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The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne 9781398501058
RRP: $27.28$17.66As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West.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: $42.00$33.29The 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... -
Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249
RRP: $52.48$46.47Winston 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 New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: $42.00$33.39"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... -
The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
RRP: $52.48$48.64The 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 Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: $94.50$82.82At 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: $31.48$21.11A 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... -
The Exile's Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa by Ibn Razin Al-Tujibi 9780863569920
RRP: $52.50$34.40The 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... -
A Treasury of Aisha: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved by Sofia Rehman
RRP: $23.08$15.96'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... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: $27.28$18.48Beyond 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,... -
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook 9780691236575
RRP: $73.50$61.51A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad 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... -
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid
RRP: $27.28$24.76Hamid 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... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: $48.30$38.85"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... -
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue by John Allembillah Azumah
RRP: $52.50$49.67Thoughtful 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... -
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $27.28$19.61WINNER 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... -
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $60.90$48.17In 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... -
Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $41.90$28.85Apologies 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: $50.38$43.97How 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: $73.48$55.55Abdallah 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... -
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Jonathan Berkey
RRP: $75.58$66.76Jonathan Berkey's 2003 book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and the religious traditions which preceded Islam... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $52.50$41.14How 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: $31.48$27.36A 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... -
The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi 9780745614199
RRP: $37.78$34.21When 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... -
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought by Louise Marlow 9780521894289
RRP: $83.98$69.85By 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: $56.68$46.77The 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... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 2 by Ibn Khaldun 9789390804757
RRP: $69.28$49.41Apologies 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 *... -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: $48.28$41.12I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a... -
The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia by Robert Haug 9780755638529
$67.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755638529Author Robert HaugPage Count 312Imprint I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 156g -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 1 by Ibn Khaldun 9789390804740
RRP: $73.48$49.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390804740Author Ibn KhaldunFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Dar UL ThaqafahPublisher Dar UL ThaqafahWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: $52.50$41.79A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had... -
The Almoravid and Almohad Empires Amira K. Bennison 9780748646807
RRP: $62.98$52.40A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North Africa whose rule fostered the emergence of the Islamic society which endured, in Morocco especially, until the early 20th century. Amira K. Bennison focuses on these... -
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals Douglas E. Streusand 9780813313597
RRP: $104.98$92.06Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran),... -
Challenges to A Liberal Polity: Human Rights, Citizenship and Identity by M. Hamid Ansari
$51.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096947Author M. Hamid AnsariFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan by Annika Schmeding 9781503637535
RRP: $52.48$46.22Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of... -
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization Nathaniel A. Miller 9781512825305
RRP: $113.40$98.26A new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English To interpret the Quran’s Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet... -
Discovering the Ottomans by Ilber Ortayli 9781847740083
RRP: $20.98$14.62What was the significance of the Ottoman Empire? What kind of lives did people live? What lessons can be learnt from the civilization that the Ottomans created? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? One of Turkey's leading historians, Ilber... -
The Rightly-Guided Caliphs by Gibril Fouad Haddad 9781938058691
RRP: $67.20$36.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058691Author Gibril Fouad HaddadFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher Institute for... -
A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas by Glaire D. Anderson 9780190913243
RRP: $123.90$112.67In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular discourse about Islam. Yet doing so has tended to impose an anachronistic conception of "science" onto... -
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria by Sara Rahnama 9781501772993
RRP: $90.30$80.20The Future Is Feminist by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule. Algerian people focused outward to developments in the... -
A History of Islamic Spain by Pierre Cachia 9780202309361
RRP: $96.58$84.27The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from...