Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Defeating ISIS
Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
This reference shows how to understand the history and tactics of the global terror group ISIS-and how to use that knowledge to defeat it.
ISIS-the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat...
Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist
When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?" it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The...
Sectarianization
Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to 'ancient sectarian differences', putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable. In media and policy discussions,...
Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in...
by Habib C. Malik
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This is a sobering account of the ordeal of Christian Arabs of the Middle East in this era of Islamist radicalism. Although those Christians are leaving their homelands in record numbers, the author laments, the powers of the West have shown little interest in their fate.
Temptations of Power
Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms...
Islam in History
Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous...
Fear and Faith in Paradise
Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Going...
The Transnational Mosque
Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
*Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government...
The Missing Peace
The Role of Religion in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Egypt in the sixties and seventies for the Salem family was a balance between keeping Islamic tradition at home and attending the secular system of public schools, which would provide us with the best of opportunities, and form us into what my parents considered model Muslims. Both traditional Islamic...
by Oliver Borszik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: eins, University of Hamburg (Asien Afrika Institut), course: Radical Islam, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The article deals with the following questions: what does modernity...
Passion for Islam
Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
"Islam's revival is reshaping Egypt and other Arab countries in ways beyond violent politics. The yearning for personal solace, a just political system, indigenous lifestyles, and relevant theology all await satisfaction....Just as the Nile runs through Egypt for almost eight hundred miles, giving...
The Muslim Brotherhood
The Arab Spring and its future face
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lie in the Middle East but it has grown into both a local and global movement, with its well-placed branches reacting effectively to take the opportunities for power and electoral...
On Shifting Ground
Muslim Women in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women” (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).
The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic...