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Language: en
Pages: 305
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and
Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the
Language: en
Pages: 566
Pages: 566
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
As sectarian violence spirals alarmingly in Pakistan the need for a rigorous history of its Shia population is met by Rieck's definitive account.
Language: en
Pages: 267
Pages: 267
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book examines the development of Shi'i Islam through the lenses of belief, narrative, and memory.