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Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781849042703, ISBN: HB: 9781849041683, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! he Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has always attracted widely divergent attention. Scholars have regarded it both as the source of terrorism and, more recently, as the potential harbinger of democratisation. The Muslim B...
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£35,00
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Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9780226010694, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 25x15 cm
The central question of the Arab Spring – what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East – has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has...
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£26,00
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Promise of Salvation A Theory of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226006932, ISBN: HB: 9780226713915, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm
Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that...
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£21,00
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£37,00
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Al-Andalus Rediscovered Iberia's New Muslims
ISBN: PB: 9781849041614, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Iberia is a special place of colliding myths over its Islamic past and the Christian reconquista, the Inquisition and massive expulsion of Muslims and Jews some five centuries ago. Long a land of emigrants and explorers, it has...
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£19,99
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Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849042024, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably l...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 04 Pakistan?
ISBN: PB: 9781849042239, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin Yassin-Kassab asks why Pakistan has not imploded, Taimur Khan breaks bread with the gangsters and bookies of Karachi, Muhammad Idrees...
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£14,99
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Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims, and the Lure of Consumerist Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781850659419, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Widespread confusion over the use of the terms Islamism or Political Islam often obscures the fact that these are not new phenomena and can be traced back more than a century. But like all utopian beliefs, such as Communism, Is...
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£40,00
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849041331, ISBN: HB: 9781849041324, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! During the decade prior to the Arab Spring dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels were established across the Middle East, advocating different forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through thei...
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Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies
ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...
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£28,00
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Quiet Revolution The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
ISBN: PB: 9780300181432, Yale University Press, June 2012
360 pp., 21x14 cm
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, ho...
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