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Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
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£23,00
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War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables
Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...
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£44,00
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Lives in Common Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron
ISBN: HB: 9781849044196, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most books dealing with the Israeli – Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street...
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£25,00
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Abraham's Children Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780300179378, Yale University Press, June 2012
288 pp., 15.6x14 cm
Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance. Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Sudan, the Balkans, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Caucasus are just some of the areas of intractable conflict, apparently ins...
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£25,00
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Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown
ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.
Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...
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£15,00
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In Ishmael's House A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
ISBN: PB: 9780300177985, ISBN: HB: 9780300167153, Yale University Press, August 2011
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In this absorbing and eloquent book, Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents...
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£18,99
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£28,50
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Sephardic Legacy Unique Features and Achievements
ISBN: PB: 9781589662056, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm
Fundamentally different from other more prominent, Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In "The Sephardic Legacy", Henry Toledano immers...
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£20,00
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