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The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne 9781398501058
RRP: $16.76$10.68As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the events of 9/11 and the advent of the 'war on terror', this narrative seemed prophetic. But, as Peter Oborne... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
RRP: $25.80$19.23The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the... -
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook 9780691236575
RRP: $45.15$37.26A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: $25.80$20.51"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249
RRP: $32.24$28.10Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus... -
The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
RRP: $32.24$29.88The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of... -
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue by John Allembillah Azumah
RRP: $32.25$30.02Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: $58.05$50.88At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes... -
Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher
RRP: $19.34$12.77A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish historyWritten in the same tradition as John Julius Norwich's engrossing accounts of Venice and Byzantium, Richard Fletcher's Moorish Spain entertains even as it enlightens. He tells the... -
Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict by Maud S. Mandel 9780691125817
RRP: $58.05$46.44This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows... -
The Exile's Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa by Ibn Razin Al-Tujibi 9780863569920
RRP: $32.25$21.13The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even hand-washing soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine of Muslim Spain and North Africa in the period - its... -
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo 9780520398573
RRP: $38.70$30.04A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across... -
The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey by Soner Cagaptay
RRP: $12.89$10.02*New Edition of the Leading Work on Modern Turkey* In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its... -
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid
RRP: $16.76$14.98Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented... -
A Treasury of Aisha: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved by Sofia Rehman
RRP: $14.18$9.80'Aisha bint Abu Bakr (RA) has been an inspiration and paragon for Muslims since the first generation of Believers emerged. Hailed as a guiding light, a fount of wisdom and a purveyor of the Prophetic mission, Aisha's words have illuminated Islamic... -
Violence and Islam: Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed Adonis 9781509511907
RRP: $12.89$8.90Adonis influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: $16.76$11.35Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty,... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: $29.67$23.87"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $16.76$12.05WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily TelegraphIn 1570, after plots... -
Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers - Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott 9780060584702
RRP: $15.47$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060584702Author Terry McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 332g -
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $37.41$29.59In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does... -
People of the Book Zachary Karabell 9780719567551
RRP: $14.18$9.82We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply... -
Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $25.74$17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136936Author Justin MarozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
Islamic Historiography by Chase F. Robinson
RRP: $30.95$27.01How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in... -
The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad by Thomas Hegghammer
RRP: $45.14$34.12Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he... -
Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State by Yehuda D. Nevo
RRP: $32.25$24.30In this controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, archaeologist Yehuda D. Nevo and researcher Judith Koren present a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion. Whereas most works on this subject... -
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East Bernard Lewis 9780753818718
RRP: $16.76$11.39A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholarBernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $32.25$25.27How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in... -
Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh
RRP: $19.34$16.81A fundamental challenge to the way we understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam in the region From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East... -
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
RRP: $16.76$11.39The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: $28.38$24.30Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural... -
Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World by Rudi Matthee
RRP: $32.25$28.42Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess-whether... -
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq Baconi 9780804797412
RRP: $46.44$44.72Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various accusations and critical assumptions have been used to justify extreme military action against Hamas. The reality of Hamas is,... -
The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi 9780745614199
RRP: $23.21$21.01When Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, there were some who claimed that is was a blasphemous assault on Islamic tradition, since no Muslim state, they alleged, had ever been governed by a woman. In this extraordinary book, now... -
Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane 9780674050822
RRP: $48.96$40.18Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa... -
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought by Louise Marlow 9780521894289
RRP: $51.59$42.91By examining a wide range of Arabic and Persian literature from the eighth to the thirteenth century, Louise Marlow shows the tension that existed between the traditional egalitarian ideal of early Islam, and the hierarchical impulses of the classical... -
The Abbasid Caliphate: A History by Tayeb El-Hibri 9781316634394
RRP: $34.82$27.63The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture. This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its... -
Armies Of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899 by Dominic Green 9780099487050
RRP: $20.63$14.98This is the story of what happens when a liberal minded Prime Minister is caught between two sets of fundamentalists, one Islamic, the other Christian. It could be a tale of our time. But this is actually the story of Islam and the Empire on the Nile c... -
The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual by Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
RRP: $37.40$35.50Those coming to the study of Islamic history for the first time face a baffling array of rulers and dynasties in the many different areas of Islam. This book provides a comprehensive and reliable reference source for all students of history and culture. ... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 2 by Ibn Khaldun 9789390804757
RRP: $42.56$30.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390804757Author Ibn KhaldunFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Dar UL ThaqafahPublisher Dar UL ThaqafahWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...