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  • Radical Pathways

    Understanding Muslim Radicalization in Indonesia

    by Kumar K. Ramakrishna ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    This book explores two of the most crucial areas of the war on terror: 1) why some Muslims turn to violent jihad, and 2) that process in the world's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia. The recent history of terrorism in Indonesia has brought this country into the world spotlight: the Bali night club bombing by Islamists in 2002 was one of the worst terrorist attacks in history. The recent ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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  • Dying to Win

    The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

    by Robert Pape ...
    Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Global Islam

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Countering Violent Extremism

    The International Deradicalization Agenda

    by Tahir Abbas ...
    Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world. However, the role of governments and issues relating to state terrorism and the counter-terror state remain important considerations. This book presents an understanding of the concept of Countering Violent Extremism from a critical terrorism ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge

    European and American Experiences

    Edited by Rik Coolsaet ...
    Osama bin Laden's demise in May 2011 marked only the symbolic end of an era. By the time of his killing, he no longer represented the Robin Hood icon that once stirred global fascination. Ten years after the 11 September 2001 attacks, jihadi terrorism has largely lost its juggernaut luster. It now mostly resembles a patchwork of self-radicalising local groups with international contacts but ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Radical Islam Rising

    Muslim Extremism in the West

    by Quintan Wiktorowicz ...
    Although the West denounces the spread of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, it tends to overlook the development of Islamic extremism in its own societies. Over the past several decades, groups like al-Qaeda have been supported by thousands of citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western democracies. Rejecting their national ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Islamic Veil

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Elizabeth M. Bucar ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Banned in public institutions in France and Turkey, mandatory in Saudi Arabia and Iran, no other item of clothing incites such furious reactions. The Islamic veil – a catch-all term that encompasses everything from a simple headscarf to the all-covering burqa – has, over the past decade, become a heated battleground for debates on everything from women’s rights to multiculturalism.Elizabeth Bucar ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia

    Muslim Intellectuals and the Making of Islamic Reformism

    by Khairudin Aljunied ...
    Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world today. The region has also produced a cohort of reformers who have critiqued the limits of Islamic thought and propounded new lines of thinking with an eye toward constructing a better ummah. Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia captures the progressive and pluralistic nature of Islamic reform in Southeast Asia from the mid ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority

    Edited by Carool Kersten, Susanne Olsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World
    Like anywhere else, the present-day Islamic world too is grappling with modernity and postmodernity, secularisation and globalisation. Muslims are raising questions about religious representations and authority. This has given rise to the emergence of alternative Islamic discourses which challenge binary oppositions and dichotomies of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, continuity and change, state and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Islam in Indonesia

    The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Political Islam: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by John O. Voll, Tamara Sonn ...
    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

    Edited by Anthony Reid, Michael Gilsenan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context. It ... Read more

    $68.99 USD