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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Recognizing Islam Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East Michael Gilsenan I.B. Tauris Recent crises in the Middle East have flooded the media with sensationalist and inaccurate portraits of Islam. This revised edition of Gilsenan's classic work...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	The Christians of Lebanon Political Rights in Islamic Law Tauris Academic Studies David Grafton Tauris Academic Studies This book examines the Islamic categories of Christians under Islamic law and compares them with the status of Christians within Lebanon. David Grafton reviews...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region Neamatollah Nojumi Palgrave Macmillan On September 11, 2001, the world looked in horror at one of the most nefarious acts of terrorism in history. Neamatollah Nojumi explains how Afghanistan became...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	The Taliban War and Religion in Afghanistan, Revised Edition Politics in Contemporary Asia Peter Marsden Zed Books The Taliban are yet another manifestation of the growth of radical Islam worldwide. This book explores what they stand for and the factors leading to their...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Exploring An Islamic Empire Fatimid History and its Sources E. Paul Walker I.B. Tauris Exploring an Islamic Empire is a detailed survey of different genres of source materials, including historiographical, epigraphic, and numismatic, on Fatimid...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Contemporary Debates in Islam An Anthology of Modernist and. Fundamentalist Thought Edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof Palgrave Macmillan The essays in this volume reveal what is sharp and what is subtle in the differences between modernism and fundamentalism, and offer the reader a variety of...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Islamic Family Law in A Changing World A Global Resource Book Edited by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im Zed Books An-Na'im explores how the practice of the Shari'a, commonly known as Islamic family law is often modified by theological differences of interpretation, a...

Trade Paperback : $44.00 Buy	Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam A Reader Edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof Palgrave Macmillan This collection demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. It...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics, Updated Edition Barry Rubin Palgrave Macmillan This classic work is updated to analyze how internal debates, coupled with the government's defeat of the insurgency through violence and cooptation, led many...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Islam and the Myth of Confrontation Religion and Politics in the Middle East Fred Halliday I.B. Tauris The collapse of communism and the rise of militant Islamic movements in the Middle East, raised the specter of a future dominated by the conflict between...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Blindfold Horse Memories of a Persian Childhood Shusha Guppy Tauris Parke Paperbacks A revealing memoir that describes life in Iran before the revolution

Hardcover : $57.00 Buy	Memoirs of a Mission The Ismaili Scholar, Statesman and Poet, al-Mu'yyad fi'l Din al-Shirazi Verena Klemm Institute for Ismaili Studies Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-DÌn al-ShÌrzÌ (d. 470/1087) was an outstanding, multi-talented Fatimid scholar of Persian origin. He excelled as a...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Al-Qaeda The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke I.B. Tauris Award-winning reporter Jason Burke shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. In this...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Islamic Jerusalem and its Christians A History of Tolerance and Tensions Library of Middle East History Maher Abu-Munshar Tauris Academic Studies Islamic Jerusalem has a special place in the hearts of the three monotheistic religions. Throughout its history it has been the site of tolerance and tensions....

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Sufism and the 'Modern' in Islam Library of Modern Middle East Studies Edited by Martin Van Bruinessen and Julia Day Howell I.B. Tauris Sufism has not only survived into the twenty-first century but has experienced a significant resurgence throughout the Muslim world. Sufism and the 'Modern' in...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Understanding Muslim Identity Rethinking Fundamentalism Gabriele Marranci Palgrave Macmillan In this timely book, Marranci critically surveys the available theories on Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. Rejecting essentialism and cultural...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	The New Orientalists Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard Ian Almond I.B. Tauris The west’s Orientalism -- its construction of the Arab "Other" -- has been exposed, examined and expurgated under the critical theory microscope in recent...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean Self-Expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-Classical Times to the Present Day The Islamic Mediterranean Robin Ostle I.B. Tauris From the mountains of Lebanon to the shores of Turkey and North Africa, the Islamic Mediterranean has always been a dynamic cultural hub, where the stories and...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	New Directions in Islamic Thought Exploring Reform and Muslim Tradition Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen & Christian Moe I.B. Tauris How are Muslims to reconcile their beliefs with the pressures and imperatives of the modern world? How should they handle the tension between their roles as...

Hardcover : $69.95 Buy	The Spirituality of Shi'i Islam Belief and Practices Ismaili Texts and Translations Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi Institute for Ismaili Studies Shi'ism is the second most numerous branch of Islam in the modern world, with between 130 and 190 million adherents across the globe. Shi'i Islam is becoming...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Christian Encounters with Iran Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution International Library of Iranian Studies Sasan Tavassoli Tauris Academic Studies The interface between the current Shi‘ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Ibn Hajar Makers of Islamic Civilization Makers of Islamic Civilization R. Kevin Jaques I.B. Tauris When he died in February 1449, Ibn Hajar (1372-1449) ended a life of surprising contradictions. Six days short of his 78th birthday, his body was laid to rest...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development Abbas Mirakhor and Hossein Askari Palgrave Macmillan There is a cognitive deficit between the holistic vision for human and societal development in Islam and the results achieved by Muslim societies. The authors...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	From Palestine to Israel A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 Ariella Azoulay Pluto Press In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of...

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