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  • Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia

    by Charles E. Farhadian ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to ... Read more

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    The Rise of ISIS

    by Joby Warrick ...
    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.“Gripping. . . . For readers interested in the roots of the Islamic State and the evil genius of its godfather, there is no better book to begin with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Preachers of Hate

    Islam and the War on America

    by Kenneth R. Timmerman ...
    Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make sense of the Arab world.Most Americans will be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Smuggled Stories from the Holy Land

    by Carmen Taha Jarrah ...
    Carmen Jarrah's travel involves trying to unravel the conundrums of Arab life in Palestine/ Israel. She has compressed three extensive trips into her Smuggled Stories, exploring aspects of Israeli and Palestinian peace groups and their often agonizing confrontations with the military. A grim reality. Yet the dauntless Palestinian story shines through - a love of the land, an ancestral home ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Leisurely Islam

    Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

    by Lara Deeb, Mona Harb ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Shattering Empires

    The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908–1918

    by Michael A. Reynolds ...
    The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Encountering Islam

    Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca

    by Paul Auchterlonie ...
    Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the fascinating story of one ... Read more

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  • A History of Islam in America

    From the New World to the New World Order

    by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri ...
    Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Jerusalem

    Idea and Reality

    Edited by Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad ...
    Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today’s headlines. With an aura that transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself embodies different levels of reality – indeed, different realities altogether – for both observers and inhabitants. There is the real Jerusalem, a place ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islam

    by Abraham L. Udovitch ...
    From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories. In the case of the early centuries of the Islamic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The New Arab Man

    Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

    by Marcia C. Inhorn ...
    Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a ... Read more

    $38.19 USD