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  • Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy

    Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis

    by Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager ...
    In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Eastern governments, Muslim clerics, and some Danish politicians, the stage was set for a backlash against ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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  • The Underground Girls of Kabul

    In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

    by Jenny Nordberg ...
    An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, if imperfect, solution to the problem of girlhood in a society where women have few rights and overwhelming restrictions.”—The Boston GlobeIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Under the Black Flag

    An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS

    by Sami Moubayed ...
    The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed, a Beirut-based journalist who has been analysing Syria and the region for 20 years, has ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

    by Darina Al-Joundi, Mohamed Kacimi ...
    Translated by Marjolijn de Jager ...
    The Homeland actress's "recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique" memoir ( Publishers Weekly).Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as ... Read more

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  • Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent

    Inside British Islam

    by Innes Bowen ...
    Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are affiliated to one of the main Christian denominations, the vast majority of Britain's 1600 mosques ... Read more

    $19.99 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

  • Hasan al-Banna: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Abdullah Al-Arian ...
    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

  • The Awakening of Muslim Democracy

    Religion, Modernity, and the State

    by Jocelyne Cesari ...
    Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - countries that were founded by secular rulers and have since undergone secularized politics. Cesari argues that nation ... Read more

    $35.29 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

    $60.79 USD

  • The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey

    Urban Poverty, Grassroots Activism and Islamic Fundamentalism

    by Kayhan Delibas ...
    Turkey, officially a secular state, voted in an Islamist party in 2002, 2007 and 2011. How far does this reflect the trend which has seen the rise of political Islam across the Middle East? Does this indicate a growing tendency in the direction of Islamisation amongst the Turkish population? If not, what are the underlying reasons behind the electoral triumphs of the Islamist Justice and ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Power Struggles in the Middle East

    The Islamist Politics of Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood

    by Eva Dingel ...
    Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism: the unity of Muslims under an Islamic state or ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Islam

    Edited by Juliane Hammer, Omid Safi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. This volume also covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to ... Read more

    $36.09 USD