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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty (same as: The Court of the Caliphs: When Baghdad Ruled The Muslim World)

by Hugh Kennedy. xxv, 326 pages, 24 plates. 2006. The "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries.

Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Second Edition. Paperback

edited by Michael Lambek. xii, 679 pages, 2008

Introduction to Judaism. Paperback

by Nicholas de Lange. 269 pages, 7 tables, 2 maps, 4 halftones. 2000. A comprehensive introduction to a major world culture.

History of Islamic Societies. Paperback

by Ira M. Lapidus

1000 pages, 29 half-tones, 27 figures, 39 maps. 2nd edition, 2002

Wetenschapsfilosofie voor Geesteswetenschappen. Paperback

Michiel Leezenberg, Gerard H. de Vries.

264 pagina's, 2007

Streit um den Koran. Paperback

Christoph Burgmer, Christoph Luxenberg, Nasr Hamid Abu Seid, Angelika Neuwirth, Michael Marx, Gerd-R. Puin u.a.

218 Seiten. 2007. 3. Auflage. Aktuelle Forschung der Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft um das "mächtigste Buch der Welt"

From the Meadows of Gold. Paperback

by Mas'udi (Masudi). 128 pages. 2007

Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Paperback

by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. 340 pages. 2007

Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Paperback

by John Monaghan and Peter Just. 176 pages, halftones, line drawings. 2000

Religion and Anthropology. A Critical Introduction. Paperback

Brian Morris.

360 pages. 2006. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists. Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism.

History of Islamic Philosophy. Paperback

Edited by Sayed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman

1232 pages. 2001. Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study. This volume successfully overturns that view. Emphasizing the living nature and rich diversity of the subject, it examines the main thinkers and schools of thought, discusses the key concepts of Islamic philosophy and covers a vast geographical area

Judaism in Modern Times: An Introduction and Reader. Paperback

By Jacob Neusner. 256 pages, 1995

Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon. Paperback

Daniel L. Newman. 144 pages. 2007. The Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon is an invaluable resource for all learners of Arabic. It contains some 8,000 entries, arranged into themes, including flora and fauna, food and drink, the human body, health care, the family, housing, clothing, education, IT, sports, politics, economics and commerce, the law, media, language, geography, travel, religion, arts, science, and natural resources.

Women Embracing Islam: Gender And Conversion in the West. Paperback

by Karin Van Nieuwkerk

2006. 294 pages. A surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity and Western secularism? What benefits do they gain by converting, and what are the costs? How do Western women converts live their new Islamic faith?

Frühe Islam. Schriften zur frühen Islamgeschichte und zum Koran, Band 2. Gebunden

Karl-Heinz Ohlig

666 Seiten. 2007.

Sharia en nationaal recht. Rechtssystemen in moslimlanden tussen traditie, politiek en rechtsstaat. Paperback

Jan Michiel Otto. 248 pagina's, 2005. Fascinerende studie laat zien hoe de sharia in de praktijk functioneert

Modern Middle East. Paperback.

Ilan Pappé. xv, 366 pages. 2nd edition 2010

Dunklen Anfänge. Schriften zur frühen Islamgeschichte und zum Koran, Band 1. Neue Forschungen zur Entstehung und frühen Geschichte des Islam. Gebunden

Gerd-R. Puin / Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Hg.)

400 Seiten. 2007. "Wie der Koran wirklich entstand. Neue Thesen besagen: Das heilige Buch der Muslime fußt auf einer frühen christlich-syrischen Theologie. Eine Chance für den Dialog der Religionen."

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Paperback

by Paul Rabinow. Edition 13. 2007

Islam and Modernity. Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition

Fazlur Rahman

182 pages. Reprint 1982 edition

By Fazlur Rahman. Foreword by John E. Woods

Second edition, Paperback, 296 pages, Ill., 228 x 158 mm. In the new Epilogue, Rahman discusses the rising economic power of the Muslim world and the resulting implicatoins for islamic intellectual, education, and political life.

Islam in the World. Paperback

by Malise Ruthven

502 pages. Third edition. 2006

Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. Paperback

By Edward W. Said.

432 pages. 1979

As Through a Veil. Mystical Poetry in Islam. 2nd revised edition

Author Annemarie Schimmel

384 pages, with  illustrations. 2001

Drawing on a large range of sources, this book covers the development of Islamic mystical poetry in detail, from individual Sufi poets like the legendary Rumi, to such topic as the intricacies of sacred verse and the delightful vagaries of cryptic and nonsense poetry.

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Arabic-English). 4th edition. Hardcover

by Hans Wehr, edited by J. Milton Cowan

Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart: Arabisch-Deutsch.

Hans Wehr. Unter Mittwirkung von Kropfitsch neu bearbeitet und erweitert. xxv, 1452 Seiten. 5. Auflage 1985. Nachdruck 1998

Paperback, 288 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 27 black & white tables, 37 black & white halftones, 234 x 156 mm

There are new sections on faith-based development, and the development dimensions of climate change, as well as greater engagement with development theories as they are put into practice in the Global North. The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, environmental and spatial dimensions. It highlights how development cannot be considered as a neutral concept, but is entwined with inequalities in power at local, as well as national and global scales.