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Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9780300211528, Yale University Press, March 2021
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In "Public Freedoms in the Islamic State", he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – in its broad outlines – meets with wide acceptance among Muslims...
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Islamic State in Khorasan Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad
ISBN: HB: 9781849049641, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear tha...
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Victorian Muslim Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West
ISBN: PB: 9781849047043, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Bri...
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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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Loyal Enemies British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950
ISBN: HB: 9781849042758, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Loyal Enemies" uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people...
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Muslims in Indian Cities Trajectories of Marginalisation
ISBN: HB: 9781849041768, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At more than 150 million people, Muslims are the largest Indian minority but are facing a significant decline in socio-economic as well as political terms – while waves of communal violence have affected them over the last twen...
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£30,00
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In Ishmael's House A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
ISBN: PB: 9780300177985, ISBN: HB: 9780300167153, Yale University Press, August 2011
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In this absorbing and eloquent book, Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents...
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£28,50
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Apart Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West
ISBN: PB: 9781849040754, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Muslim minorities comprise an ever-increasing proportion of Europe's population, but are official strategies to thwart home-grown terrorism forcing Muslims further to the fringe of our societies? For every terror suspect we see...
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£17,99
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Hamas in Politics Democracy, Religion, Violence
ISBN: PB: 9781849040297, Hurst Publishers, December 2009
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In January 2006, Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. The inherent contradictions in this situation have left many analysts at...
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£35,00
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Ismailis in Colonial Era Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969
ISBN: HB: 9781850659822, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the early nineteenth century onwards the Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed historical legend, into a small but highly organised temporal and religious movement with g...
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