Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hatina (Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) traces the history of the Palestinian Jihad movement from its origins in 1981, in Gaza up to...
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Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the...
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The Koran / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the hegira in...
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The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible ...
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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terrorists An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins we...
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative an...
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signale...
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jih...
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The Book of Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad from the Mishkat Al Masabih
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This selection of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad was made by the internationally respected British Muslim scholar, Charles le Gai Eaton. The...
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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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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original t...
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Rumi
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi (1207 - 1273), was a 13th-century Persi...
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The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sac...
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The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Jonathan Berkey surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from approximately 600 to 1800 c.e. After examining the religious s...
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Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /With this, Martin Nguyen aims to bring Muslim theology into the present day. Modern Muslim Theology argues that theology is a creative process, r...
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The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought
HardcoverOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing po...
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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00$94.99$94.99 - $94.99Current price $94.99| /Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca ...
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From Darkness Into Light
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Illuminating insights of faith. An awakening of the soul. A gentle return to the deep well of wisdom within you. Healing the heart through the powe...
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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Dep...
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The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public an...
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Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social c...
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The New World of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $15.96 - Original price $15.96Original price $15.96$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The New World of Islam, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we hav...
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Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman e...
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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion l...
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