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Fragile Politics Weak States in the Greater Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849044820, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 2011 Arab uprisings precipitated the relatively quick collapse of a number of Middle Eastern states once perceived as invincible. The Tunisian and Egyptian states succumbed to revolutionary upheavals early on, followed by t...
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Army of Afghanistan A Political History of a Fragile Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781849044813, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army's development within...
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Trading Worlds Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers
ISBN: PB: 9781849043540, ISBN: HB: 9781849043632, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Trading Worlds" is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict tr...
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Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes
ISBN: HB: 9781849045087, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid...
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£40,00
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Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans
ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...
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Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia
ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...
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Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables
How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...
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£34,00
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Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...
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Audacious Ascetic What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About Al-Qaeda
ISBN: PB: 9781849044677, ISBN: HB: 9781849044844, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. "The Audacious Ascetic" is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic c...
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£22,00
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£55,00
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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780226257723, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table
Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was incr...
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