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  • Overcoming Boko Haram

    Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, David Ehrhardt, Sherine El Taraboulsi, Khadija Gambo Hawaja, Zainab Usman, Murray Last, Ibrahim Haruna Hassan, Kate Meagher, Abubakar Kawu Monguno0, M. Sani Umar1, Ibrahim Umara2, Abdourahmane Idrissa3, Julie G. Sanda4 ...
    It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sects & Social Disorder

    Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Hannah Hoechner, Judith-Ann Walker, M. Sani Umar, Mukhtar U. Bunza, Murray Last, Yahaya Hashim ...
    Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim pluralism and conflict in Nigeria.Conflicting interpretations of texts and contexts have led to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria

    Edited by David Ehrhardt, David Oladimeji Alao, M. Sani Umar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.Set against a backdrop of widespread security threats – including insurgency, land disputes, communal violence, regional independence movements, and widespread criminal activities – perhaps more than ever before, ... Read more

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    Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza

    Engaging the Islamist Social Sector

    by Sara Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A revealing look at Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West BankMany in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo peace process, Hamas and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Apartheid in Palestine

    Hard Laws and Harder Experiences

    Edited by Ghada Ageel ...
    “Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims from childhood. This collection of essays is a poignant cry for justice, far too long delayed.” —Noam Chomsky There are more ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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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  • The Organization of Islamic Cooperation

    Politics, Problems, and Potential

    by Turan Kayaoglu ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world’s leading international Islamic organization. Turan Kayaoglu provides the first accessible and concise introduction and overview of this important organization.This book details the OIC’s struggle to address popular Muslim demands balanced against the member states’ reluctance to support the OIC politically and materially. Despite this ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo

    Their Success and Why the Process Ultimately Failed

    by Sven Behrendt ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel.Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations, this book argues that at the core of the negotiations was a fascinating dilemma of recognition. Overcoming this dilemma was at the centre of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Understanding Boko Haram

    Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa

    Edited by James J. Hentz, Hussein Solomon ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria.Boko Haram’s goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the modern state system forced on it by the West. The central theme of this volume examines the relationship ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

    by Wendy Pearlman ...
    Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too ... Read more

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