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Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq

By Sultan Barakat

Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46424-6

Published December 15th 2007 by Routledge.

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Democratization in the Muslim World

Changing Patterns of Authority and Power

Edited by Frederic Volpi, Francesco Cavatorta

This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46367-6

Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.

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Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia

By Zachary Abuza

Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.

Indonesia is a country...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46106-1

Published October 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Alevis in Turkey

The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition

By David Shankland

This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44436-1

Published July 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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Deconstructing the Bible

Abraham ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah

By Irene Lancaster

Deconstructing the Bible represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44444-6

Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia

The Umma Below the Winds

By Michael Francis Laffan

Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44435-4

Published May 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran

A Persian Renaissance

By George E. Lane

An account of the re-emergence of Persia as a world player and the reassertion of its cultural, political and spiritual links with Turkic Lands, this...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44454-5

Published May 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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The West and Islam

Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura

By Mishal Fahm al-Sulami

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44438-5

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Jews, Muslims and Mass Media

Mediating the 'Other'

Edited by Dr Yulia Egorova, Yulia Egorova, Tudor Parfitt

This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44447-7

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Islamic Insurance

A Modern Approach to Islamic Banking

By Aly Khorshid

Some Muslims believe insurance is unnecessary, as society should help its victims. Muslims can no longer ignore the fact that they live, trade and communicate...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44450-7

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

By S.M. Ghazanfar

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44451-4

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Small Players of the Great Game

The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan

By Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44452-1

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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The New Politics of Islam

Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States

By Naveed Shahzad Sheikh, Naveed S. Sheikh

This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44453-8

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Islam and Political Legitimacy

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Abdullah Saeed

Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44437-8

Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Iranian History and Politics

The Dialectic of State and Society

By Dr Homa Katouzian

This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian...

Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44170-4

Published March 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Jerusalem

Idea and Reality

Edited by Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad

Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today’s headlines. With...

Published May 12th 2008 by Routledge.

Making British Culture

English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740-1830

By David Allan

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around...

Published May 12th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory

Edited by Michael W. Warren, Heather A. Walsh-Haney, Laurel Freas

Presenting a rare glimpse into the various laboratories that involve forensic anthropology, The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory reveals the ways in which anthropologists document, process, and...

Published May 12th 2008 by CRC Press.

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AS Media Studies

The Essential Introduction for AQA

By Philip Rayner, Peter WallPeter Wall

AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA is fully revised for the 2008 specification with full colour throughout, over 100 images, new case studies...

Published May 11th 2008 by Routledge.

Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict

Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society

By Michael Vinay Bhatia, Mark Sedra

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive assessment of small arms and security-related issues in post-9/11 Afghanistan. It includes case studies which reveal...

Published May 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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