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The Middle East and Islamic World Reader: An Historical Reader for the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary sch...
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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...
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Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in Cairo With the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Ca...
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Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and policed the bodies of subalte...
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The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi'i Islamic Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi'ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the ...
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Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Rooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing ...
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The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more ...
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Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Imperial Citizen examines the intersection between Ottoman imperialism, control of the Iraqi frontier through centralization policies, and the impa...
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The Ant's Gift: A Study of the Shahnameh
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. ...
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Understanding Hezbollah: The Hegemony of Resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Over the last three decades, Hezbollah has developed from a small radical organization into a major player in the Lebanese, regional, and even inte...
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The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Ibn Babawayh - also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq - was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith. Writing within the first century after the vanis...
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic poin...
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The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cult...
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Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...
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Orientalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publica...
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Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“[Shehadeh's] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies.”—The Nation“Rema...
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Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and ...
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Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its re...
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In the Shade of the Qur'an Vol. 7 (Fi Zilal al-Qur'an): Surah 8 Al-Anfal
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surah 8 Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War). Product DetailsISBN-13: 978086037323...
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Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in b...
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The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia...
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Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods. Despite the diverse wealth...
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Literary Spectacles of Sultanship
HardcoverOriginal price $130.99 - Original price $130.99Original price $130.99$159.99$159.99 - $159.99Current price $159.99| /The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as la...
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The Imperial School for Tribes: Educating the Provincial Elite in the Late Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative by Sultan Abdulhamid II to bri...
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