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  • Minorities in Global History

    Cultures of Integration and Patterns of Exclusion

    Edited by Holger Weiss ...
    Series series Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches
    This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history. Taking transnational, transregional and comparative approaches, it explores narratives of inclusion and exclusion both conceptually and through case studies.Exploring examples of marginalization in Imperial Russia, early-20th century Korea, WWII China and Postcolonial Africa amongst others, the chapters in this ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Internationalisation of the Labour Question

    Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919

    Edited by Stefano Bellucci, Holger Weiss ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection is a global history of workers’ organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation of Trade Unions were formed. This historical moment represents a caesura in labour history as it epitomises the beginning of what the editors and the contributors in this book call the internationalisation of the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa

    Edited by Holger Weiss ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa (voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments), are used to improve ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Descent in Buildings

    by Bernhard Mühlherr, Holger P. Petersson, Richard M. Weiss ...
    Series Book 190 - Annals of Mathematics Studies
    Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the residues fixed by a group to form a kind of subbuilding or ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

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    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

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  • Women and the War on Boko Haram

    Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

    by Hilary Matfess ...
    Series series African Arguments
    For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram's campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    by M. Hakan Yavuz ...
    Series Book 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

    Edited by Mamadou Diouf ...
    Series Book 15 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the ... Read more

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  • The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

    The State's Role in Minority Integration

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 1: Political Economy and International Relations

    by Samer Abboud, Aurora Sottimano, Najib Ghadbian, Amanda P. Terc, Paulo Pinto, Rania Maktabi, Myriam Ababsa, Carsten Wieland, Mohammad Kamel Doraï, Martine Zeuthen, Valentina Napolitano ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics. On the one hand, it seemed everything would stay the same: an Asad on top of a political system controlled by secret services and Baathist one-party rule. On the other hand, it looked like everything ... Read more

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  • Political Islam in Europe and the Mediterranean

    Three contributions

    by Walid Phares, Lorenzo Vidino, Amr Hamzawy ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Political Islam is becoming increasingly important to European politicians and policymakers. This research paper gathers together three edited papers from the event ‘The Atlantic Seminar: Understanding Political Islam’, organised by the CES and the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s Party (Polak) and International Republican Institute in Vienna (IRI). The three authors emphasise the need ... Read more

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  • Iraqi Migrants in Syria

    The Crisis before the Storm

    by Sophia Hoffmann ...
    During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised the Syrian government for keeping open borders and providing a safe haven for Iraqis fleeing the ... Read more

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