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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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£30,00
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Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
ISBN: HB: 9780300203691, Yale University Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21x14 cm
Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide?ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of Go...
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£65,00
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Many Rivers, One Sea Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy
ISBN: PB: 9781849048743, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired assassinations and terrorist attacks. In July 2016, the world's attention fell upon a cafe in a leafy Dhaka neighbourhoo...
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£17,99
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To the Mountains My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781787380110, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
340 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan...
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£20,00
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"Infidel Within" Muslims in Britain Since 1800
ISBN: PB: 9781849049474, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
456 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years – though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of thei...
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£14,99
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Critique of Religious Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...
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£80,00
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Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"
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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£32,50
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Lost Islamic History Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
ISBN: PB: 9781849046893, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and...
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£9,99
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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
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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£50,00
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Storied Sage Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha
ISBN: HB: 9780226286389, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has...
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£32,00
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