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  • Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam

    Theological, Political and Social Contexts

    by Meir Hatina ...
    Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism. The recent spate of scholarship relating to suicide bombers and jihadists studies these concepts without a broader understanding of the principle of ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • Martyrdom in Modern Islam

    Piety, Power, and Politics

    by Meir Hatina ...
    The Islamic resurgence in modern times has received extensive treatment in scholarly literature. Most of this literature, however, deals with the concept of jihad and disputes between radicals and their rivals over theological and political issues, and far less with martyrdom and death. Moreover, studies that do address the issue of martyrdom focus mainly on 'suicide' attacks - a phenomenon of the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Arab liberal thought in the modern age

    by Meir Hatina ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East. In intertwining these dimensions—the historic, integrative and comparative, Arab liberal thought in the ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma

    Islamic and Jewish Perspectives

    Edited by Daphna Ephrat, Meir Hatina ...
    Series series Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud
    Utah Series in Middle East StudiesThe issue of religious authority has long fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines: history, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and political science. Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma juxtaposes religious leadership in premodern and modern Islam with examples from the Judaic tradition. By illustrating various iterations of ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

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  • The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition

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  • Escape From Sobibor

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