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“noah salomon”

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  • For Love of the Prophet

    An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State

    by Noah Salomon ...
    For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic state, its possibilities and impossibilities, surprisingly little has been written about how this political ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    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 transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Leisurely Islam

    Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

    by Lara Deeb, Mona Harb ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching ... Read more

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  • Berber Government

    The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria

    by Hugh Roberts ...
    The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • African Civilizations

    An Archaeological Perspective

    by Graham Connah ...
    This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Umkhonto we Sizwe

    The ANC’s Armed Struggle

    by Thula Simpson ...
    The armed struggle waged by the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African president in 1994.Vast in scope, this story traverses every corner of South Africa and extends ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Gender and Decolonization in the Congo

    The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba

    by K. Bouwer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions of the martyred nationalist? Through analysis of Lumumba s writings and speeches, the life ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • What Is Veiling?

    by Sahar Amer ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer’s evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural insight and rich historical context. Addressing the significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

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  • Islam in Indonesia

    The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after ... Read more

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  • Boko Haram

    The History of an African Jihadist Movement

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. This is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of ... Read more

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  • Studies in West African Islamic History

    The Cultivators of Islam

    Edited by John Ralph Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Islam
    First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan.This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD