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Hamas in Politics Democracy, Religion, Violence
ISBN: PB: 9781849040297, Hurst Publishers, December 2009
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In January 2006, Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. The inherent contradictions in this situation have left many analysts at...
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£35,00
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Offence: The Hindu Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497385, Seagull Books, November 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. Though historically the practice of Hinduism does promote the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of life, in the pa...
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£15,00
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Borders of Islam Exploring Samuel Huntington's Faultlines, From Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah
ISBN: PB: 9781850659730, ISBN: HB: 9781850659723, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilisations", Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington claimed that conflict between cultural blocs, or civilisations, will dominate the future. More controversially, he predicted that future c...
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£20,00
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£50,00
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Nahum A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300144796, Yale University Press, October 2009
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis...
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£45,00
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Ismailis in Colonial Era Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969
ISBN: HB: 9781850659822, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the early nineteenth century onwards the Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed historical legend, into a small but highly organised temporal and religious movement with g...
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£30,00
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Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9781850659358, ISBN: HB: 9781850659341, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also sai...
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£19,99
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£49,99
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Chosen Will Become Herds Studies in Twentieth-century Kabbalah
ISBN: PB: 9780300123944, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad ov...
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£42,00
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Global Salafism Islam's New Religious Movement
ISBN: PB: 9781850659808, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
464 pp., 21.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors...
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£25,00
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Proverbs 10-31 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300142099, Yale University Press, July 2009
704 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
This volume completes "Bible" scholar Michael V. Fox's comprehensive commentary on the book of "Proverbs". As in his previous volume on the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and lit...
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£65,00
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Marginal Jew Volume 4: Law and Love (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)
ISBN: HB: 9780300140965, Yale University Press, June 2009
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps
John Meier's previous volumes in the acclaimed series A Marginal Jew are founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can nevertheless arrive at a consensus on fundamental hi...
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£70,00
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