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The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in cr...
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In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In just over a hundred years—from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet ...
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world h...
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The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Khojas were generally regarded as part of the Indian Gujarati mercantile castes known as Lohanas and Bhatias who due to famine, as well as trad...
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Decolonising the Hajj: The Pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca Under Empire and Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria ove...
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Muslim Conquests in North Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book provides a detailed analysis of the Muslim conquests in North Africa from the 7th century onwards. The author explores the political, soc...
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Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Timbuktu Unbound: Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa is a cutting edge collection offering a reconsideration of manuscri...
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Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea
HardcoverOriginal price $55.99Original price $55.99 - Original price $55.99Original price $55.99Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea is an attempt to explore the key markers of the Eritrean Islamic history. The book surveys the impact...
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Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Milestones in the History of Islam in Eritrea is an attempt to explore the key markers of the Eritrean Islamic history. The book surveys the impact...
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Knowledge of the Gods
HardcoverOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. We bear witness that Muhammad of 1400 years ago (PBUH) is Allah's last Prophet. Peace Peace I...
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Progressive Islam: The Rich Liberal Ideas of the Muslim Faith
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /'Progressive Islam' is a celebration of faith. The book focuses on the Muslim faith's rich liberal ideas, including freedom, opportunity, responsib...
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The Arabs: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and th...
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Black Arabia & the African Origin of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Is Islam a Religion of the Black Man as suggested by Elijah Muhammad? Or is it a slave religion originated by white Arabs and imposed on Black Peop...
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. This stu...
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I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Omar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James O...
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I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Omar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James O...
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Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...
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