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Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels
ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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Britain and Islam A History from 622 to the Present Day
ISBN: HB: 9780300234947, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.
In this broad yet sympathetic survey – ranging from the Crusades to the modern day – Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultural encounters between Britain and Islam. He looks, for instance, at how reactions against the Crusades led to A...
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£25,00
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Global Sufism Boundaries, Structures and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781787381346, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global p...
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£35,00
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Knot of the Soul Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
ISBN: PB: 9780226465081, ISBN: HB: 9780226464923, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the so...
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£28,00
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£90,00
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Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...
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£30,00
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For Humanity or for the Umma? Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs
ISBN: HB: 9781849044325, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistanc...
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£40,00
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Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9781849042512, Hurst Publishers, June 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While in the West 'the Caliphate' evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and the removal of long-standing dictators i...
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£19,99
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Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...
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£36,00
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