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1	The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future more books like this by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr add to wishlist To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been written about the bitter divide between Shia and Sunni. Yet without understanding their ancient conflict - and its modern embodiment in the power struggle between Iran and Saudi ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Bookseller of Kabul more books like this by Asne Seierstad add to wishlist This profile of the pseudonymous Sultan Khan, proprietor of a Kabul bookstore whose passionately liberal ideas about literature and freedom to read are at odds with his traditional ones about the place of women, has been an international bestseller. It has also been the subject of controversy, as the actual bookseller in question--a man named Shah ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.17! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan more books like this by Dr. Ann Jones add to wishlist A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America more books like this by Moustafa Bayoumi add to wishlist In prose that is at once blunt and lyrical, Bayoumi presents the story of howyoung Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a countrythat often mistakes them for the enemy. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $2.78! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Islamic Imperialism: A History more books like this by Professor Efraim Karsh add to wishlist From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East more books like this by Neil Macfarquhar add to wishlist A "New York Times" correspondent's affectionate, irreverent portrait of the Middle East he's known since childhood--an unexplored place hidden behind the usual headlines see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| SVS
7	Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times more books like this by Margaret K Nydell add to wishlist The perfect introduction to contemporary Arab culture for those who want to understand today's headlines and the complex events playing out on the world stage. From the rise of fundamentalism to the historically uneasy relationship between the Arab World and the West, Margaret Nydell has expanded her highly respected book to bring today's complex ... see all copies from $10.04! new only from $13.28! \| SVS
8	Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think more books like this by John L Esposito, Dalia Mogahed add to wishlist Based on the largest ever study of its kind, this book is the first to present the fascinating findings of the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World. It is co-authored by a bestselling author, Georgetown University professor John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Gallup's executive director of Muslim studies.The horrific events of 9/11 dramatically ... see all copies from $11.56! new only from $13.72! \| first editions \| SVS
9	God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 more books like this by David Levering Lewis add to wishlist At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a revolution in power, religion and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis' panoramic history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. Five centuries of engagement between the Muslim ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith more books like this by Robert Spencer, David Pryce-Jones (Foreword by) add to wishlist Taking on the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches, Robert Spencer sets forth the potentially ominous implications of those teaching for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.78! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach more books like this by Mark Tessler (Editor), Quintan Wiktorowicz (Editor), Charles Tilly, Ph.D. (Foreword by) add to wishlist This volume represents the first comprehensive attempt to incorporate the study of Islamic activism into social movement theory. It argues that the dynamics, processes, and organization of Islamic activism can be understood as important elements of contention that transcend the specificity of "Islam" as a system of meaning and identity and a basis ... see all copies from $16.77! new only from $31.14! \| SVS
12 view cover	Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East more books like this by Jared Cohen add to wishlist Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth--and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. Eight-page b&w photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.42! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy more books like this by Fawaz A Gerges add to wishlist Fawaz Gerges is one of this country's leading scholars of and media commentators on the Middle Eastern. Starting in the late 1990s, Gerges went to Cairo on a McArthur Fellowship, to interview (Arabic is his first language) those involved in the Jihadist Movement, which had begun in the 1970s as a fight against the secularization of Arab countries, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Crisis of Islamic Civilization more books like this by Ali A Allawi add to wishlist Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents - the imperial expansion of ... see all copies from $11.22! new only from $18.21! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 more books like this by Geneive Abdo add to wishlist Gaining unprecedented access to Muslim communities in America, the author traveled across the country, visiting schools, mosques, Islamic centers, radio stations, and homes, and reveals a community tired of being judged by Americans' perceptions of Muslims overseas and eager to tell their own stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage more books like this by Abdellah Hammoudi (Editor) add to wishlist In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations more books like this by Tony Blankley add to wishlist Blankley paints the picture of a Europe in which radical Islam is triumphant--a threat that is not only very real, but that would be more threatening to the United States than a Europe under Nazi domination. But there is hope--and a strategy--for Western survival; and Blankley illustrates what must happen to save the West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World more books like this by Carl W Ernst add to wishlist Carl W. Ernst offers this introduction to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition. He seeks to avoid the traps of sensational political expose and specialized scholarly Orientalism. One out of five people in the world are Muslim; only 18 percent of those, however, are Arab. Ernst moves ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.57! \| first editions
19 view cover	War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims more books like this by Melody Moezzi add to wishlist "War on Error" brings together the stories of twelve young people, all vastly different but all American, and all Muslim. Their approaches to religion couldn't be more diverse: from a rapper of Korean and Egyptian descent to a bisexual Sudanese American to a converted white woman from Colorado living in Cairo and wearing the hijab. These ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $9.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out more books like this by Susan Crimp (Editor), Joel Richardson (Editor) add to wishlist One day, an American on the verge of converting to Islam said to one of the editors, 'Please, I fear I am about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Please give me one solid reason not to convert.' This is the book Joel Richardson wishes he had at that moment. Powerful, often shocking but always heartfelt, these essays from over a dozen ... see all copies from $7.61! new only from $7.61! \| SVS
21 view cover	Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents more books like this by Robert Irwin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Hezbollah: A Short History more books like this by Augustus Richard Norton add to wishlist Most policymakers in the United States and Israel have it wrong. Hezbollah isn't a simple terrorist organization - nor is it likely to disappear soon. Following Israel's war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, the Shi'i group - which combines the functions of a militia, a social service and public works provider, and a political party - is ... see all copies from $5.54! new only from $7.61! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story more books like this by Tamim Ansary (Read by) add to wishlist Tamin Ansary left Afghanistan when he was a child and is now an American journalist and writer of children's books. The email that he wrote on September 11, 2001, in response to the hatred of Afghanistans that he sensed was growing in this country, was a passionate defense of the people of that country at the same time that it denounced Osama bin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu more books like this by Yaroslav Trofimov add to wishlist Yaroslav Trofimov, who had previously worked as a reporter in the Middle East, returned to the region two days after the September 11 attack on America. He spent the following three years crisscrossing the Islamic world, from the rebel badlands of Africa's Ivory Coast to the Taliban-infested mountains of southern Afghanistan. A speaker of Arabic, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Journey Into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization more books like this by Professor Akbar S Ahmed add to wishlist Globalization, the war on terror, and Islamic fundamentalism-followed closely by a rise in Islamophobia-have escalated tensions between Western nations and the Muslim world. Yet, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed believes that through dialogue and understanding, these cultures can coexist peacefully and respectfully. That hope ... see all copies from $5.03! new only from $7.15! \| first editions \| SVS

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