Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft Between the Ottoman and British Empires, Hardcover - Faiz Ahmed

Reducere. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement - the most radi...

Reducere. Considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize, was an outspoken op...

James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law religious scholarship and royal justice undergirded legal pract...

DescriptionThroughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a sim...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

This book is suitable for jurists, doctrinal lawyers, academics and policymakers alike, presenting a novel argument about the place of Islam in Bri...

Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in ...

So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its pre...

Reducere. How Christendom defeated the Ottoman Turks. Historian Diane Moczar pulls back the curtain on one of the most important acts in the drama of Muslim ...

DescriptionA bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and hist...

In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new...

Contributor(s): Author: Shahab AhmedWhat is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradictio...

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

In Unbound in War?, Sean Richmond examines the influence and interpretation of international law in the use of force by two important but understud...

What does the future hold for the world's most unstable region? This title examines the changing casts of characters in this story, the future of t...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is an attempt to explore why Muslims are in conflict with themselves, and why Muslims have been living in an isolation and int...

DescriptionFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almos...

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly...

For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian ...

Explores the volatile and dangerous region in the world. In this story of squandered opportunities, misguided alliances and double-dealing, the aut...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back...

Reducere. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan--the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Sov...

DescriptionOn the fortieth anniversary of the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic RepublicWhen Iranians overt...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

Reducere. After September 11th, Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to...

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Sukrija Husejn RamicNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21Cover type: ...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Sukrija Husejn RamicNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 233 x 158 x 22Cover type: ...

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jonathan ParryIllustration(s): 7 maps.Number of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 2...

Reducere. BOOK ONE OF THE AWARD-WINNING ARI ARA SERIES In an exciting blend of action, adventure, and fantasy author Rivera Sun boldly takes the reader in a ...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alex ConteNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback / sof...