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  • Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel

    Local Politics and Rebel Groups

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negotiating political relationships not just with the forces surrounding them, but also within their own ranks. Drawing on case studies from North Africa and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Boko Haram

    The History of an African Jihadist Movement

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. This is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salafism in Nigeria

    Islam, Preaching, and Politics

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Series Book 52 - The International African Library
    The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston argues here, beyond the sensational headlines this group generates, the dynamics of Muslim life in northern Nigeria remain poorly understood. Drawing on interviews with leading Salafis in Nigeria as well as on a rereading of the history of the global ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Islamic Education in Africa

    Writing Boards and Blackboards

    by Cheikh Anta Babou, Liazzat J. K. Bonate, Tal Tamari, Corinne Fortier, Muhammad Sani Umar, Roman Loimeier, Ashley E. Leinweber, Ousseina D. Alidou, Rudiger Seesemann, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Rudolph Ware, Benjamin F. Soares, Noah Butler, Alexander Thurston ...
    Writing boards and blackboards are emblematic of two radically different styles of education in Islam. The essays in this lively volume address various aspects of the expanding and evolving range of educational choices available to Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors from the United States, Europe, and Africa evaluate classical Islamic education in Africa from colonial times to the present ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Hezbollah

    The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God

    by Joseph Daher ...
    Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party’s identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy.Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    by Loretta Napoleoni ...
    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • After the Arab Spring

    How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts

    by John R. Bradley ...
    From the author of the book that uniquely predicted the Egyptian revolution, a new message about the Middle East: everything we're told about the Arab Spring is wrong.When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the West assumed that democracy and pluralism would triumph. Greatly praised author and foreign correspondent John R. Bradley draws on his extensive firsthand knowledge of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Jihad Academy

    The Rise of Islamic State

    by Nicolas Hénin ...
    Translated by Martin Makinson ...
    When you keep repeating that the worst is about to happen, it finally does. The threat of terrorism has caught up with us. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, we have helped fuel radicalization. And we continue to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictators, by refusing to heed the suffering of populations, and by failing to invent counter-speech. What is ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

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  • The Invisible Arab

    The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions

    by Marwan Bishara ...
    The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program "Empire", combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The New Arab Wars

    Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by ... Read more

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  • The Arab Uprising

    The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region's politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the "Arab Spring" are yet to come.An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD