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The Venture of Islam, Volume 2
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of... more...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of... more...
Eclipse of the Sunnis
PublicAffairs 2010; US$ 15.99An award-winning NPR correspondent illuminates the flipside of the Shia revival?the dislocation and destabilization of the Sunni Muslims?and its impact on the Middle East more...
Is This Your First War?
Dundurn 2012; US$ 24.99Premier foreign correspondent Michael Petrou treks through the Middle East and Central Asia, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Egypt, and bring backs blistering stories of turmoil and the people who are driving significant changes. more...
Islam and Colonialism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 190.00Tracing the development of western thought about Central Asia, this book argues that for historical and political reasons, Central Asia was seen as being in a colonial relationship with Russia. Consequently, an anti-colonial revolution in Asia was seen as the greatest threat to the USSR. The book questions the suitability of the colonial model for... more...
Horrors of Slavery
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 24.95First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of a sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray... more...
Oil, Islam, and Conflict
Reaktion Books 2007; US$ 29.00The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan while Chechnya still struggles under a shadow of violence, and the nations surrounding them are barely more stable. Add in the significant reserves scattered throughout Central Asia and you have a volatile political cocktail that makes the region, in Rob Johnson?s words, the ?new Middle East.? In Oil, Islam and... more...






