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Critical Muslim, Volume 01 The Arabs Are Alive
ISBN: PB: 9781849041904, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the inaugural issue of "Critical Muslim": Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the...
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£14,99
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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300152616, Yale University Press, September 2011
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
"Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity" reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities ins...
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£35,00
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Frontier of Faith Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9781849041836, ISBN: HB: 9781850658542, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defe...
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£30,00
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£45,00
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Countering Al-Qaeda in London
ISBN: PB: 9781849041669, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book presents an inside account of two pioneering projects in London where Muslim community groups worked in partnership with police to reduce the influence of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism. One project empowered London Musl...
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£22,00
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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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£18,99
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£28,50
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Cosmopolitans and Heretics New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849041294, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this attention is generally limited to the political realm and often even further confined by constrict...
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£35,00
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Islam without a Veil Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation
ISBN: HB: 9781597977319, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2011
228 pp., 23x15 cm
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have wo...
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£18,00
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Prophecy in Islam Philosophy and Orthodoxy
ISBN: PB: 9780226702858, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 20x13 cm
This highly regarded volume was the first to explore the doctrine of prophetic revelation, a critical and definitive area of Islamic religious and political thought. In it, the esteemed Islamic scholar Fazlur Rahman traces the inception of this doctr...
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£19,50
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My Life with the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781849041522, ISBN: HB: 9781849040266, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. "My Life with the Taliban" offers a co...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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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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