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Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic radicalisation in the Islamic East. Although partially... more...
Historical Dictionary of Islam
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 119.99The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Islam presents a concise overview of Islamic history, religion, philosophy, and Islamic political movements. more...
Impossible Man
Soft Skull Press 2009; US$ 15.95Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the ?Clash of Civilizations.? Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood and his conversion to Islam during... more...
Islam
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2011; US$ 90.95Reflecting recent global developments, the second edition of this illuminating introduction to Islamic history expands its coverage of the Qur’an, Sufism, and Muslim views on human rights, including the rights of women. An expanded new edition of this concise, illuminating introduction to Islam, written by one of the field’s leading scholars... more...
Essential Islam
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 63.00Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice is the ideal beginners resource on the core elements of a faith that, like Christianity and Judaism, offers a guide to holy living and a path to salvationone that like other world faiths has inspired peace and war, tolerance and brutality, enlightenment and abysmal ignorance.||Essential... more...
The Baha'i Faith in America
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 59.00The Baha'i Faith in America sets out to accomplish two main goals. The first is to introduce to the American reading public a religion whose name may be commonly mentioned or heard, yet in terms of its unique history, world-view, beliefs, and laws, is virtually unknown. Such categories provide the essential material for Part I. The second objective,... more...
Situating Islam
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 76.50The formation of any scholarly discourse is contingent upon the creation of a vocabulary and a set of categories responsible for manufacturing the data that it deems significant or not. The discovery of raw data, the manufacture of theoretical or interpretive frameworks that make sense of such data, and subsequent scholarly conventions... more...
Der Traum von der Metropole
Diplomica Verlag 2007; US$ 41.48Hauptbeschreibung Eine Metropole zu sein ist für städtische Gemeinwesen hinreichender Größe ein Idealzustand, genauso wie es für Städte mit ausreichendem Potential ein erstrebenswertes Ziel ist, eine zu werden. Die Möglichkeit einer Stadt, einen Metropolenstatus zu erlangen, hängt von verschiedenen Faktoren ab, von denen drei Hauptfaktoren am Beispiel... more...
Early Philosophical Shiism
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 28.00The first book-length study of a leading tenth-century Ismaili theoretician Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani. more...
Introduction to Traditional Islam
World Wisdom 2008; US$ 9.99Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam. Jean-Louis Michon, a UNESCO advisor tasked with preserving the architectural and artistic heritage of Islam, unveils this lesser-known dimension of the world's second largest religion. more...









