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Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels
ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
ISBN: PB: 9780226746951, ISBN: HB: 9780226746814, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftones
Today it seems the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, are hardening. Daily editorials compare the contemporary arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711", warn...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet
ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...
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£15,00
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£76,00
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Christmas and the Qur'an
ISBN: PB: 9781909942387, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The familiar and heartwarming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus. It is also a story that unites Christianity and Islam – two faiths that have often been at odds with each other. The accounts of the Nativ...
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£12,99
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Aliites Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali
ISBN: PB: 9780226648019, ISBN: HB: 9780226647968, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Citizenship is salvation", preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali's message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, on...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Islam and World History The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
ISBN: PB: 9780226584782, ISBN: HB: 9780226584645, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Knot of the Soul Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
ISBN: PB: 9780226465081, ISBN: HB: 9780226464923, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the so...
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£28,00
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£90,00
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Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies
ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...
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