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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From furious reactions to the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to the suppression of women, news from the Muslim world begs the question: is Islam incompatible with freedom? With an eye sympathetic to Western liberalism and Islamic theology, Mustafa Akyol traces the ideological and historical roots of political Islam.
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Some of the most pressing questions in the Middle East and North Africa today revolve around the proper place of Islamic institutions and authorities in governance and political affairs. Drawing on data from 42 surveys carried out in fifteen countries between 1988 and 2011, representing the opinions of more than 60,000 men and women, this study investigates the reasons that some individuals support a central role for Islam in government while others...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Call chronicles the House of Saud's vast project to systematically transform the Muslim world in its own image by spreading abroad Wahhabism, its brand of ultraconservative Islam. Using billions of dollars, thousands of personnel, and institutions both governmental and unofficial, "Saudi money" is both more complex and more influential than is commonly believed. Journalist Krithika Varagur traverses three continents to tell the story of the Saudi...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
©1992
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This biography attempts to strip away centuries of distortion and myth and present a balanced view of Muhammad, the man whose religion, Islam, continues to dramatically affect the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Heaven on Earth, Sadakat Kadri brings lucid wit and analytical skill to the thrilling and turbulent story of Islam's foundation and expansion. He shows how legal ideas gradually evolved out of thousands of reports about the Prophet Mohammad, most of which were not even written down until two centuries after his death. And he explains how, just in the last forty years, the shari'a has been appropriated and transformed by hardliners desperate to...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 277 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Somali piracy is repeatedly associated with the historical specter of Barbary. Indeed, piracy off the Horn of Africa has matched the spread of conflict and chaos that allow criminal elites to assume power. The world now fears Somalia has become a safe haven for terrorists who wish to wreck havoc on the developed world. Western policy towards Somalia focuses solely on the country's poverty-stricken Islamic population, which, with its proximity to the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 288 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent millennialists. The peace process in Israel seemed to completely collapse. Finally, after coalescing in Syria as a territorial...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 326 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this richly reported and movingly written chronicle, Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs, that animate the lives of ordinary citizens in this nuclear-armed nation of 170 million."--P. [2] of dust jacket.
12) Taliban
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
℗2002
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A correspondent who covers Afghanistan and Pakistan brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the extreme Islamic organization, into sharp focus. Covers its rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, the effects of changing American attitudes, and the new face of Islamic fundamentalism.
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