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unwillingly." They said, "We do come (together), in willing obedience.” (Holy Quran 41:11). “Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” (Holy Quran 21:30). The Holy Quran mentions the expansion of the universe, Allah (S.W) says, “With power and skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of pace.” (Holy Quran 51:47)

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analysts would try to assess the needs of their clients, generate a requirements analysis in some notation that the analyst understood (but not always the client), give that analysis to a programmer or team of programmers, and hope that the final product was the system the client wanted. Some Terms Throughout this book, consider a system to be a combination of software and hardware that provides a solution for a business problem. System development is the creation of a system for a client, the

第59期 Le Luxe Français, par l’artiste pékinoise Xuefei Ji de l’agence G2 Studio. 北京吉图企业形象设计咨询公司艺术家吉雪飞设计的作品《法式奢华》 Dossier 专栏 Avant-propos : Voyage au bout du luxe 前言：奢侈品之旅 聚焦中国奢侈品市场 28 29 30 LE MARCHÉ L’analyse de Roland Berger 34 Living Luxury, l’étude de l’IFOP Asia 36 Les villes secondaires, futur moteur du luxe en Chine 38 Le droit du luxe en Chine : Se contredire, quel luxe ! 40 La culture chinoise et le luxe 41 COMMUNICATION & BRANDING Communication : Mission : « éduquer » le

trembling he came up to a most enormous house that faced a canal on one side and ------y Street on the other. The house was all small apartments inside, and was inhabited by all sorts of working people—tailors, locksmiths, cooks, various Germans, girls living on their own, petty clerkdom, and so on. People kept coming and going, darting through both gateways and across both courtyards. Three or four caretakers worked there. The young man was very pleased not to have met any one of them, and slipped inconspicuously

quickly become as disabling as any chronic physical illness. Perhaps you have experienced overwhelming, unrealistic fears or worry, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive behaviours or post-traumatic stress reactions that have stopped you from living your life as you would like to. All are examples of anxiety running riot, mentally and emotionally crippling us in the process, and a great many suffer from them. If this is how it is for you, or someone you care about, or your days are blighted by

own interests. To call such a view a kind of morality is at least paradoxical, since, in accepting the view, one commits oneself to abandoning the defining feature of morality. Thus, it seems better to say, as does Frankena, that "prudentialism or living wholly by the principle of enlightened self-love just is not a kind of morality."15 Similarly, to say that the first principle of international morality is that states should promote their own interests denies the possibility that moral considerations

Cairns, Felix Pirani and Gervase Fletcher read parts of the manuscript and made helpful comments; various friends and relations, most particularly Jack Goody, John Hope, Jessica Hines and Sam and Joe Gold Hodgkin expressed a wish to see the finished product. Finally, I’m deeply grateful to my wife Jean who has supported the project patiently through writing and revision. To her, and to my father Thomas who I hope would have approved, this book is dedicated. This page intentionally left blank Contents

[to the 16 and ranked them to outline his programme of action for education, organisation of the movement, and eventually jihād.53 jihād, in relation to the other nine Characteristics (khişāl) of the Godly Personality, is the culmination and product of following the Affluents of Faith. In fact, the very aim of all Islamic spiritual education ought to be to produce soldiers to fight jihād for the sake of God.54 The other nine Characteristics, however, should not be neglected even in jihād. They

to live one hundred years, the bat of an eyelid in the planet’s history, which for each of us ends and will always end in death. The end of the world is a repeated experience and is repeated every time a homo more or less sapiens closes his eyes forever. And yet the idea of a vita brevis is so difficult that we often prefer to consider ourselves the absolute beings of an absolute universe. Hence the Atlas reflex: we feel responsible for the world. We are the self-appointed managing directors. Compensatory