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Global Mufti The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
ISBN: PB: 9781850659396, Hurst Publishers, November 2008
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! An outstanding legal scholar, an Islamist activist and a renowned host of al-Jazeera's most popular religious programme, "Sharia and Life", Yusuf al-Qaradawi is one of the best-known and most controversial figures of contempora...
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£18,99
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Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf
ISBN: HB: 9781850659280, Hurst Publishers, November 2008
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Persian (or Arab) Gulf countries produce about 30 per cent of the planet's oil, and keep in the ground around 55 per cent of its crude oil reserves, hence the stability of the region's autocratic regimes is vital to the wor...
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£55,00
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Kingdom Without Borders Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious and Media Frontiers
ISBN: PB: 9781850659426, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From Tangier to Jakarta, and from Western capitals to those of the Arab world, Saudi Arabia has confirmed its status as a kingdom without borders. Its political influence, religious expansion and media empires are now applauded...
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£30,00
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Africa's "Agitators" Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939
ISBN: PB: 9781850659365, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
496 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The period between the two World Wars were the peak years of the colonial empires, but they were not unchallenged. Individuals and organisations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contribu...
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£30,00
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Terrorist in Search of Humanity Militant Islam and Global Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781850659464, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
224 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! A global society has come into being, but possesses as yet no political institutions of its own. In his new book, Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, like that of Al Qaeda, achieve meaning in this institutional vac...
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£18,99
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Russia and the Balkans Foreign Policy from Yeltsin to Putin
ISBN: HB: 9781850658481, Hurst Publishers, September 2008
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Russian leaders have always considered the Balkans to be an area of special Russian interests. After the end of the Cold War, the region again became the focus of attention with the violent break-up of federal Yugoslavia, as Mo...
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£45,00
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Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at History, Belief, Practice
ISBN: HB: 9781850659167, Hurst Publishers, September 2008
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the first scholarly appraisal of the teachings, beliefs and lifestyle of the Ahmaddiya Jama'at, an Islamic reform group founded in nineteenth-century India that has millions of follows worldwide. To the great annoy...
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£35,00
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Islam in Inter-War Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781850658788, Hurst Publishers, September 2008
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the enormous literature on the Muslim world, one of the few gaps in our knowledge is the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, an imbalance this book aims to address. The Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-19...
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£50,00
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China Returns to Africa A Superpower and a Continent Embrace
ISBN: PB: 9781850658863, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The geopolitical landscape of contemporary China-Africa relations has provoked wide media interest. After being conspicuously overlooked during the G8's purported 'Year of Africa', the topic generated wider debate in the build-...
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£25,00
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Understanding Somalia and Somaliland Culture, History, Society
ISBN: PB: 9781850658986, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cu...
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£20,00
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