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Islam

Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernise Islam

Thompson Todd

ISBN: HB: 9781849047036, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western Christians in the twentieth century viewed Islam through a lens of social and political concerns that would have appeared novel to their medieval and early-modern predecessors. Concerns about the predicament of secular...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

Julian of Norwichologian, Theologian

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...

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Islam

Political Science

Islamism and Islam

Tibi Bassam

ISBN: HB: 9780300159981, Yale University Press, May 2012
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Despite the intense media focus on Muslims and their religion during the agitated years following the tragedy of 9/11, few Western scholars or policy makers today have a clear idea of the distinctions between Islam and Islamism. In this important and...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Sephardic Legacy Unique Features and Achievements

Toledano Henry

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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Political Science

Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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Christianity

Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc

Taylor Larissa Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9780300168952, Yale University Press, August 2010
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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Islam

Religion in Modern Islamic Discourse

Tayob Abdulkader

ISBN: HB: 9781850659532, Hurst Publishers, January 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Religion is central to any religious discourse, but religion as an analytical category that facilitates the reexamination and reinvention of a particular religious tradition is more difficult to locate. This task is made partic...

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Hinduism

Culture Studies

Offence: The Hindu Case

Tripathi Salil

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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