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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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£35,00
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Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain
ISBN: HB: 9781787380035, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a mor...
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£25,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 27 Beauty
ISBN: PB: 9781787380202, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How do we identify and judge beauty? Does it distract us from more pressing questions and issues? Is beauty the handmaiden of privilege? Or can it be found in everyday, ordinary things? Whatever happened to beauty in contempora...
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£14,99
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Qur'an and the Bible Text and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300181326, Yale University Press, May 2018
1032 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Q...
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£30,00
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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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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
ISBN: PB: 9781849049498, ISBN: HB: 9781849040068, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and...
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£14,99
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£27,50
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Boko Haram Reader From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State
ISBN: PB: 9781849048842, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if an...
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£25,00
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Islamist Terrorism in Europe A History
ISBN: PB: 9781849049504, ISBN: HB: 9781849044059, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings and the grisly murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 are stark reminders of the terrorist threat posed by militant Islamist extremism in Europe. Whereas the death of Osama bin Laden a...
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£12,99
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£30,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 26 Gastronomy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049726, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What is halal? Does Islam have a particular flavour? Is culture transferred through gastronomy? In this issue we resist intoxication by wine and soberly sample the culinary delights of the Muslim world – then and now. By explo...
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£14,99
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Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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