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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong's short history... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order by Kambiz Ghaneabassiri Publisher Comments Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes.... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Allah: A Christian Response by Miroslav Volf Publisher Comments Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? Yale University religion scholar Miroslav Volf—widely known for the much-publicized course on faith and globalization he coteaches with Tony Blair—places this question at the root of the twenty... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom by Irshad Manji Publisher Comments In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural world as well as the fear of... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook by Charles Kurzman Publisher Comments Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman Publisher Comments "I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities." — From the Preface Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John Esposito Synopsis In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the worlds Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself? Who Speaks for Islam... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Qur'an ((Rev)05 Edition) by Muhammad A.s. Abdel Haleem Publisher Comments One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sword of the Prophet by Srdja Trifkovic Publisher Comments We hear it said over and over again: "September 11 changed America forever." Less often do we hear a coherent and informed explanation of what, exactly, changed. What changed, in fact, was that for the first time in American history we have been forced... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an by Asma Barlas Publisher Comments Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be Islamic, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression,... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tasting the Sky : Palestinan Childhood (07 Edition) by Ibtisam Barakat Publisher Comments Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.“It hides inside us . . . Just forget!” ... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Women in Middle Eastern History : Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (91 Edition) by Nikki R. Keddie Publisher Comments This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Venture of Islam #1: The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G Hodgson Publisher Comments The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Publisher Comments The world’s fastest-growing religion is also the most misunderstood in the West. In Islam in the Modern World, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world’s leading experts on Islamic thought, explains why traditional Islam exists in tension with... (read more) Your price: $21.99 New - Trade Paper
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Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy by Peter Gottschalk Publisher Comments In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. In the post-9/11 world, a clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the War on Terror seems a... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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No God But God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A finalist for the Guardian First Book Award In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the faith—in all its beauty and complexity. This updated edition... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Following Muhammad : Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (03 Edition) by Carl W. Ernst Publisher Comments "An impressive scholarly work." — The Telegraph-Calcutta "A rare mix of clear writing and careful scholarship makes this an important purchase for any Islamic studies collection. (Booklist)" "An invaluable resource for this pivotal moment in our... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Qur'an and Woman : Rereading the Sacred Text From a Woman's Perspective (99 Edition) by Amina Wadud Publisher Comments Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Introduction To Islam (2ND 03 Edition) by David Waines Publisher Comments A comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date treatment of one of the world's most dynamic and vital religions.... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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