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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 299
Pages: 299
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston argues her
Language: en
Pages: 112
Pages: 112
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01 - Publisher: Virago Press
This groundbreaking book explains the divisions within modern Islam that have given rise to the terrorism of al-Qa'eda. With detailed examples, it shows the ori
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century. In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but gradually dis