The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency, Paperback

The Syrian Civil War in all its ghastly twists and turns, from initial optimism to barrel-bombing and the rise of Islamic State, are among the subj...

The Terror Years is a collection of ten powerful pieces by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright, first published in The New Yorker, charting the p...

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very li...

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration The Age of Jihad charts the tur...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Everything you need to know about how Islamic State attracts new followers, by a world-renowned sociologist of Islam.

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. Contributor(s): Author: Olivier RoyHow has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attr...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyNumber of pages: 548Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 231 x 158 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Analyses how Islamic State hopes to establish a new bulwark in Central Asia and Pakistan, supplanting Al-Qaeda in AfghanistanPublisher: C Hurst & C...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ryan O'FarrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 204 x 263 x 44Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. Al-Ghazali's classic commentary upon the Quranic verse of lights is translated with authentic excellence by William Henry Temple Gairdner.A revered...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The first annotated translation of the 9th-century Islamic apocalyptic work 'The Book of Tribulations' the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic tex...

Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers su...

Reducere. For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan....And then cam...

Epoca jihadului. Statul Islamic si marele razboi pentru Orientul Mijlociu - Patrick Cockburn

In December 2009, a group of the CIA s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-B...

Reducere. An unprecedented history of the CIA's secret and amazing gadgetry behind the art of espionage In this look at the CIA's most secretive operations a...

Reducere. Religion can be a major source of conflict and controversy between individuals, peoples, nations and races. However, what all the major religions a...

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied ...

Reducere. The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy--and how the West crushed it When Europe's...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Yahya b. Sharaf al-NawawiTranslator: Nuh Ha Mim KellerNumber of pages: 148Publication date: 1996Dime...

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Publisher: OR BooksAuthor(s): Cathy OttenNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 191 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

Reducere. Patrick Cockburn "Cel mai bun jurnalist occidental din Orientul Mijlociu." (Seymour M. Hersh)Din iulie 2014, suprematia ISIS a periclitat stabilita...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi - Dr Joas Wagemakers

Reducere. Renowned historian and international scholar Walter Laqueur offers a sweeping survey of writing on one of the most pressing issues facing the world...

Reducere. Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last US combat troops left Iraq-...

This Element draws together two bodies of work: Islamic social movements and political Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia and explains the transformat...

Takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of ins...

DescriptionAl-Ghazali's Book of the Lawful and the Unlawful is the fourteenth chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, which is widely con...

DescriptionThis is the first English translation of the last chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. After expounding his Sufi philosophy...

Publisher: Gilgamesh PublishingAuthor(s): Baria AlamuddineIllustration(s): 15 Diagrams and graphsNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensio...