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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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Buddhism

Amaravati The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context

Shimada Akira, Willis Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780861592074, Casemate, British Museum Press, October 2016
152 pp., 29x21 cm, 170 illus.

Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stupa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha fr...

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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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Christianity

Jewish Studies

Age of Secrecy Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800

Jutte Daniel, Riemer Jeremiah

ISBN: HB: 9780300190984, Yale University Press, July 2015
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this engrossing, vivid,...

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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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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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Contemporary Art

Other

Art of Secularism The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India

Zitzewitz Karin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042956, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art wit...

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