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Reading the Qur'an
ISBN: PB: 9781849043670, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Few books have had a more profound impact on human history than the Qur'an. It shapes the beliefs, lives and behaviour of over 1.5 billion Muslims, who regard it as the Word of God, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Speaking di...
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£12,99
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Force and Fanaticism Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9781849044646, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police), and governs every facet of Sa...
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£30,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 15 Educational Reform
ISBN: PB: 9781849045421, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas argues that educational reform is the biggest challenge facing Muslim societies, Richard Pringle discusses the purpose of education, Abdelwahab El-Affendi suggests ways that Muslim education should be reco...
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£14,99
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From Deep State to Islamic State
ISBN: PB: 9781849045469, Hurst Publishers, June 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In his disturbing and timely political history of the "Deep State" in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre Filiu reveals how the autocracies of Syria, Egypt, and Yemen crushed the democratic uprisings of the "Arab Revolution". They did...
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£20,00
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Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849044776, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity th...
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£25,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 14 Power
ISBN: PB: 9781849044905, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of "Islamic State", Kecia Ali surveys sexual politi...
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£14,99
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Apostates When Muslims Leave Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849044691, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Apostates" is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Mus...
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£30,00
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Terrains of Exchange Religious Economies of Global Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849044288, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, Hindu nationalists and Japanese imperialists, this book brings to life the local sites of globalisation that transformed Muslim religiosity through the lo...
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£35,00
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Devil's Long Tail Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace
ISBN: HB: 9781849043434, Hurst Publishers, February 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media – and not all are as harmless as the...
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£20,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 13 Race
ISBN: PB: 9781849044899, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hassan Mahamdallie argues that racism is twenty-first century's main problem, Shannon Shah detects racial overtones within Islam, Robert Irwin examines race and racism in the Arabian Nights, Hugh Kennedy uncovers the ninth cent...
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£14,99
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