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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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Allah God in the Qur'an
ISBN: HB: 9780300246582, Yale University Press, April 2020
344 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
The central figure of the Qur'an is not Muhammad but Allah. The Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture, is marked above all by its call to worship Allah, and Allah alone. Yet who is the God of the Qur'an? What distinguishes the qur'anic presentation of God...
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£20,00
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Muslims and Citizens Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300243369, Yale University Press, April 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe's most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed...
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£40,00
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