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“abdi elmi”

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  • Understanding the Somalia Conflagration

    Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding

    by Afyare Abdi Elmi ...
    Is peace-building in Somalia possible? Devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, Somalia has long been without a central government, against this background of violence and instability, Somali academic Afyare Abdi Elmi, explains the multiple dimensions of the conflict, seeking a peace-building consensus.Somalia is a failed state and a Muslim state, a combination the West ... Read more

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  • The 15:17 to Paris

    The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes

    by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, Jeffrey E Stern ...
    An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Great Theft

    Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

    by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl ...
    Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Muslims and terrorists are synonymous. In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the recent bombings in London, an unprecedented amount of attention has ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • From Deep State to Islamic State

    The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy

    by Jean-Pierre Filiu ...
    In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab Revolution.' In pursuit of these goals they turned to the intelligence agencies and internal security arms of the 'deep state,' the armed forces, and to ... Read more

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  • Jihad in Islamic History

    Doctrines and Practice

    by Michael Bonner ...
    What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic History, Michael Bonner provides the first study in English that focuses on the early history ... Read more

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  • Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition

    by Ayesha S. Chaudhry ...
    Series series Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
    Modern scholars of most major religious traditions, who seek gender egalitarian interpretations of their scriptural texts, confront a common dilemma: how can they produce interpretations that are at once egalitarian and authoritative, within traditions that are deeply patriarchal? This book examines the challenges and resources that the Islamic tradition offers to Muslim scholars who seek to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Terrified

    How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream

    by Chris Bail ...
    In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates ... Read more

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  • Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Faith, Indian Polity ‘n More)

    by BS Murthy ...
    On one hand, this 'book of logic 'n reasoning' appraises the Islamic faith shaped by the sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina, which together make it Janus-faced to bedevil the minds of the Musalmans.That apart, aided by "I'm Ok – You're Ok", the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller's "Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling", ... Read more

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  • Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey

    Mass Media and ‘Woman’s Voice’ Television

    by Solen Sanli ...
    In 2005, a Turkish woman was shot dead by her son in an 'honour killing' for appearing on a popular women's talk show on television. The show invited ordinary women from lower socio-economic classes to speak of their experiences of family life: marriage, divorce, child custody rights and relations with in-laws. Here, Solen Sanli examines the diversification of mass media in Turkey following ... Read more

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  • The Fatimids

    1 - The Rise of a Muslim Empire

    by Shainool Jiwa ...
    Series series World of Islam
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesEmerging from a period of long seclusion, the leader of the burgeoning community of Ismaili Shi'i Muslims was declared the first Fatimid Imam-caliph in the year 909. Abd Allah al-Mahdi founded the only sustained Shi'i dynasty (909-1171) to rule over substantial parts of the medieval Muslim world, rivalling both the Umayyads of Spain ... Read more

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  • Russians in Iran

    Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond

    Edited by Rudi Matthee, Elena Andreeva ...
    Russians in Iran seeks to challenge the traditional narrative regarding Russian involvement Iran and to show that whilst Russia's historical involvement in Iran is longstanding it is nonetheless much misunderstood. Russia's influence in Iran between 1800 and the middle of the twentieth century is not simply a story of inexorable intrusion and domination: rather, it is a complex and interactive ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Fatima: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Mary Thurkill ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD