Muhammad's Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam 9783110674989, 9783110674644

Muhammad's Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam 9783110674989, 9783110674644

Combining vast erudition with a refusal to bow before the political pressures of the day, Muhammad’s Mission: Religion,

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Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East 9780755611973, 9781860648687

The collapse of communism, and the rise of militant Islamic movements in the Middle East, have raised the spectre of a f

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Islam in Russia: Religion, Politics, and Society 9781955055604

Russia’s Muslims, numbering some 15 million, constitute far from a homogeneous sociopolitical group. So ... What does it

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Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia 9780520957862

How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik

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Islam and Power (RLE Politics of Islam) 9781138912588, 9780415644372, 9780203079065, 9780415830751, 9780203381427

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Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity 9780755623525, 9781780760230

For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations

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Arabia: The Cradle of Islam: Studies in the Geography, People, and Politics of the Peninsula with an account of Islam and Mission-work 9781463228842

This book describes the Arabian peninsula on the eve of the First World War.

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Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics 9781477316313

Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education,

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The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality, and the Politics of South Asian Studies 9780755625185, 9781845118730

In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to

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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa 9781685859336

The authors explore the impact of Islam on the lives of West African women, particularly (but not exclusively) in Nigeri

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