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Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet
ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...
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£15,00
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£76,00
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Islam and World History The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
ISBN: PB: 9780226584782, ISBN: HB: 9780226584645, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
ISBN: HB: 9781849049689, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the...
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£45,00
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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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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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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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Islamism A History of Political Islam from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of Isis
ISBN: PB: 9780300230963, Yale University Press, October 2017
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 8 pp. black&white
A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region's primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military est...
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£14,99
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In Their Own Words Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
ISBN: HB: 9781849045728, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated...
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£40,00
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Islam After Liberalism
ISBN: PB: 9781849047012, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilisational fault-line...
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£20,00
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Inside the Islamic Republic Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran
ISBN: PB: 9781849044837, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The socio-political landscape of Iran. Since 1989, the internal dynamics of change in Iran, rooted in a panoply of socioeconomic, cultural, institutional, demographic, and behavioral factors, have led to a noticeable transition...
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£25,00
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