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  • The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

    Edited by Michael Kemper, Stephan Conermann ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It breaks new ground by providing Western and post-Soviet insider views especially on the features that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)

    by Robert Spencer ...
    "The courageous Robert Spencer busts myths and tells truths about jihadists that no one else will tell." ***—***MICHELLE MALKINWhile many choose to simply blame the West for provoking terrorists, Robert Spencer’s new book **The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)™ reveals why it is time to ignore political correctness and identify the enemy - if we hope to ever defeat them.In a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

    The United States, 1945-1974

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Invisible Arab

    The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions

    by Marwan Bishara ...
    The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program "Empire", combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Of Sacred and Secular Desire

    An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided between India and Pakistan, and stamped Greek cultural and linguistic influence on the region. Over the centuries the lure of the Punjab attracted ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edited by Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Encountering Islam

    Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca

    by Paul Auchterlonie ...
    Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the fascinating story of one ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Du Fu

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Islamic Civilization

    Its Foundational Beliefs and Principles

    by Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi ...
    Translated by Syed Akif ...
    Mawdudi argues that the true understanding of Islamic civilization is possible only by having access to the soul of that civilization and its underlying fundamental principles belief in God, the angels, the Prophets, the Revealed Books and the Last Day rather than to its manifestations in knowledge, literature, fine arts, social life or its system of governance. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Coming of the Mongols

    Edited by David O. Morgan, Sarah Stewart ...
    Series series The Idea of Iran
    The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork for the later Mongol success. In the mid-twelfth century the Seljuq empire rapidly unravelled, ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Iran and Pakistan

    Security, Diplomacy and American Influence

    by Alex Vatanka ...
    The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of around 300 million, have been historically intertwined in various cultural, religious and political ways. Iran was the first country to recognise the emerging independent state of Pakistan in 1947 and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Tafsir: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Andrew Rippin ...
    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