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  • The Universal Enemy

    Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity

    by Darryl Li ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a radical departure from conventional wisdom on the topic, The Universal Enemy argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Tatar Empire

    Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia

    by Danielle Ross ...
    An in-depth study of the relationship between the Russian government and its first Muslim subjects who served in the vanguard of the empire's colonialism.In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, ... Read more

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  • A Convergence of Civilizations

    The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

    by Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

    Transmission, Transformation and Communication

    Edited by Stephane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao, Kosugi Yasushi ...
    Series series New Horizons in Islamic Studies
    Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each ... Read more

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  • The War on the Uyghurs

    China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

    by Sean R. Roberts ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Two Hours That Shook the World

    September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences

    by Fred Halliday ...
    Examines the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and also provides a reasoned approach as to what the future may hold. As the dust settled around the devastation of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, a host of questions emerged surrounding the attacks, the motives behind them and their future implications. In Two Hours that Shook the World Fred Halliday expands on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Origins

    by Azeem Ibrahim ...
    More than fifteen years ago after the “War on Terror” was declared, many in the West now feel less secure than ever before. Many security experts believe global jihad is on the rise throughout the West, and yet these same experts do not know how to stop the rising tide. Military action abroad and police action at home have only attended to the symptoms of terrorism, not the cause. The root, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Freedom or Terror

    Europe Faces Jihad

    by Russell A. Berman ...
    In his analysis of Europe's ambivalence toward jihadist terror and the spread of aggressive Islamism, with particular emphasis on the European responses—or lack thereof—to this violent anti-modernism, Russell A. Berman describes how some European countries opt for appeasement and apologetics, whereas others muster the strength to defend their way of life and stand up for freedom. He describes a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Life in Central Asia

    Past and Present

    Edited by Jeff Sahadeo, Russell Zanca ...
    This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Islam in Central Asia

    The challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir

    by Emmanuel Karagiannis ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 and the U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have intensified scrutiny of radical Islamic groups across Central Asia. This books offers one of the first comprehensive studies of the activities of one of the most feared - but least understood - inernational Islamist organizations in post-Soviet Central Asia: Hizb ut ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Jihadist Hotbeds

    Understanding Local Radicalization Processes

    by Arturo Varvelli (a cura di) ...
    Recent analyses reveal that the vast majority of jihadists come from or have some connections with specific areas or districts within different states. They can be labelled as local/regional “hotbeds” of extremism. Molenbeek in Belgium, Gornje Maoče and Ošve in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Minneapolis in the US, Kasserine and Ben Guerdane in Tunisia, Sirte and Derna in Libya, Sinai in Egypt, Pankisi Valley ... Read more

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