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• The founding of Mandinka settlements
• Land and the politics of exclusion
• The power of the wild spirits
• The end of Soninke rule
• Spiritual persistence though change
• The politicization of chieftaincy.

Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin draws on new sources to offer an original approach to the study of land in African history. Documenting the impact of Islamization, the development of peanut production, and the institution of colonial rule on people living along the middle and lower Gambia River, the book shows how these waves of changes sweeping the region after 1850 altered local political and social arrangements, with important implications for the ability of elites to control land. Author Assan Sarr argues for a nuanced understanding of land and its historic value in Africa. Moving beyond a recognition of the material value of land, Sarr's analysis highlights its cultural and social worth, pointing out the spiritual associations the land generated and the ways that certain people gained privileged access to those spiritual powers. By emphasizing that the land around the Gambia River both inspired and gave form to a cosmology of ritual and belief, the book points to what might be considered an indigenous tradition of ecological preservation and protection. Assan Sarr is assistant professor of history at Ohio University.
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• Preface--
• Part 1 Context: Orientation-- The origin of the transformation: the stories we are-- Management consulting as a path to quality and transformation.--
• Part 2 Methodology: Methodology: towards an integral consultant.--
• Part 3 Content: Total quality and transformation-- Quality in Islam-- Comparative management philosophy: an initial outline-- I. theory systems-- Values of I. theory.--
• Part 4 Application: First case study: Royal Society for Conservation of Nature (RSCN)-- Second case study: Al-Quds Paints Company.--
• Part 5 Conclusions: Quality and transformation: I. theory re-visited-- Bibliography-- Appendixes-- Index.
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• Contents: Preface-- Part I Context: Orientation-- The origin of the transformation: our stories-- Management consulting as a path to quality and transformation. Part II Methodology: Methodology: towards an integral consultant. Part III Content: Total quality and transformation-- Quality in Islam-- Comparative management philosophy: an initial outline-- I. theory systems-- The values of I. theory. Part IV Application: Case study
• 1: Royal Society for Conservation of Nature, Amman-- Case study
• 2: Al-Quds Paints Co - Amman/Jordan. Part V Conclusions: Quality and transformation: I. theory re-visited-- Bibliography-- Appendices-- Index.
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The author of this thought provoking addition to "Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series" has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Middle East for 25 years. In "Islamic Values and Management Practices", she acknowledges that businesses and other organizations in the region face urgent concerns in relation to quality and transformation, but argues that these issues might be more appropriately addressed by the application of an Islamic Management Model, rather than the 'Western' one hitherto applied. Over time, a set of management systems based on Islamic values has been developed by the author. These systems recognise the need to build human organizations, socially and politically as well as commercially, and also the recognition that for Muslims, justice is the ultimate value, bringing balance between the individual's soul and spirit on the one hand, and the organization's soul and spirit on the other. This Islamic management model stresses that effectiveness is an outcome of operating efficiently and at the same time unifying the organization's objectives with those of its employees and wider society, and ensuring that at the strategic level the long view is always maintained. Recounting her own personal and business journey, Maqbouleh Hammoudeh presents the outcomes of research that has tested the application of the Islamic Management Model and its ability to deliver the desired quality and transformation outcomes in a major civic or profit making organization. At a time when many practitioners and business educators are seeking new management approaches, this revealing case study sheds light on the evolution of a contemporary theory of management for the Muslim World.
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The author of this thought provoking addition to Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Middle East for 25 years. In Islamic Values and Management Practices she acknowledges that businesses and other organizations in the region face urgent concerns in relation to quality and transformation, but argues that these issues might be more appropriately addressed by the application of an Islamic Management Model, rather than the 'Western' one hitherto applied.
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• Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam
• State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission
• Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power
• Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project
• The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development"
• The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy
• Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile
• Conclusion: water, civilisation and power
• Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies.