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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

    $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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  • 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

  • Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh

    by M. Omidsalar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh. ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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

  • Why the West Fears Islam

    An Exploration of Muslims in Liberal Democracies

    by J. Cesari ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Jocelyne Cesari examines the idea that Islam might threaten the core values of the West through testimonies from Muslims in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the US. Her book is an unprecedented exploration of Muslim religious and political life based on several years of field work in Europe and in the United States. ... Read more

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  • Killing Orders

    Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide

    by Taner Akçam ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidencesurrounding it. This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard ... 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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  • Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief

    by A. Romirowsky, A. Joffe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. Using archival data, oral histories, and biographical accounts, it provides a detailed look at internal decision-making in an early non-governmental organization. ... 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