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  • Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan

    Vanguard of a New Modernity?

    by Amina Jamal ...
    Series series Gender and Globalization
    This book critically examines the feminization of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement for Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia. Through an ethnographic and textual study of Jamaat women elected to local, provincial, and national bodies in Pakistan from 2002 to 2008, Jamal draws attention to the cultural-political forces that enabled these women to become influential within the party and in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora

    Critical Perspectives from Canada

    Edited by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, Maryam Khan ...
    South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora explores how South Asian feminisms challenge exclusionary narratives in the Global North. Conceptualizing “South Asian” as a transnational conjuncture that links diasporic and mainland aspirations and anxieties, the contributors to this collection describe how, at what sites, and in what ways they encounter South Asianness, especially its complicity with ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Sexuality in Muslim Contexts

    Restrictions and Resistance

    Edited by Anissa Helie, Homa Hoodfar ...
    This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for ... Read more

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  • Islam, Justice, and Democracy

    by Sabri Ciftci ...
    Series series Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics
    Justice (al-‘adl) is one of the principal values of the Islamic faith. In Islam, Justice, and Democracy, Sabri Ciftci explores the historical, philosophical, and empirical foundations of justice to examine how religious values relate to Muslim political preferences and behavior. He focuses on Muslim agency and democracy to explain how ordinary Muslims use the conceptions of divine justice—either ... Read more

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  • Beyond Shariati

    Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought

    by Siavash Saffari ...
    Ali Shariati (1933–77) has been called by many the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'. An inspiration to many of the revolutionary generation, Shariati's combination of Islamic political thought and Left-leaning ideology continues to influence both in Iran and across the wider Muslim world. In this book, Siavash Saffari examines Shariati's long-standing legacy, and how new readings of his works ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

    by Leila Ahmed ...

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  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Feminism in Islam

    Secular and Religious Convergences

    by Margot Badran ...
    While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture. In this career-spanning collection of influential essays, Margot Badran presents the feminisms that Muslim women have created, and examines Islamic and secular feminist ideologies side by side. Borne out of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • A New Anthropology of Islam

    by John R. Bowen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Islam and Anarchism

    Relationships and Resonances

    by Mohamed Abdou ...
    'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. PuarDiscourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and ... Read more

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  • Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson ...
    After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact of those security measures on the minority groups whose lives are “securitized.”In Religious ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Globalization and Islamism

    Beyond Fundamentalism

    by Nevzat Soguk ...
    Series series Globalization
    Tensions between the West and the Islamic world have reached an all-time high, fueled by caricatures and misunderstandings on both sides. In contrast, as Nevzat Soguk shows, actual histories reveal profound connections across Islamic and Western civilizations. Moving beyond the usual focus on Wahhabi fundamentalism, Soguk highlights the often-overlooked non-Arab forms of Islam in Turkey and in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD