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Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan
ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Inside the Global Jihad How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9781850658610, Hurst Publishers, November 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raisin...
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£18,99
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Syria at Bay Secularism, Islamism, and "Pax Americana"
ISBN: PB: 9781850658016, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Immediately after the US-led invasion of Iraq, which was opposed by the Syrian government of Bashar al-Asad, there were real fears that Damascus would be next in line for 'regime change'. This perception was reinforced by Washi...
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£19,99
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Sectarianism and Inter-Communal Nation Building in Lebanon
ISBN: HB: 9781850657941, Hurst Publishers, March 2006
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In blood we write your history, Lebanon' was a common sight on the walls of war-torn Beirut in the 1970s and '80s. With the assassination in February 2005 of Rafiq Hariri, the godfather of the 1989 Taif Agreement for National U...
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£30,00
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Between God and the Sultan A History of Islamic Law
ISBN: PB: 9781850658061, Hurst Publishers, March 2006
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Today's discussions on Islam and the place religion should have in society often lead to questions about the Shari'a – Islamic law. Those who work for a political role for Islam demand that the Shari'a must be applied in their...
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£20,00
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Pious Road to Development The Ideology and Practice of Islamist Economics in Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9781850657606, Hurst Publishers, March 2006
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Islamism is often portrayed as a reaction against, or at best a belated accommodation to, modernization. Refuting this dismissive opinion, Bj?rn Utvik explores the movement through the lens of its engagement with social and eco...
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£45,00
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Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
ISBN: PB: 9781850657897, Hurst Publishers, January 2006
318 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where, the press would sometimes have us believe, there exists a near unanimous hostility to the United States. This book, by dint of on the groun...
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£40,00
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