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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 through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford History of Islam by John L Esposito Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No God But God ((Rev)11 Edition) 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Qur'an : Translation (01 Edition) by Ahmed Ali Synopsis This English translation of the Qur'an is a compilation of the Muslim faith's Final Revelation from God to mankind through the last Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon Him. The Qur'an has a wealth of information--both worldly wisdom and intellectual concepts-... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood Publisher Comments Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Readings in the Qur'an: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Cragg by Kenneth Cragg Publisher Comments Reprint of the 1998 work (Collins, San Francisco). Writing for non- Muslims, Cragg offers an abridged literary (as opposed to literal) translation of the Qur'an, presenting the text in eight segments representing eight main themes. He also includes a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Koran Interpreted: A Translation by A J Arberry Publisher Comments This classic, authoritative translation brings the full meaning and power of the sacred book of Islam to Western readers. "Certainly the most beautiful English version, and among those by non-Muslim translators, the one that comes closest to conveying... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach Publisher Comments Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (05 Edition) by David Nicolle Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive description of Islam's long and dynamic history.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective by Amin 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody Publisher Comments In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh F Farmaian Publisher Comments An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century “A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam, Gender, and Social Change (98 Edition) by Yvonne Yazbeck Publisher Comments These essays examines the impact the religious, historical and political reconstruction of Islam has had on gender. They reveal a much fuller portrait of Muslim women than the usual stereotype of passivity and repression, showing how women from North... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Islam and the West by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ishmael Instructs Isaac : an Introduction To the Qur'an for Bible Readers (99 Edition) by John Kaltner Publisher Comments "Ishmael Instructs isaac is accessible enough to be a text for college-level courses, but insightful enough to be read with interest even by specialists."... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A Allawi Publisher Comments Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to the Lord of Power: A Sufi Manual on Retreat by Ibn Arabi Publisher Comments A 12th-century Sufi text dealing with spiritual ascent. Ibn Arabi's writings have influenced both Muslim and Christian traditions.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the House of Law : Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (98 Edition) by Judith Tucker Publisher Comments A synthetic work about the construction of gender and the status of women in 17th and 18th-century Syria and Palestine, based on legal documents.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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