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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Kleber Monod Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...

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Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 05 Love and Death

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849043076, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death, Imranali Panjwani mourns the massa...

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Christianity

Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Islam

Military

Fountainhead of Jihad The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012

Brown Vahid, Rassler Don

ISBN: HB: 9781849042079, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to ha...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 06 Reclaiming Al-Andalus

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849043168, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Ma...

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Other

From The Holy Land to Graceland Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives

Vikan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9781933253725, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
202 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus.

According to medievalist Gary Vikan, Graceland is much more than a wildly popular tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In this fascinating new book, Vikan posits that...

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Islam

General

Finding Mecca in America How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

Bilici Mucahit

ISBN: PB: 9780226049571, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 line illus.

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America...

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Christianity

Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Buddhism

Taming of the Demons Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

Dalton Jacob P.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187960, Yale University Press, January 2013
384 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibet's dark age that...

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