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This invaluable introductory guide provides a complete and lively summary of Islam, one of the most worldly of the great religions, in which the quest...
Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam. ...
The Islamist Attack on America
In this authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the events of September 11 in America. He discusses the role of the global market a...
Chronicles the history of Islam from the birth of Mohammed to the independence of former Soviet Muslim States, covering a wide variety of themes, incl...
On Religion, Politics and Modernity
For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secular...
Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon - one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore ...
The Search For Meaning
Since the end of the Cold War fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace and prosperity, a concern that was exacerbated by the ev...
Travels in Search of the Soul of America
Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations - often bizarre and sometimes terrifying -...
"From Muhammad's campaigns to the battles of the Mujahidin -- a panoramic view of the 1500-year history of a religion and its people."--Page 4 de couv...
Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam
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In a work of profound and lasting importance, Albert Hourani tells the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new r...
Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam
This is a full account of the Rushdie affair pointing out how the crisis has focused attention on the cultural divide between the West and Muslim coun...
In 1934 Freya Stark, encouraged by her recent awards from the Royal Geographical and Royal Central Asian Societies, set out to explore the Incense Roa...
Shopping for God in America
An Introduction
Mormonism is often viewed as the quintessential American faith. Indeed, "they teach the American religion" was how Tolstoy once responded to a questio...
Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia
A long-range, narrative history of Saudi Arabia by a leading historian of Islam and esteemed commentator on the region Unholy Kingdom reveals a riveti...
Unlike Syria and Iraq, where Europeans were well protected, Persia in 1930 was an independent country only recently recovering from years of lawlessne...
The Aga Khan and the Ismailis
From highland peasant farmers in Central Asia to Canadian industrialists, South Asian buisinessmen and Europe-based scholars, the Nizari Ismailis are ...
A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark
Looks at the highlights of Freya Stark's world travels, explains how she became interested in travel, and describes some of the dangers she faced...
Freya Stark's first experience of the Near East was in 1927, when she stayed in Beirut, taking lessons to improve her Arabic. Boarding at a mission in...