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  • In the Time of Oil

    Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

    by Mandana Limbert ...
    Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Tenth Parallel

    Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

    by Eliza Griswold ...
    A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Crescent and Star

    Turkey Between Two Worlds

    by Stephen Kinzer ...
    "A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head." —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia InquirerIn the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch -- poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • God in Pink

    by Hasan Namir ...
    Lambda Literary Award winner, Best Gay FictionA revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Ammar is a sheikh whose guidance Ramy seeks, and whose tolerance is tested by his belief in the teachings of the Qur'an. Full of quiet moments of beauty and raw depictions of ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the Muslim World

    A Global Intellectual History

    by Cemil Aydin ...
    “Superb… A tour de force.”—Ebrahim Moosa“Provocative… Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.”—Washington PostWhen President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • "We Love Death As You Love Life"

    Britain's Suburban Terrorists

    by Raffaello Pantucci ...
    As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow-believers into London on the morning of July 7, 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treatment of Muslims worldwide, ideas fed to them by foreign extremists, and a sense of extreme rejection of the society in which they were born, they sought to reshape the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Amir Hussain ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Britain and the Arab Middle East

    World War I and its Aftermath

    by Robert H. Lieshout ...
    The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia'; the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that rebellion; and memoranda such as the Balfour Declaration all have shaped the Middle East into forms ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Iraq Cradle of Errors

    by Dr. C. Brandt Smith, Jr. ...
    "Dr. Brandt Smith clearly displayed an understanding of the Iraq people to a depth that many Army leaders do not comprehend. His unique ability to live and work among them showed his versatility to adapt and integrate into even the most hardened and complex cultures. I truly believe that Dr. Smith could step off of a plane in a land unknown to the civilized world, integrate fully into the people ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Longing for the Lost Caliphate

    A Transregional History

    by Mona Hassan ...
    In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and twentieth ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads

    Understanding Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Infighting to End the Conflict

    by Abdul Basit Ph.D. ...
    Series series Practical and Applied Psychology
    Tackling a subject that is as timely as it is complex, this expert work examines the turmoil inside Muslim communities, helping outsiders to understand and insiders to examine ways in which Islam can be reinterpreted for a modern world.The Global Muslim Community at a Crossroads: Understanding Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Infighting to End the Conflict is an illuminating work. Written by an ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt

    Media, Intellectuals and Society

    by Hatsuki Aishima ...
    What does it mean to be an intellectual in Egypt today? What is expected from an 'authentic scholar'? Hatsuki Aishima explores these questions byexamining educated, urban Egyptians and their perceptions of what it means to be 'cultured' and 'middle class' - something that, as a result of the neoliberal policies of Egyptian government, is widely thought to be a shrinking sector of society. Through ... Read more

    $153.99 USD