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Hezbollah
A Short History | Updated and Expanded Third Edition
Häftad, 2018
192 kr
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Featuring a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developmentsWith Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle …
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village
Av Tone Bringa
Häftad, 1995
1028 kr
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"I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes. In the late 1980s people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990 they were full of optimism for the future. In January 1993 the village was in fear, surrounded by …
Shattering the Myth
Islam beyond Violence
Häftad, 2000
925 kr
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Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. Shattering the Myth demonstrates that these conceptions more accurately reflect the bias of Western reporters …
Avenues of Participation
Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Häftad, 1996
606 kr
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Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives? Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book demonstrates that they do. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) …
Civil Islam
Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
Häftad, 2000
477 kr
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Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and …
Islamic Modern
Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia
Häftad, 2002
529 kr
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How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power, build nations, and shape a modern citizenry? These are among …
Migrants and Militants
Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan
Häftad, 2004
418 kr
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Being part of a violent community in revolt can be addictive--it can be fun. This book offers a fascinating inside look at present-day political violence in Pakistan through a historical ethnography of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), one of the most remarkable and successful religious nationalist …
Muslim Politics
Av Dale F. Eickelman, James Piscatori
Häftad, 2004
460 kr
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In this updated paperback edition, Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori explore how the politics of Islam play out in the lives of Muslims throughout the world. They discuss how recent events such as September 11 and the 2003 war in Iraq have contributed to reshaping the political and religious …
Remaking Muslim Politics
Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization
Häftad, 2004
460 kr
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There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of …
Enchanted Modern
Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Av Lara Deeb
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, …
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza
Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
Av Sara Roy
Inbunden, 2011
494 kr
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Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo …
Growing Up Palestinian
Israeli Occupation and the Intifada Generation
Häftad, 2006
351 kr
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This remarkable book tells the inside story of three young men caught up in the Palestinian intifada. Through their stories, the tangled and tragic web of the past twenty years of the most enduring conflict in the Middle East unfolds before us. For over a decade, Laetitia Bucaille lived in the …
Schooling Islam
The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education
Av Robert W. Hefner, Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Häftad, 2007
780 kr
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Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. Media reports tend to paint madrasas--religious schools dedicated to Islamic learning--as medieval institutions opposed to all that is Western and as breeding grounds …
Ulama in Contemporary Islam
Custodians of Change
Häftad, 2007
383 kr
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From the cleric-led Iranian revolution to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, many people have been surprised by what they see as the modern reemergence of an antimodern phenomenon. This book helps account for the increasingly visible public role of traditionally educated Muslim religious …
Making of the Modern Muslim State
Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Häftad, 2024
323 kr
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An innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion in the Middle East and North Africa In The Making of the Modern Muslim State, Malika Zeghal reframes the role of Islam in modern Middle East governance. Challenging other accounts that …
Necessary Engagement
Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World
Inbunden, 2009
418 kr
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In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public …
Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought
Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden
Av Roxanne L. Euben, Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Häftad, 2009
477 kr
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This anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to Islamist political thought from the early twentieth century to the present, and serves as an invaluable guide through the storm of polemic, fear, and confusion that swirls around Islamism today. Roxanne Euben and Muhammad …
Journeys to the Other Shore
Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge
Häftad, 2008
368 kr
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The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges …
Islamism and Democracy in India
The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami
Av Irfan Ahmad
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India today. Founded in 1941 by Syed Abul Ala Maududi with the aim of spreading Islamic values in the subcontinent, Jamaat and its young offshoot, the Student Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, have been watched closely by Indian …
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, …
Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The State's Role in Minority Integration
Inbunden, 2012
1033 kr
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"The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims" traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, …
Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The State's Role in Minority Integration
Häftad, 2012
418 kr
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"The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims" traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, …
Makings of Indonesian Islam
Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past
Inbunden, 2011
623 kr
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Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford …
Islam in Pakistan
A History
Inbunden, 2018
571 kr
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The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is …
Can Islam Be French?
Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
Häftad, 2011
281 kr
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Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of French non-Muslims to focus on those of the …
Leisurely Islam
Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafes and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the …
Identity and Religion in Palestine
The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories
Häftad, 2012
341 kr
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This remarkable book examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, of the late 1980s. Drawing upon his years living in the region and more than …
Soft Force
Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Inbunden, 2015
1033 kr
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In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these …
Soft Force
Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Häftad, 2015
323 kr
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In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these …
On British Islam
Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shariʿa Councils
Inbunden, 2016
418 kr
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On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?a councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a …
