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Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent Inside British Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849043014, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide...
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£17,99
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Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
ISBN: PB: 9780226051659, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to des...
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£13,00
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Muslim Zion Pakistan as a Political Idea
ISBN: HB: 9781849042765, Hurst Publishers, August 2013
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many, a failed state. "Muslim Zion" cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that it has never been a nation...
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£25,00
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Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones
"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...
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£26,00
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£73,00
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Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781849042703, ISBN: HB: 9781849041683, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! he Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has always attracted widely divergent attention. Scholars have regarded it both as the source of terrorism and, more recently, as the potential harbinger of democratisation. The Muslim B...
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£35,00
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£30,00
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Muslims in Indian Cities Trajectories of Marginalisation
ISBN: HB: 9781849041768, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At more than 150 million people, Muslims are the largest Indian minority but are facing a significant decline in socio-economic as well as political terms – while waves of communal violence have affected them over the last twen...
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£30,00
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Miracles at the Jesus Oak Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780300167023, Yale University Press, October 2011
336 pp., 21x14 cm
In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...
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£21,00
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Moses Mendelssohn Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781584656852, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much...
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£24,00
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My Life with the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781849041522, ISBN: HB: 9781849040266, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. "My Life with the Taliban" offers a co...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Manifold Greatness The Making of the King James Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781851243495, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 65 colour illus.
This new book from Bodleian Library Publishing tells the story of this remarkable achievement with outstanding images from the collections of The Bodleian and Folger Shakespeare Libraries. The book discusses the obstacles and achievements faced by...
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£19,99
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