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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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Muhammad and Believers (10 Edition) by Fred Mcgraw Donner Publisher Comments The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa Publisher Comments "My Forbidden Face" provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by S 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Heart of the Qur'an : an Introduction To Islamic Spirituality (2ND 03 Edition) by Lex Hixon Publisher Comments The first such work in English by a western Muslim, Lex Hixon's poetic translations of selected Quranic passages make the mystical teachings of Islam clear and accessible to the Western reader.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding the Koran (04 Edition) by Elass Publisher Comments "Understanding the Koran" is a nontechnical, popular introduction that shows the essence of what the mysterious Koran is all about and how it differs from the Bible. This lay-level introduction is designed to help Christians understand the book and the 1.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Formation of Islamic Art, Enlarged Edition (Rev 87 Edition) by Oleg Grabar Publisher Comments This classic work on the nature of early Islamic art has now been brought up to date in order to take into consideration material that has recently come to light. In a new chapter, Oleg Grabar develops alternate models for the formation of Islamic, art... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sufi Doctrine of Rumi Illustrated Edition by William C Chittick Publisher Comments There are almost no authoratative books readily available for the general reader that provide, in clear and accessible language, an introduction to the spiritual perspective illuminating Rumi's magical poetry. In this beautifully illustrated work... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Themes in Islamic History #2: The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Jonathan P Berkey Publisher Comments Surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from 600-1800.... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford History of Islam (99 Edition) by John L. (ed.) 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 $76.25 Your price: $49.00 Used - Hardcover
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari Publisher Comments At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-old Iranian American grandmother he has interrogated and... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Early Islamic Mysticism : Sufi, Qur'an, MI'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings (96 Edition) by Michael A. (ed. Sells, Tr.) Publisher Comments In one series, the original writings of the universally knowledge teachers of the Catholic protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arab in America (08 Edition) by Toufic El Rassi Publisher Comments A semi-autobiographical graphic novel account chronicling the life of an average Arab-American struggling with his Arab identity in an increasingly hostile nation. From childhood through adolescence, and as an adult, Toufic illustrates the prejudice and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sufi Orders in Islam (98 Edition) by J. Spencer Trimingham Publisher Comments Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Koran : a Very Short Introduction (00 Edition) by Michael Cook Publisher Comments The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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