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Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545

By Wendy Doniger (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195146707 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 4, 2012, cover price $82.00

Paperback:

9780190628802 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $39.95

The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province Prior to Its Annexation by Russia

By George A. Bournoutian

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9781909724808 | Gibb Memorial Trust, July 31, 2016, cover price $70.00

A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia: The Life and Thought of Husein Ãozo

Product Description: A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein Äozo, a prominent Balkan scholar. Born at a time when the external challenges to the Muslim world were many, and its internal problems both complex and overwhelming, Äozo made it his goal to reinterpret the teachings of the Qurâan and hadÄ«th (prophetic tradition) to a generation for whom the truths and realities of Islam had fallen into disuse...read more

By Sejad Mekic

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9781138695849, titled "A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia: The Life and Thought of Husein Ãozo" | Ashgate Pub Co, July 26, 2016, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: A Muslim Reformist in Communist Yugoslavia examines the Islamic modernist thought of Husein Äozo, a prominent Balkan scholar.

Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam

Product Description: At a time when violent images of the Muslim world dominate our headlines, Western audiences are growing increasingly interested in a different picture of Islam, specifically the idea of Muslim nonviolence, and what it could mean for the world...read more

By Robin Bloodworth (narrator)

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9781522679998 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 12, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: At a time when violent images of the Muslim world dominate our headlines, Western audiences are growing increasingly interested in a different picture of Islam, specifically the idea of Muslim nonviolence, and what it could mean for the world.

The Future of Islam

Product Description: John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam todayâand tomorrowâhe draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest-growing religion in the world...read more

By Peter Ganim (narrator)

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9781522696186 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 5, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: John L.

Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation

In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one t....

By William Rory Dickson

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9781438457574 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one t.

Paperback:

9781438457567 | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2016), cover price $24.95

Islamic Reform in Twentieth-century Africa

Product Description: Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local context to explain the different trajectories of development...read more

By Roman Loimeier

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9780748695430 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform.

Muslims Beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya

Product Description: Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations...read more

By Fallou Ngom

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9780190279868 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal.

Islamic Thought in China: Sino-muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st Century

By Jonathan Lipman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781474402279 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $105.00

The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries A.d.

By Ahmed H. Al-Rahim

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9783447103336 | Otto Harrassowitz, June 30, 2016, cover price $49.00

The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War

Product Description: A journalist explores his family's history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world's first Islamic democracy Shahan Mufti's family history, which he can trace back 1,400 years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan...read more

By Fred Stella (narrator)

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9781522669609 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 21, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A journalist explores his family's history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world's first Islamic democracy Shahan Mufti's family history, which he can trace back 1,400 years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan.

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-sunni Split in Islam, Library Edition

By Lesley Hazleton

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9781504729598 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 14, 2016), cover price $55.00

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

By Lesley Hazleton

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Hardcover:

9780385523936 | Doubleday, September 15, 2009, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780385523943 | Anchor Books, September 7, 2010, cover price $16.00

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9781504729581 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 14, 2016), cover price $29.95

9781504729604 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 14, 2016), cover price $34.95

Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia

Product Description: Hamkaâs Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass...read more

By James R. Rush

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9780299308407 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, June 8, 2016, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Hamkaâs Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass.

Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East

Product Description: From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle Eastâs disintegrationThe Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of todayâs Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present...read more

By Patrick Cockburn

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9781784784492 | Verso Books, October 11, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle Eastâs disintegrationThe Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of todayâs Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present.

Islam and the European Empires

By David Motadel (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780199668311 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 4, 2014, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9780198754343 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $35.00

Cities

By Ziauddin Sardar (editor)

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9781849046268 | Hurst & Co Ltd, June 1, 2016, cover price $22.00

Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

Product Description: Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins...read more

By Peter Webb

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9781474408264 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins.

A Short History of Muslim Spain

Product Description: The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain represents one of the most dazzling periods in European history: in its architecture, philosophy, literature, poetry and urbanism. From the middle of the eighth century to the completion of the Reconquista in 1492, the three great Abrahamic faiths â Judaism, Christianity and Islam â shared towns and ports, market places and public spaces, throughout the Iberian peninsula...read more

By Alex J. Novikoff

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9781848858701 | Tauris Academic Studies, June 30, 2017, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain represents one of the most dazzling periods in European history: in its architecture, philosophy, literature, poetry and urbanism.

9780312523800, titled "Meaning and Signs in Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1979, cover price $25.00 | also contains Meaning and Signs in Fiction

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9781848858718 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, June 30, 2017, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain represents one of the most dazzling periods in European history: in its architecture, philosophy, literature, poetry and urbanism.

The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the WorldÂs Most Precious Manuscripts

Product Description: To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity...read more

By Joshua Hammer

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9781410490032, titled "The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 18, 2016), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean s Eleven.

9781476777405, titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Simon & Schuster, April 19, 2016, cover price $26.00

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9781681681429, titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, April 19, 2016), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert farmers.

Aisha

Product Description: This book portrays one of the most significant personalities in the history of Islam. Taking the misunderstandings and defamation about her into consideration, Aisha needs to be understood correctly. This study by Dr Resit Haylamaz, an expert on the life of the Prophet and his leading Companions, reflects her life in various aspects based on reliable reports...read more

By Resit Haylamaz

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9789752789180 | Reprint edition (Editorial LA Fuente, May 15, 2014), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This book portrays one of the most significant personalities in the history of Islam.

Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism

By Matthew Pierce

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Hardcover:

9780674737075 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 13, 2016, cover price $45.00

Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

By Ousmane Oumar Kane

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Hardcover:

9780674050822 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $39.95

Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Product Description: The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines...read more

By Ronit Ricci

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Hardcover:

9780226710884 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $54.00

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9780226380537 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2016), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history.

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900

Product Description: In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power...read more

By Barbara D. Metcalf

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9780691641799 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.

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