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  • The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan

    Ethnic and Religious Implications in the Greater Middle East

    by Ali Ezzatyar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Amidst changing notions of religion and identity in the modern Middle East, this book uncovers the hidden story of Ahmad Moftizadeh, the nonviolent religious leader of Iran’s Kurds during the Iranian Revolution. The characters of Ayatollah Khomeini and a number of other prominent revolutionaries surface through never before heard first-hand accounts of that era’s events. The author further surveys ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

    by Sandy Tolan ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington PostThe tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author.In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five ... Read more

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  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    by Ian Johnson ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Making of Buddhist Modernism

    by David L. McMahan ...
    A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects and indeed constructs a historically unique modern Buddhism even while purporting to represent ancient tradition timeless teaching or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature Asian as well as Western weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that brings ... Read more

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  • Political Islam in the Age of Democratization

    by K. Bokhari, F. Senzai ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Fathers and Sons

    The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East

    by M. McMillan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book traces the rise of the political dynasty in the Middle East and, in the process, provides the context for the current Arab uprising. The author shows that a father-to-son transfer of power has no basis in Islam, and yet the idea of dynastic power became entrenched in the Middle East. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity

    by D. Ohana ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Iran

    From Theocracy to the Green Movement

    Edited by N. Nabavi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. ... Read more

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  • Dharma

    The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India

    Edited by Veena R. Howard ...
    Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the ... Read more

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  • State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present

    by B. Moazami ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural landscape. The other is that the ulama (religious scholars) have always played a crucial role. This book challenges these assumptions and constructs a new synthesis of the history of state and religion in Iran from 1796 to the present while challenging ... Read more

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  • Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926

    by Kamal Soleimani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other systems of meaning-production, is affected by its historical and political contexts, and the processes of interpretation and religious translation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment

    Heaven and Humanity in Unity

    by A. Chow ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various historical attempts to articulate a Chinese Christianity, comparing the roles that Western and Latin forms of Christian theology have played with the potential role of Eastern Orthodox theology. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD