Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

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108

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9789004207424

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New Title

Religious Minorities in the Middle East

Edited by Anh Nga Longva and Anne Sofie Roald

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

€118.00$164.00

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107

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9789004172319

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The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia

edited by Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, IIUM

This volume addresses the question of the Hadhrami Identity in Southeast Asia from various perspectives, and investigates the patterns of the Hahdrami interaction with diverse cultures, values and beliefs in the region. Special attention is also paid to the Hadhrami local and transnational ...

€84.00$117.00

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106

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9789004171039

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The Qur'an, Morality and Critical Reason

Muhammad Shahrur, Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Andreas Christmann, University of Manchester

This is the first book-length presentation of Muhammad Shahrur's ideas in English, explaining his ideas on the need for a contemporary re-reading of the Qur'an, a reform of Islamic law and the necessity of freedom of belief in Islam, and other vital issues of Islamic thought and practice.

€104.00$145.00

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105

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ISBN13:

9789004169531

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Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: ʿUlamaʾ in the Middle East

Edited by Meir Hatina, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

€113.00$157.00

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104

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9789004165489

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Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean

Edited by Christoph Schumann

This volume analyzes a century of intellectual debates, political ideologies, and literary media in order to track the emergence, spread and decline of liberal thought as a response to both authoritarian rule and Westernization in the Eastern Mediterranean.

€99.00$138.00

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103

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ISBN13:

9789004164369

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Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East

edited by Nefissa Naguib and Inger Marie Okkenhaug

€131.00$182.00

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102

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ISBN13:

9789004155572

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The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds

Joost Jongerden

Drawing on central issues in social sciences, modernity, nationalism, conflict and rural development, this book offers a comprehensive reading of settlement and resettlement in Turkey, not only the village evacuations in Turkish Kurdistan in the 1980s and 1990s, but also previous settlement and ...

€108.00$150.00

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101

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ISBN13:

9789004152779

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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt

Mona Abaza

In a collage of images the author attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Evidently Cairo´s urban reshaping is taking place by pushing away the unwanted slums ...

€108.00$150.00

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100

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ISBN13:

9789004149496

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Speaking for Islam

Edited by Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke

The present volume – grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 – is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority ...

€97.00$135.00

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9789004144781

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Official History in Modern Indonesia

Michael Wood

This volume describes specific reconstructions and interpretations, by the New Order regime, of the ancient Javanese past, the Dutch occupation, the Indonesian Revolution and the coup attempt of September 30 1965. Counterviews, from an Islamic perspective, will also be noted.