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  • Salman Rushdie

    Contemporary Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Professor Robert Eaglestone, Martin McQuillan ...
    Series series Contemporary Critical Perspectives
    Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Power, Politics, and Culture

    Interviews with Edward W. Said

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture.“A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of ... Read more

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  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

    by Shahab Ahmed ...
    A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Nietzsche and Islam

    by Roy Jackson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    In the light of current events, particularly the ‘post September 11th’ debates with much focus on aspects of the ‘clash of civilisation’ thesis, the issue of Islamic identity is a crucial one. Whilst Friedrich Nietzsche was addressing an audience of a different culture and age, his own originality, creativity, psychological, philological and historical insights allows for a fresh and enlightening ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Key Themes for the Study of Islam

    by Jamal J. Elias ...
    "Key Themes for the Study of Islam" examines the central themes and concepts indispensable to an informed understanding of Islamic religion and society. From Gender and History to Prayer and Prophecy, each authoritative chapter focuses on a single aspect of the religion and presents a critical discussion written by a world expert in that field. Exposing as false the idea that Islam and Muslims are ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Foucault in Iran

    Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment

    by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi ...
    Series series Muslim International
    Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering if it were possible to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Islamic Liberation Theology

    Resisting the Empire

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Read more

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  • Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives

    by El-Sayed el-Aswad ...
    el-Aswad introduces the concepts of worldviews/cosmologies of Muslims, explaining that the different types of worldviews are not constructed solely by religious scholars or intellectual elite, but are latent in Islamic tradition, embedded in popular imagination, and triggered through people's everyday interaction in various countries and communities. He draws from a number of sources including in ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

    Edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the ... Read more

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  • The Construction of Belief

    Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun

    Edited by Aziz Esmail, Abdou Filali-Ansary ...
    Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic Studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism. This Festschrift honours Arkoun AZs scholarship, ... Read more

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