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Malcolm X : the Last Speeches (89 Edition) by Malcolm X Book News Annotation Malcolm X was one of the most important revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. He fought for African American rights during the 1960s and brought the issue into the world's conscience, a societal shift which remains long after his tragic... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Paganism by Barbara Jane Davy Publisher Comments Contemporary Paganism emerged in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s as a new religious movement, although practitioners understood themselves to be participating in a witchcraft tradition extending back into medieval?if not prehistoric?times. In recent... (read more) List Price $1251.95 Your price: $603.00 New - Hardcover
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The Koranic Principle of Complementaries Applied To Social and Scientific Themes. by Masudul Alam Choudhury Book News Annotation Continuing his series seeking to establish the right model of Islamic socio-political order in terms of its epistemology and organization, Choudhury (economics, U. College of Cap Breton, Canada) examines such topics as the principle of... (read more) List Price $129.95 Your price: $64.97 New - Hardcover
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Studies of Religion in Africa #39: The Baha'i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962. by Anthony A Lee Publisher Comments In 1952, there were probably fewer than 200 Baha'is in all of Africa. Today the Baha'i community claims one million followers on the continent. Yet, the Baha'i presence in Africa has been all but ignored in academic studies up to now. This is the first... (read more) List Price $144.00 Your price: $96.48 New - Hardcover
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Circular Causation Model in the Koran. by Masudul Alam Choudhury Book News Annotation The Ahkam, rule of life and action, surrounds the essence of knowledge in the Qur'an in a way that combines the moral and material worth and realization of life in an inseparable whole, explains Choudbury (economics, U. College of Cape Breton, Canada).... (read more) List Price $149.95 Your price: $74.97 New - Hardcover
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Islam in Africa #12: Localising Salafism: Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia Publisher Comments The political transition in 1991 and the new regime 's policy towards the ethnic and religious diversity in Ethiopia have contributed to increased activities from various Islamic reform movements. Among these, we find the Salafi movement which expanded... (read more) List Price $182.00 Your price: $121.94 New - Hardcover
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Understanding Islam: A Primer by Idris Tawfiq Publisher Comments Islam is studied and discussed today on a scale never before witnessed. Yet to what extent is Islam truly understood in the West? And what is driving its rapid growth? The world's second largest religion, with a faithful following of some 1.4 billion, is... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism by Ingvild Flaskerud Publisher Comments The representation of prophets and saints in Islam is erroneously considered nonexistent by many scholars of Islam, Muslims, and the general public. The issue is often dealt with superficially without attention to its deep roots in piety and religiosity.... (read more) List Price $130.00 Your price: $80.40 New - Hardcover
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A Bad Beginning: The Path to Islam by Gai Eaton Synopsis Now in his 80s, Gai Eaton describes how, after a strange childhood completely isolated from other children, followed by a Cambridge education and life as an actor and later as a diplomat, circumstances led him at the age of 30 to Islam.Fascinated by the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.42 New - Hardcover
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We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades Against Muslims and Other Minorities by Anouar Majid Synopsis In 1609 King Philip III ordered the expulsion of all Moriscos—Spaniards of Muslim descent—from Spain in an ongoing attempt to establish a homogeneous state and remove the last vestiges of Islam from his nation. Four centuries later, Spain and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Hardcover
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Modern Muslim Societies (Muslim World) Synopsis Focuses on subjects such as family life, marriage, law, human rights, and Muslim extremism before turning to 14 regional surveys on manifestations of Islam in every corner of the globe.... (read more) List Price $114.21 Your price: $76.52 New - Hardcover
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The Nature of Monotheism in Koranic Thought; Science and Epistemology in the Koran. by Masudul Alam Choudhury Book News Annotation In the second of five volumes, Choudhury (economics, U. College of Cape Breton) presents an epistemological focus on the Hereafter in Islamic socio-scientific knowledge. He explains it as congruent with the Tawhidi attribute of the Oneness of Allah... (read more) List Price $139.95 Your price: $69.97 New - Hardcover
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New International No. 14: Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism; the Last Year of Malcolm X. Publisher Comments Also includes: * The Clintons' Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis * The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class * Setting the Record Straight on Fascism and World War II: Building a World Federation of Democratic... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) by Johan Fischer Publisher Comments Halal: Arabic, literally “permissible” or “lawful.” Johan Fischer's illuminating study proves that in the modern world, halal is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade, and... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World (Muslim World) Synopsis Contains hundreds of short entries on Islamic concepts, religious practices, historical events and personalities, geographical places, and fact files of nations with large Muslim populations.... (read more) List Price $85.64 Your price: $57.38 New - Hardcover
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God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen Publisher Comments What are the roots of todays militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Non-Muslims in Muslim Majority Societies: With Focus on the Middle East and Pakistan by Kajsa Ahlstrand And G Publisher Comments In a world where almost all societies are multi-religious and multi-ethnic, we need to study how social cohesion can be achieved in different contexts. In some geographical areas, as in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, people of different... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $24.12 New - Trade Paper
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The Spread of Islam in West Africa; Colonization, Globalization, and the Emergence of Fundamentalism. by Pade Badru Book News Annotation Without claiming to provide a comprehensive account, Badru (pan African studies and sociology, U. of Louisville) traces the history of globalization and Islam in West Africa to its ancient roots, and demonstrates the effect of globalization on the... (read more) List Price $109.95 Your price: $54.98 New - Hardcover
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Lived Islam in South Asia; Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict. by Imtiaz Ahmad And Helmut Reifeld Book News Annotation Social scientists, religious scholars, and historians from Europe, South Asia, and the US seek to counterbalance stereotypes about a connection between violence and Islam by describing religion in the daily lives of Muslims in the region. Most... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $44.98 New - Hardcover
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Composite Nationalism and Islam. by Sayyid Husain Ahmad. Trans. By Mohammad Anwer Hussain And Hasan Imam Madni Book News Annotation Madani (1879-1957) was born in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, played a leading role in India's freedom struggle, opposed the two-nation theory, and was a great critic of the Muslim League. In this 1938 treatise, he summarizes and clarifies views... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.47 New - Hardcover
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