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Islam

Digital World War Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy

Ullah Haroon

ISBN: HB: 9780300231106, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Social media has dominated the discourse surrounding recent events in the Muslim world – from the seismic events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, to ISIS's slick online recruitment and digitally documented campaign of terror, to the ongoing civi...

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History of Art

Islam

By the Pen and What They Write Writing in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228243, Yale University Press, September 2017
318 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted...

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Middle East

Islam

Black Banners of Isis The Roots of the New Caliphate

Wasserstein David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228359, Yale University Press, September 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambi...

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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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Islam

Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God's Name Welcoming in God's Name

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300223620, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm

<p>A groundbreaking examination of a crucial concept in Islamic thought and tradition from an author noted for her work on interfaith and intercultural dialogue Considering its prominent role in many faith traditions, surprisingly little has been wri...

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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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Islam

Clerics of Islam Religious Authority and Political Power in Saudi Arabia (Eighteenth-Twenty-first Centuries)

Mouline Nabil, Rundell Ethan S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178906, Yale University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Followers of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab', often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement...

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Christianity

Islam

Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...

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Islam

Quiet Revolution The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

Ahmed Leila

ISBN: PB: 9780300181432, Yale University Press, June 2012
360 pp., 21x14 cm

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, ho...

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