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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784535537 | ISBN 10: 1784535532
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporti ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701475 | ISBN 10: 1784701475
In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today. From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Isl ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781842777251 | ISBN 10: 1842777254
Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab ... more
View book details£24.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745328850 | ISBN 10: 0745328857
This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today. Alastair Crooke presents a compelling account of the ideas and energy which are mobilising the Islami ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848133013 | ISBN 10: 1848133014
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845118020 | ISBN 10: 1845118022
Pakistan has been home to the world's most dangerous terrorists. Osama Bin Laden himself is believed to be hiding close to its border. After 9/11, Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, took an astonishing about-turn, and pledged his s ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845112677 | ISBN 10: 1845112679
The global struggle against 'terror' looks set to become one of the defining characteristics of geopolitics in the new century. Despite increasingly frantic calls - especially after the London bombings of July 7 2005 - for western leaders to 'underst ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565090 | ISBN 10: 0863565093
Gilles Kepel, one of the world's leading experts on Islamist movements, was amongst the first to identify Egypt as the cradle of contemporary Islamism. This seminal work, now with a new introduction, gives a profoundly perceptive account of the found ... more
View book details£30.00 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781851683161 | ISBN 10: 185168316x
Developed in response to the events of September 11, this is a provocative collection of articles from fourteen prominent Muslim thinkers. They offer a timely re-assessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world, confronting the views of both ... more
View book details£25.00 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781850653608 | ISBN 10: 1850653607
A comprehensive account of the history, ascendancy and decline of the Taliban movement, the most dramatic manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism since the Iranian revolution. ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781856495905 | ISBN 10: 1856495906
As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyses that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. In a major feminist cr ... more
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