Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“lejla voloder”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lejla voloder”
Skip side bar filters

  • A Muslim Minority in Turkey

    Migration, Ethnicity and Religion in a Bosniak Community

    by Lejla Voloder ...
    Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish citizen, a ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • A Convergence of Civilizations

    The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

    by Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

    Transmission, Transformation and Communication

    Edited by Stephane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao, Kosugi Yasushi ...
    Series series New Horizons in Islamic Studies
    Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each ... Read more

    Free

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The War on the Uyghurs

    China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

    by Sean R. Roberts ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led ... Read more

    Was $39.59 USD Now $16.59 USD

  • The Universal Enemy

    Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity

    by Darryl Li ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a radical departure from conventional wisdom on the topic, The Universal Enemy argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Two Hours That Shook the World

    September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences

    by Fred Halliday ...
    Examines the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and also provides a reasoned approach as to what the future may hold. As the dust settled around the devastation of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, a host of questions emerged surrounding the attacks, the motives behind them and their future implications. In Two Hours that Shook the World Fred Halliday expands on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Life in Central Asia

    Past and Present

    Edited by Jeff Sahadeo, Russell Zanca ...
    This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China and Iran

    Parallel History, Future Threat?

    by Edward Burman ...
    China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years. China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the world's population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons and arming terrorists, and sits on the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves. They are also surprisingly close geographically: Iran is only 700 miles across Afghanistan from China's extreme ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Islam in Central Asia

    The challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir

    by Emmanuel Karagiannis ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 and the U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have intensified scrutiny of radical Islamic groups across Central Asia. This books offers one of the first comprehensive studies of the activities of one of the most feared - but least understood - inernational Islamist organizations in post-Soviet Central Asia: Hizb ut ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Isma'ili Modern

    Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community

    by Jonah Steinberg ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Social and Gender Inequality in Oman

    The Power of Religious and Political Tradition

    by Khalid M. Al-Azri ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women’s rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment of legal instruments guaranteeing equality for all citizens, the fact that the state depends upon ... Read more

    $73.99 USD