Hurst imprint: 101 books

For Humanity Or For The Umma?

Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs

by Marie Juul Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

In the wake of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror', transnational Muslim NGOs have too often been perceived as illegitimate fronts for global militant networks such as al-Qaeda or as backers of national political parties and resistance groups in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet clearly there is...

A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts

Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

by James Copnall
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was one of the least developed places on earth,...

The Country of Football

Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the...

The Near East

A Cultural History

by Arthur Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline...

"We Love Death As You Love Life"

Britain's Suburban Terrorists

by Raffaello Pantucci
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow-believers into London on the morning of July 7, 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treatment of Muslims worldwide, ideas fed to them by foreign extremists, and...

Cycle of Fear

Syria's Alawites in War and Peace

by Leon Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

In early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of oppression and aggression against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi'a...

Surviving Biafra

A Nigerwife's Story

by S. Elizabeth Bird, Rosina Umelo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018

In 1961, Rosina 'Rose' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria's Civil War, which followed the 1967 secession of Eastern...

The Costliest Pearl

China's Struggle for India's Ocean

by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019

The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial...
by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East,...

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Muslim Archipelago

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Malaysia and Indonesia are seen as bastions of liberal Islam. Is this really true or simply a widely held misconception about south-east Asian Muslims? What is the contribution of the Muslim archipelago to the world of Islam? What can we learn from Malaysian and Indonesian experiments in democracy?...

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Reclaiming Al-Andalus

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the Spanish Orientalists, Emilio...

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The Arabs are Alive

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

In the inaugural issue of Critical Muslim: Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the bullets of Gaddafi's henchmen, Abdelwahab El-Affendi traces the roots of...
by Innes Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are...

Russia's Muslim Heartlands

Islam in the Putin Era

by Dominic Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan...
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