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Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion by William Albert Graham 9780521448208
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98The concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined in this close analysis of the traditions of oral use of the sacred writings of religions around the world. Pointing out the central... -
Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality: The Top 20% by Peter Mihalyi 9783030038458
Booksplease Price: £55.47Mihalyi and Szelenyi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies,... -
Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion by William Albert Graham 9780521331760
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99The concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined in this close analysis of the traditions of oral use of the sacred writings of religions around the world. Pointing out the central... -
The Oral and the Written in Early Islam by Gregor Schoeler 9780415597074
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the... -
Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham by Bruce Fudge 9781032171968
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur'an and Islam, all influenced... -
The Caspian World: Connections and Contentions at a Modern Eurasian Crossroads Abbas Amanat 9781501781278
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empires-Russian, Persian, Ottoman, and British-competed,... -
The Caspian World: Connections and Contentions at a Modern Eurasian Crossroads Abbas Amanat 9781501777172
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empires-Russian, Persian, Ottoman, and British-competed,... -
Theories Of The New Class: Intellectuals And Power by Lawrence Peter King 9780816643448
Booksplease Price: £26.68Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about intellectual class formation to social theoryOld as the notion of the "New Class" is (the term was coined by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin around 1870), the... -
The Story of Sociological Theory: Contextualizing Social Thinkers by David G. LoConto 9781793537027
Booksplease Price: £75.81Designed to help students discover and foster a natural interest in sociology, The Story of Sociological Theory: Contextualizing Social Thinkers introduces students to key sociological concepts and... -
Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies: Selected Writings by William A. Graham
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49William A Graham, a leading international scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, gathers together his selected writings under three sections: 1.History and Interpretation of Islamic Religion; 2.The... -
Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia by Marc Garcelon
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.85Revolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of... -
Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia by Marc Garcelon 9781592133628
Booksplease Price: £26.40Revolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of... -
God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran Navid Kermani 9780745651675
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.35The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and... -
The First Muslims: History and Memory by Asma Afsaruddin 9781851684977
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.72A fresh look at the origins and development of Islam, this is a fascinating reconstruction of the era of the first three generations of Muslims. Using a wealth of classical Arabic sources, it... -
Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World by Rudi Matthee
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Islam 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... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.67At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced... -
In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History Roy P. Mottahedeh 9780861545605
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.13In pieces drawn from over the course of his distinguished career, pre-eminent historian Roy Mottahedeh explores such diverse topics as the social bonds that connected people in the early Islamic... -
History of American Political Thought by Bryan-Paul Frost 9781498558716
Booksplease Price: £78.10Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to... -
Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion by Agnes Horvath
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human... -
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.46A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009"The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years."-Richard Spencer, The Times (London) "A... -
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer by Kathleen G. Donohue 9780801883910
Booksplease Price: £29.22In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "four essential human freedoms." Three of these-freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion-had long been understood as defining... -
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.90Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of...