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Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? Sura Qadiri 9780367601362
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the... -
Iran's Unresolved Revolution by Mark Downes 9781138720299
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.69This title was first published in 2002. As Iran enters into the third decade since the 1979 revolution, the prospect of socio-political unrest remains ever present. Iran's political structure, its... -
Sexuality in Islam by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba 9781032586212
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Originally published in 1985. Beginning with the Qur'an, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba confronts the question of male supremacy in Islam, and the strict separation of the masculine and the feminine. He gives... -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? by Sura Qadiri
Booksplease Price: £83.04This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the... -
Fifty Eastern Thinkers by Diane Collinson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.39Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from... -
The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture by Joseph M. Kitagawa
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.95This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields. They cover all the religious traditions of Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia,... -
Islam Without Allah?: The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran Colin Turner 9781138010673
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to... -
Jihadism in the Russian-Speaking World: The Genealogy of a Post-Soviet Phenomenon by Danis Garaev 9781032288451
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came... -
Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries by Sonja Brentjes 9781032271620
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.84The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century.Across six sections, a group of subject... -
Fifty Key Eastern Thinkers by Diane Collinson
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £101.23Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from... -
Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures by Glenda Abramson
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected... -
Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria: A Review of Current Debates John Haldon 9781138246386
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years,... -
The Routledge Companion to the Crusades by Peter Lock
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.96A compilation of facts, figures, maps, family trees, summaries of the major crusades and their historiography, the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the... -
Issues In International Relations by Trevor C. Salmon
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Students come to study International Relations at university driven by a variety of motives and active concern to study great contemporary issues, such as the causes and persistence of war, threats... -
The Failure of Democracy in Iraq: Religion, Ideology and Sectarianism by Hamid Alkifaey 9780367662868
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The Failure of Democracy in Iraq studies democratization in post-2003 Iraq, which has so far failed, due mainly to cultural and religious reasons. There are other factors, such as the legacy of the... -
The History of Evil in the Medieval Age: 450-1450 CE by Andrew Pinsent 9781032095134
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The second volume of The History of Evil explores the philosophy of evil in the long Middle Ages. Starting from the Augustinian theme of evil as a deprivation or perversion of what is good, this... -
China's Muslim Hui Community: Migration, Settlement and Sects Michael Dillon 9781138970441
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is a reconstruction of the history of the Muslim community in China known today as the Hui or often as the Chinese Muslims as distinct from the Turkic Muslims such as the Uyghurs. It traces... -
Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations by Dimitris Bouris 9781032132167
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.96EU-Middle East relations are multifaceted, varied and complex, shaped by historical, political, economic, migratory, social and cultural dynamics. Covering these relations from a broad perspective... -
Europe and Asia beyond East and West by Gerard Delanty 9780415511650
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from... -
Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi 9780201489378
Booksplease Price: £21.32"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass ,... -
The Food Effect Diet: Eat More, Weigh Less, Look and Feel Better by Dr. Michelle Braude
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56AS SEEN IN THE TIMES.LOSE AT LEAST 6LBS IN FOUR WEEKS WITHOUT GIVING UP CARBS, ALCOHOL OR CHOCOLATEThe Food Effect Diet is a simple, delicious and satisfying way of eating that sheds weight, boosts... -
Europe's Other: European Law Between Modernity and Post Modernity by Peter Fitzpatrick
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23First published in 1998, this volume focuses critically on the European identity of the law of the European Union, of national law and the law of human rights. It is primarily concerned with the ways... -
Beyond Civilization: Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization Harry Redner 9781412854856
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now entering-specifically, the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner... -
Teaching Malcolm X: Popular Culture and Literacy by Theresa Perry
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09The volume brings together a dazzling array of perspectives on Malcolm X to discuss the importance of X as a cultural hero and provide guidelines for teaching Malcolm-related material at elementary,... -
Between Redemption And Revival: The Jewish Yishuv Of Jerusalem In The Nineteenth Century by Jeff Halper
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book presents an ethnographic history of the Old Yishuv. It describes and analyzes a significant community that reflected more than any other the various strands of Jewish life and the... -
New European Identity and Citizenship by Remy Leveau
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This title was first published in 2002. This study, undertaken with the support of the Ford Foundation under the scientific leadership of Khadija Mohsen-Finan, Remy Leveau and Catherine Wihtol de... -
Terrorism Studies: A Reader by Angie Williams 9780415455053
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence.In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can... -
: The Islamic Jesus (1977): An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English and French by Don Wismer 9781138231610
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24First published in 1977, this book is intended as a record of sources in Islamic prophetology which focus on the prophet Isa - Jesus in Christian theology. The Islamic Isa differs markedly from the... -
Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis by Jaan S. Islam 9781032131856
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94"Proto-Salafist" 14th-century theologian Ibn Taymiyya is recognized as the intellectual forefather of contemporary Salafism and Jihadism. This volume offers a unique approach to the study of Ibn... -
Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies by Harry Verhoeven 9781032130804
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathers of postcolonial republics believed socialism... -
The Routledge Companion to the Crusades by Peter Lock 9780415247320
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.97A compilation of facts, figures, maps, family trees, summaries of the major crusades and their historiography, the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the... -
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science: Volume 3 Technology, Alchemy and Life Sciences by Roshdi Rashed 9780415124126
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £56.25Ever since the history of science emerged as a discipline at the heart of the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, Arabic science or at least certain sectors of it - have constantly been... -
Managing As Mission: Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change by Lori Heninger 9781138745391
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing, as a reflection of the organizational mission - the cornerstone of any nonprofit... -
Religion, Conflict and Military Intervention by Rosemary Durward 9780367740139
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52For many years religion has been the neglected component of international relations and yet in an age of globalization and terrorism, religious identity has become increasingly important in the lives... -
The Women of the United Arab Emirates Linda Soffan 9781138696181
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28First published in 1980, this book looks at the factors which influenced the position held by women in the United Arab Emirates in the second half of the 20th century. It argues that Islamic Law has... -
Totalitarianism, Globalization, Colonialism: The Destruction of Civilization Since 1914 Harry Redner 9781412863018
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic. Over the course of that one-hundred-year span, civilizations were destroyed in the Old World, the New World,... -
Islam and the Infidels: The Politics of Jihad, Da'wah, and Hijrah by David Bukay
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book discusses Islam, its relationship with the world, and how Muslims perceive the world and their role within it. Using Islamic scriptures and the works of important Muslim clerics, the author... -
Philosophic Classics, Volume II: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Forrest E. Baird 9780205783908
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £105.47Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as... -
Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture by Marwa M. El-Ashmouni 9780367703639
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book is an effort towards an in-depth understanding of the architectural discourse in Egypt developed over more than eight decades. It offers a distinctive theoretical interpretation of the... -
Perceptions of the Crusades from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: Engaging the Crusades, Volume One by Mike Horswell 9781138066014
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons...