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Recalling the Caliphate Decolonization and World Order
ISBN: PB: 9781849040037, ISBN: HB: 9781849040020, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century, there were expectations that Islam's political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernisation and secularisation in its wake....
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Critical Muslim, Volume 11 Syria
ISBN: PB: 9781849044516, Hurst Publishers, July 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Critical Muslim's" Syria issue approaches the diversity of this rich culture as it is reborn through revolution, tortured by repression, and traumatised by war. Thomas Pierret illuminates the varying positions of Syria's Musl...
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Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent Inside British Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849043014, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide...
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Loyal Enemies British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950
ISBN: HB: 9781849042758, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Loyal Enemies" uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 10 Sects
ISBN: PB: 9781849043953, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Merryl Wyn Davies is appalled by the sectarian divisions in Muslim societies; Yasmin Saikia is angry at the Sectarian violence unleashed in the name of Islam; Ebrahim Moosa suggest the Sunnis, the majority Muslim sect, need a l...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 09 The Maghreb
ISBN: PB: 9781849043946, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Robin Yassin-Kassab has an enlightening sojourn in Morocco; Hicham Yezza examines the role of the Berbers in the Arab Spring; Marcia Lynx Qualey is dazzled by the transformative power of Maghrebi poetry; Louis Proyect spends so...
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System of Life Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849042482, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little understood. "A System of Life" is a pioneering examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic ou...
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Hezbollah The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
ISBN: HB: 9781849043335, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisa...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 08 Men in Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849043175, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! MEN IN ISLAM Ziauddin Sardar – Introduction: The Shadows of Muslims Men Merryl Wyn Davies – The Problem With Men Abdennur Prado – Muslim Masculinities Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Out of this Dead End Kecia Ali – The Omnipresent M...
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Muslim Zion Pakistan as a Political Idea
ISBN: HB: 9781849042765, Hurst Publishers, August 2013
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many, a failed state. "Muslim Zion" cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that it has never been a nation...
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