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The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne 9781398501058
RRP: €15.46€9.73As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West.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: €23.80€18.85The 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: €29.74€25.92Winston 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: €23.80€18.62"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 Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi 9780745614199
RRP: €21.41€19.09When 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... -
A Treasury of Aisha: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved by Sofia Rehman
RRP: €13.08€8.78'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... -
Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher
RRP: €17.84€11.66A 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... -
Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh
RRP: €17.84€15.51A 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... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: €29.75€23.31How 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... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: €27.37€20.66"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 French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: €15.46€10.19Beyond 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,... -
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Douglas E. Streusand 9780813313597
RRP: €59.49€51.77Islamic 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),... -
Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures by Lawrence Rosen 9781009388986
RRP: €27.36€23.28Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an... -
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
RRP: €15.46€10.82WINNER 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 Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: €53.55€46.59At 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... -
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue by John Allembillah Azumah
RRP: €29.75€27.69Thoughtful 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... -
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid
RRP: €15.46€13.82Hamid 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... -
Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan by Annika Schmeding 9781503637535
RRP: €33.31€25.79Despite 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 Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad by Thomas Hegghammer
RRP: €41.64€31.48Abdallah 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 Almoravid and Almohad Empires by Amira K. Bennison
RRP: €35.69€29.23A 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... -
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Jonathan Berkey
RRP: €42.83€37.83Jonathan 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... -
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: €34.51€27.30In 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... -
The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria by Sara Rahnama 9781501772993
RRP: €51.17€45.10The 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... -
Discovering the Ottomans by Ilber Ortayli 9781847740083
RRP: €11.89€9.72What 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... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: €29.75€23.31A 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 Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 2 by Ibn Khaldun 9789390804757
RRP: €39.26€27.43Apologies 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 *... -
The Rightly-Guided Caliphs by Gibril Fouad Haddad 9781938058691
RRP: €38.08€20.62Apologies 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... -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: €27.36€22.94I.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... -
Shi'i Islam and Sufism: Classical Views and Modern Perspectives by Denis Hermann
€37.64I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi'is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions... -
The Abbasid Caliphate: A History by Tayeb El-Hibri 9781316634394
RRP: €32.12€26.41The 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 1 by Ibn Khaldun 9789390804740
RRP: €41.64€27.43Apologies 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 *... -
Challenges to A Liberal Polity: Human Rights, Citizenship and Identity by M. Hamid Ansari
€29.19Apologies 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 -
A History of Islamic Spain by Pierre Cachia 9780202309361
RRP: €54.73€47.75The 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... -
A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas by Glaire D. Anderson 9780190913243
€72.24In 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... -
Stories of the Prophets: Prophet Abraham by Ibn Kathir 9781643542843
RRP: €23.79€20.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643542843Author Ibn KathirFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint NoahaPublisher NoahaWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm -
The Athan (The Glorious call for the Glorious worship) by Mohammed Azhar Ahmed 9785876515568
RRP: €24.98€18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785876515568Author Mohammed Azhar AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Mohammed Azhar AhmedPublisher Mohammed Azhar AhmedWeight(grams) 59g -
Formation of Islamic Court Union by Temeka M Roby 9788919999974
RRP: €28.55€21.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788919999974Author Temeka M RobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Temeka M. RobyPublisher Temeka M. RobyWeight(grams) 240g -
Let The Stones Speak: Archaeology challenges Islam by Dan Gibson 9781927581230
RRP: €84.48€61.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927581230Author Dan GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Independent Scholars PressPublisher Independent Scholars PressWeight(grams) 1125g -
Iberian Ceramics: Muslim, Christian, Jewish Depictions by Ghufran 'Iffah Almasi 9780423128826
RRP: €29.74€21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780423128826Author Ghufran 'Iffah AlmasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ali Shah PublisherPublisher Ali Shah PublisherWeight(grams) 227g -
Exploring Islamophobia and its determinants by Stephen A Carrington 9789615918443
RRP: €26.17€19.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.