Palestine as Metaphor
Palestine as Metaphor (Olive Branch Press) gives insight into of the greatest Arabic language poets of the 20th century, the late Palestinian author and cultural icon Mahmoud Darwish. The book…
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Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni
Abu Ma’ali al-Juwayni (d.478/1085) lived in a politically tumultuous period. The rise of powerful dynastic families forced the Abbasid Caliph into a position of titular power, and created instability. He…
Philosophy as Love of Wisdom: Its Relevance to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning
This volume gathers the proceedings of the international conference of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy “Re-learning to be Human for Global Times: Philosophy as Love of Wisdom”…
The Interest Group Society
Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this book analyzes interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory. Readers gain an understanding of the workings of interest groups…
God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics
God at the Grassroots 2016 sees a distinguished group of political scientists, many of whom have been studying the Christian Right for more than two decades, assess the 2016 elections…
Locating the Shari'a
The study of the sharīʿa has enjoyed a renaissance in the last two decades and it will continue to attract interdisciplinary attention given the ongoing social, political and religious developments…
Fatima Jinnah: Mother of the Nation
Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah – author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the ‘mother of the nation’ – this is the first…
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building
In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa’s biggest country. Sudan’s revolutionary regime was built on four pillars –…
Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector
In the twentieth century, when much of present-day Kenya was controlled by the British Empire, many secular newspapers emerged as the products of tensions between Asian and European immigrants, the…
Art and Cultural Production in the GCC
State-driven investments in art and cultural production in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are an important part of the search for longer-term alternatives to longer-term unsustainability of…
Shimmering Mirrors: Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West
In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration of metaphysical…
The Basics of American Politics
The Basics of American Politics covers all the terms and topics needed to understand the nuts-and-bolts of American government and politics. Wasserman uses a dynamic game metaphor to engage the…
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