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Islam

Allah God in the Qur'an

Reynolds Gabriel Said

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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Islam

Aliites Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali

Dew Spencer

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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Philosophy

Islam

Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"

Al-Ghazali

ISBN: PB: 9780226526478, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his "Incoherence of the Philosophers", "Moderation in Belief" is his most profound work of philosop...

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Political Science

Islam

Al-Qaeda 2.0 A Critical Reader

Holbrook Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781849048101, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 16 June 2011, three days before his sixtieth birthday, Ayman al-Zawahiri was declared the new leader of Al-Qaeda, replacing the fallen Osama bin Laden. The veteran Egyptian jihadist has little of his predecessor's charisma a...

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Islam

Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs

Al-Sha'rani Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn Ali

ISBN: HB: 9780300198652, Yale University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotia...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Marglin Jessica M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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Islam

Middle East

Al-Shabaab in Somalia The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012

Hansen Stig Jarle

ISBN: PB: 9781849045100, ISBN: HB: 9781849042505, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...

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Political Science

Islam

Alawis of Syria War, Faith and Politics in the Levant

Kerr Michael, Larkin Craig

ISBN: HB: 9781849043991, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Throughout the turbulent history of the Levant the 'Alawis – a secretive, resilient and ancient Muslim sect – have aroused suspicion and animosity, including accusations of religious heresy. More recently they have been tarred...

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Asia

Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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Islam

Apostates When Muslims Leave Islam

Cottee Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781849044691, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Apostates" is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Mus...

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