The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History, Paperback - Cemil Aydin

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

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Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares ...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

DescriptionA rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers...

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This book will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, Middle East politics, religion, and collective action. Examining the rise of...

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A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

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Human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar takes on Islamophobia through the lens of the brutal Christchurch slaughter. In March 2019, a heavily-armed wh...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mark LevineIllustration(s): 31 b-w photosNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Particular attention was paid to the theory of political marketing, with conceptual definitions developed to better facilitate communication betwee...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hi...

Publisher: Gallic BooksNumber of pages: 1392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 58Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephane Ger...

A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas a...

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Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

Publisher: Belcouver PressNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): William Be...

This work traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication ...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

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DescriptionThis thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at thi...

Reducere. German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote a strong text to explain his belief system in "The World as Will and Representation." Rather than view...

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea ...

Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to t...

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The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since b...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonya (University of Roehampton, UK) NevinIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publicatio...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...