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  • 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

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  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Reconciliation

    Islam, Democracy, and the West

    by Benazir Bhutto ...
    Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her countrymen. But she continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than ever, since she knew that time was running out—for the future of her nation, and for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Temptations of Power

    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

    $13.29 USD

  • Justice for Some

    Law and the Question of Palestine

    by Noura Erakat ...
    Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accord's two-state solution is ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Hizbullah

    The Story from Within

    by Naim Qassem ...
    Hizbullah ('Party of God') is one of the Middle East's major political forces. Sheikh Naim Qassem, its Deputy Secretary-General, provides an insider's view of this Shi'ite resistance group turned political party, from its inception to the present day. Formed in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Hizbullah was instrumental in forcing Israel to withdraw its troops in 2000. During the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Rethinking Political Islam

    Edited by Shadi Hamid, William McCants ...
    For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda Party governed in coalition with two secular parties, ratified a liberal constitution, and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Islamism

    What it Means for the Middle East and the World

    by Tarek Osman ...
    A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region’s primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a serious threat to national security, historical identity, and a cohesive society. This provocative, ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • 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

  • The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada

    Culture, Politics, and Self

    by Nurjehan Aziz ...
    This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? What relation does it bear to historical, cultural, and ethnic identities? Is a total agnostic or an atheist a Muslim? Is a person who disavows being a Muslim still a Muslim? How do Muslims cope ... Read more

    $10.31 USD