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Force and Fanaticism Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9781849044646, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police), and governs every facet of Sa...
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£30,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 15 Educational Reform
ISBN: PB: 9781849045421, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas argues that educational reform is the biggest challenge facing Muslim societies, Richard Pringle discusses the purpose of education, Abdelwahab El-Affendi suggests ways that Muslim education should be reco...
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£14,99
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From Deep State to Islamic State
ISBN: PB: 9781849045469, Hurst Publishers, June 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In his disturbing and timely political history of the "Deep State" in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre Filiu reveals how the autocracies of Syria, Egypt, and Yemen crushed the democratic uprisings of the "Arab Revolution". They did...
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£20,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 14 Power
ISBN: PB: 9781849044905, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of "Islamic State", Kecia Ali surveys sexual politi...
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£14,99
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Apostates When Muslims Leave Islam
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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£30,00
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Terrains of Exchange Religious Economies of Global Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849044288, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, Hindu nationalists and Japanese imperialists, this book brings to life the local sites of globalisation that transformed Muslim religiosity through the lo...
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£35,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 13 Race
ISBN: PB: 9781849044899, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hassan Mahamdallie argues that racism is twenty-first century's main problem, Shannon Shah detects racial overtones within Islam, Robert Irwin examines race and racism in the Arabian Nights, Hugh Kennedy uncovers the ninth cent...
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£14,99
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Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam
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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£37,50
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Critical Muslim, Volume 12 Dangerous Freethinkers
ISBN: PB: 9781849044523, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar argues that free thinkers are essential for any culture to survive and thrive; Aziz al-Azmeh outlines how Abbasid Culture established freethinking humanism; Oliver Leaman highlights the significance of the twelf...
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£14,99
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Lives in Common Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron
ISBN: HB: 9781849044196, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most books dealing with the Israeli – Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street...
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£25,00
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