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Political Science

Critical Muslim, Volume 16 Turkey

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849045438, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Tahir Abbas explores the enigma of modern Islamist Turkey, Ahmet Kuru discovers Turkey's political history, Nagihan Haliloglu gets tangled in Turkish heritage wars, Zeynep Okten has reservations about the country's Islamic fina...

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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

Reading the Qur'an

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: PB: 9781849043670, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Few books have had a more profound impact on human history than the Qur'an. It shapes the beliefs, lives and behaviour of over 1.5 billion Muslims, who regard it as the Word of God, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Speaking di...

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Islam

Literary Criticism

Qur'ans Books of Divine Encounter

Small Keith E.

ISBN: PB: 9781851242566, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 19x19 cm, 58 colour illus.

This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts. A general introduction guides the reader through the Qur'an's entry into the world of late near eastern antiquity, a world...

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Islam

Political Science

Force and Fanaticism Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond

Valentine Simon Ross

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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Islam

Education

Critical Muslim, Volume 15 Educational Reform

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

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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Islam

Political Science

From Deep State to Islamic State

Filiu Jean-Pierre

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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Christianity

Jewish Studies

War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution

Iyigun Murat

ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 14 Power

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

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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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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