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Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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Middle East

Islam

Future of Iran's Past Nizam al-Mulk Remembered

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849048200, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Future of Iran's Past" is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), celebrated Persian vizier and stalwart figure of power and authority in medieval Islamic society. He became the de facto ru...

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Islam

Jihad and Dawah Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah

Yasmeen Samina

ISBN: HB: 9781849047104, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah (JuD), since the early 1990s. Linking the group's narratives to the process of Islamisation...

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Christianity

Year of the Sword The Assyrian Christian Genocide: A History

Yacoub Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781849046428, Hurst Publishers, August 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopo...

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Middle East

Islam

Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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