies …
Editor: Orkhan Mir-Kasimov What are the mechanisms of change and adaptation in Islam, regarded as a living organism, and how do they work? How did these mechanisms preserve the integrity of Muslim civilization through the innumerable hazards, divisions and devastations of time? From the perspective of history and intellectual history, this book focuses on a significant, though still largely …
OVERVIEW: TInterprets and contextualizes significant modern commentaries on the Qur'an Focuses on five essential issues: scriptural supercessionism, exclusive salvation, charges regarding the Jewish and Christian falsification of revelation, criticisms over divine sonship and the Trinity, and cautions or prohibitions regarding the taking Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates …
Author's preface to the English translationPrefaceIntroductionI The development of the Syrian system of autonomous lordships (c.1070-1099)The system of autonomous lordships before the First Crusade (c.1070-1099)Frankish-Muslim alliances and treaties during the First Crusade (1097-99)II Relations between the Frankish, Turkish and Arab states in the period of the Syrian autonomous lordships (1098…
About the Book Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator—by using social media to connect with peers across the country and even across the globe—will gre…