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By: David Nirenberg

ISBN: 9781781851135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Head of Zeus
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A rigorous account of one of history's darkest tendencies, following the development of anti-Semitism across three millennia.


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By: Geoffrey Lewis

ISBN: 9781847250407
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Gives insight into the relationship between Arthur Balfour and Chaim Weizmann and an important background to the Arab-Israeli conflict raging today.


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By: Riaz Hassan

ISBN: 9780522862584
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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By: Stephen Vertigans

ISBN: 9780275980511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Investigating ideological beliefs and motivations, Vertigans argues, is the only means of understanding the wide ranging nature of the Islamic resurgence.

A long tern, comprehensive account of Turkish society spotlights important events and fundamental differences that have contributed to the contemporary Islamic resurgence.


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By: Baqer Moin

ISBN: 9781845117900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Iranian Revolution that Khomeini led in 1978/79, religion once more moved centre stage in world politics. This is a biography of the Iranian leader.


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By: Ziba Mir-Hosseini

ISBN: 9781780747163
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Presents exciting new feminist research that challenges gender discrimination and male authority in Islamic legal tradition


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By: Vivian Gerrand

ISBN: 9780522869293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Situates the Arab Revolutions within their broader contextual backgrounds - showing that a unique set of historical events, as well as local, regional and global dynamics, has converged to provide the catalyst that triggered the revolts - and also within a new conceptual framework.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: W. Montgomery Watt

ISBN: 9781851681525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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This landmark book describes the course of religious thinking within Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, to 950.


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By: Leonard Lewisohn

ISBN: 9781851681884
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries. This collection of 24 essays covers the key achievements of the Muslim intellectual and cultural tradition in history, mysticism, philosophy and poetry.


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By: David Morgan

ISBN: 9781851681938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Drawing on twenty-four authorities in the field, this book combines essays on all aspects of Sufism in this period - the religious, political, philosophical, mystical, artistic, literary and historical.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Leonard Lewisohn

ISBN: 9781851681891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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This collection examines the roots of the artistic, literary and cultural renaissance of Sufism from the 12th to the 15th centuries. It includes essays on Rumi's poetry and imagery; Sufi music and the idea of ecstacy; sainthood and Neoplatonism; and comparative metaphysics and literature


(Paperback)

By: Ray Takeyh

ISBN: 9780275976293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Anshuman A. Mondal

ISBN: 9781846450198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book attempts to find out by asking them to explore their experiences, attitudes and opinions, presenting a picture of ordinary young Muslim lives.

The young Muslim voices that are heard in this book come from many walks of life, reflecting the diversity of Muslim communities in Britain.


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By: Oishee Alam

ISBN: 9780522874914
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the white Australian nation. Oishee Alam details how racialisation is reproduced and experienced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike.


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By: Anisa Buckley

ISBN: 9780522875898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.


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By: Jeremy J Kingsley

ISBN: 9780522873054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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