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Islamic Society
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Non-Muslims in Muslim Majority Societies: With Focus on the Middle East and Pakistan
by Kajsa Ahlstrand and Göran Gunner
In a world where almost all societies are multi-religious and multi-ethnic, we need to study how social cohesion can be achieved in different contexts. In some geographical areas, as in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, people of different religious belonging have, through the ages, lived side by side, sometimes in harmony and sometimes in dissonance. In other geographical regions, as in Scandinavia, societies have been quite ...
Paperback. Price US$36.00
Law and education in medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi
edited by Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa
This volume, focusing on legal education and its place in classical and medieval Islamic civilisation, comprises eight articles written in honour of Professor George Makdisi (1925-2002), seven of them by his former students at the University of Pennsylvania (William Granara, Sherman Jackson, Gary Leiser, Joseph Lowry, Christopher Melchert, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa). One article is by George Makdisi's friend and Islamicist colleague ...
Hardback. Price US$30.00
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
by Anna Kemp
In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France's relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves.
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Islam and the West: A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations
by Christopher Walker
We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a world-wide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher Walker's book turns such accepted views on their head and paints instead a picture of two belief systems which have a long history of toleration and mutual influence. When Islam first appeared in the seventh century it did not appear to be ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$40.00, Our Price US$12.98
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
by John Freely
Aladdins Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$16.00, Our Price US$7.98
Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds
by Anne F. Broadbridge
What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge examines struggles over ideology in the Middle East and Central Asia from 1260 to 1405. She explores two very different ideological worlds: the Islamic world ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$93.00, Our Price US$24.98
Arab Women in the Middle Ages
by Shirley Guthrie
Regardless of social rank and religion, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, Arab women in the Middle Ages played an important role in the functioning of society. This book is a rare journey into their daily lives, their private spaces, and public roles. We ...
Hardback. Price US$55.00
Veränderung und Stabilität: Normen und Werte in islamischen Gesellschaften
edited by Johann Heiss
Norms and values are the main topics of this collection of articles. The tenaciousness, but also changes of norms and values in Islamic societies are followed in various Islamic regions, ranging from Libya (Kohl), Egypt (Danczul), Syria (Fartacek, Pinto, ...
Paperback. Price US$111.00
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