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Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...
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£52,00
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Qatar and the Arab Spring
ISBN: HB: 9781849044332, Hurst Publishers, November 2014
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Qatar and the Arab Spring" offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari po...
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£37,50
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Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...
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Among the Ruins Syria Past and Present
ISBN: HB: 9781849044004, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. "Among the Ruins" blends history, memoir and repo...
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Beyond the Arab Spring The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849043472, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and inchoate system that redefines sources of aut...
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£25,00
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Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
ISBN: PB: 9781849043113, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, whic...
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£27,50
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Pashtun Question The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849042925, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pa...
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£35,00
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Afghan Way of War Culture and Pragmatism: A Critical History
ISBN: PB: 9781849043762, ISBN: HB: 9781849041065, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Included in the narrative are the wider Pashtun population that lived astride the British Imperial/Pakistan border, not just those Pashtuns resident in the modern state of Afghanistan. The literature on the Afghan wars and fro...
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£30,00
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...
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Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm
"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...
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