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Voice of the Martyrs Books Sabina Participants Guide
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Bridge-Logos Publishing Foxes Book of Martyrs 2000 Years of Martyrdom
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£15.68
Optimum Publishing International The China Freedom Trap
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£15.29
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC AntiSemitism and Islamophobia
Book SynopsisThe apparent resurgence of hostility toward Jews has been a theme in discussions of Europe; at the same time, adversities faced by continent's Muslim population have received increasing attention. This book offers a historical and cultural clarification of key terms in these problems.
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Cambridge University Press Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
Book SynopsisThis Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially newer religious and spiritual movements, are managed by law and legal mechanisms in the authoritarian theocracy of Iran. It highlights how these phenomena have been affected by the intersection of law, politics, and Shi?i theology.
£20.58
LifeWay Christian Resources Antes de Perder Tu Fe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AntiSemitism and AntiZionism in Historical
Book SynopsisPreviously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History, this book presents the reflections of historians from Israel, Europe, Canada and the United States concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East. Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeffrey Herf. Anti-Semites on Zionism: From Indifference to Obsession Derek J. Penslar. Can There Be a Principled Anti-Zionism? On the Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought David N. Myers. Readjusting Cultural Codes: Reflections on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism Shulamit Volkov. Convergence: The Classic Case. Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism during World War II Jeffrey Herf. An Inseparable Tandem of European Identity? Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism in the Short and Long Run Andrei S. Markovits and Ann Arbor. From Cowards and Subversives to Aggressors and Questionable Allies: US Army Perceptions of Zionism since World War II Joseph Bendersky. Anti-Zionism in Britain, 1922–2002: Continuities and Discontinuities David Cesarani. The French Radical Right: From Anti-Semitic Zionism to Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionism Pierre Birnbaum. Anti-Zionism as a Multipurpose Policy Instrument: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967–1968 Dariusz Stola. Ideology and Realpolitik: East German Attitudes towards Zionism and Israel Angelika Timm. Israel and the International Legal Arena Arieh Kochavi. Perceptions of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Israel Anita Shapira. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism Meir Litvak
£51.29
St Martin's Press Why the Germans Why the Jews
Book SynopsisShows that German anti-Semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religious animosity, as is often supposed. The author demonstrates that it was rooted in a more basic emotion: material envy.
£12.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
Book SynopsisThere is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is attributed either to religious ''fanaticism'' or, alternately, to political and economic factors, with religion more or less dismissed as a secondary factor. The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism examines this complex relationship between religion and terrorism phenomenon through a collection of essays freshly written for this volume. Bringing varying approaches to the topic, from the theoretical to the empirical, the Companion includes an array of subjects, such as radicalization, suicide bombing, and rational choice, as well as specific case studies. The result is a richly textured collection that prompts readers to critically consider the cluster of phenomena that we have come to refer to as ''terrorism,'' and terrorism''s relationship with the similarly problematic set of phenomena that we call ''religion.''Trade Review'… these essays bring diverse and provocative angles of vision to anyone who would want to investigate the complex relationships between religion and terrorism or the broader field of religion and violence.' Nova Religio'… this is an excellent collection … will be attractive to a general readership interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of terrorism and, especially, of the religion-terrorism nexus.' Zhang Xinzhang, Numen: International Review for the History of ReligionsTable of Contents1. Does religion cause terrorism? Mark Juergensmeyer; 2. Religion, violence, nonsense, and power William T. Cavanaugh; 3. Discounting religion in the explanation of homegrown terrorism: a critique Lorne L. Dawson; 4. Religion, radicalization, and the causes of terrorism Tom Mills and David Miller; 5. The role of the devoted actor in war, revolution, and terrorism Scott Atran; 6. Girard on apocalypse and terrorism Espen Dahl; 7. Rational choice and religious terrorism: its bases, applications, and future directions Stephen Nemeth; 8. Terror as sacrificial ritual? A discussion of (neo-) Durkheimian approaches to suicide bombing Lorenz Graitl; 9. Imitations of terror: applying a retro style of analysis to the religion-terrorism nexus James R. Lewis; 10. The LTTE: a non-religious, political, martial movement for establishing the right of self-determination of Īlattamils Peter Schalk; 11. The role of religion in al-Qaeda's violence Pieter Nanninga; 12. Meanings of savagery: terror, religion, and the Islamic State Pieter Nanninga; 13. Where's Charlie? The discourse of religious violence in France post 7/1 2015 Per-Erik Nilsson; 14. Understanding the threat of the Islamic State in contemporary Kyrgyzstan Meerim Aitkulova; 15. Terror and the screen: keeping the relationship of good and bad virtual Christopher Hartney; 16. Understanding Falun Gong's martyrdom strategy as spiritual terrorism James R. Lewis and Nicole S. Ruskell.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
Book SynopsisThe Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade brings together a rich and diverse range of medieval sources to examine key aspects of the growth of heresy and dissent in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the Church's response to that threat through the subsequent authorisation of the Albigensian crusade.Aimed at students and scholars alike, the documents it discusses papal letters, troubadour songs, contemporary chronicles in Latin and the vernacular, and inquisitorial documents reflect a deeper perception of medieval heresy and the social, political and religious implications of crusading than has hitherto been possible. The reader is introduced to themes which are crucial to our understanding of the medieval world: ideologies of crusading and holy war, the complex nature of Catharism, the Church's implementation of diverse strategies to counter heresy, the growth of papal inquisition, southern French counter-strategies of resistance and Trade Review"The authors and editors of this...volume have made a remarkable effort to produce not only a sourcebook with translations of the central texts – both well-known and hitherto unpublished; they have also accompanied it with a state-of-the-art introduction, a guide to further reading and the necessary indexes of both persons and places... the book should not only be reserved for or recommended to...specialists. Easy to read, it ought to be a widespread travel-companion to the hordes of tourists, who more or less clueless travel from castle to abbey to village in the Pays Cathare every summer!" - Karen Schousboe, Medieval Histories“This is a well-compiled anthology of texts that offer multiple and contrasting perspectives on one of the most infamous events of the High Middle Ages. If it is an exciting time to be studying medieval heresy, this sourcebook makes a welcome contribution to spreading the excitement.” –Huw Grange, University of Cambridge, UK Overall, the benefits of the source tape for academic teaching is undeniable. The breadth of genres and meaning of selected texts allow for an in-depth scientific study of key aspects of the Albigensian Crusade as part of courses. - Jörg SupremeTable of ContentsHistorical Introduction. Section 1: Papal Letters. Introduction. Part 1: Innocent III. Part 2: Honorius III. Part 3: Gregory IX. Section 2: Troubadour Poems. Introduction. Part 1: Political Poems. Part 2: Religion Section. Section 3: Inquisitors. Introduction Part 1: Extracts from Summaries of Crimes and Sentences. Part 2. Extracts from Depositions of Witnesses Interrogated. Part 3: Extracts from Depositions after the Siege and Fall of Monts. Part 4: Extracts from Depositions in the Processus against Peter Garcias. Part 5: Extracts from Depositions Relating to the Circle of Raymond Unaud of Lanta. Section 4: Chronicles and Narratives. Part 1: Extracts from the Song of the Albigensian Crusade by William of Tudela and the Anonymous Continuator. Part 2: Extracts from the Chronicle of Peter of Les-Vaux-de-Cernay Introduction. Part 3: Extracts from the Chronicle of William of Puylaurens Introduction. Part 4: Extracts from the Chronicle of William Pelhisson Introduction. Part 5: Extracts from The Tale of the Heretic. Further Reading.
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American Psychological Association Mutual Radicalization
Book SynopsisThis book explores the psychology of how groups and nations become locked in cycles of mutual radicalization, in which hatred and conflict continually escalate, even to the point of mutual destruction.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Radicalization and Conflict in Global Context Chapter 1: A Dynamic Model of Mutual RadicalizationPart I: Islamic Radicalization and the West Chapter 2: Israel–Palestine Chapter 3: Iran–United States Chapter 4: United States–Islamic Jihad Chapter 5: Extremist Nationalists and Islamic Jihadists in the European UnionPart II: Nation-States in Transition Chapter 6: China–Japan Chapter 7: North Korea–South Korea Chapter 8: Pakistan–IndiaPart III: Mutual Radicalization in the United States Chapter 9: Gridlockracy in U.S. Politics Chapter 10: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Their Supporters Chapter 11: The National Rifle Association and the Gun-Regulation GroupsPart IV: Toward Solutions for Mutual Radicalization Chapter 12: Solutions to Mutual Radicalization References Index About the Author
£39.60
Amberley Publishing Gods at War
Book SynopsisThe use and abuse of religious belief in the age-old history of conflict. Gods at War examines the role played by religions.
£18.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Religious Intolerance in America A Documentary
Book SynopsisThe story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that story is a muddied one. This new and expanded edition of a classroom favorite tells a jolting of how American society has been and continues to be replete with religious intolerance.
£30.71
Edinburgh University Press The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam
Book SynopsisThis book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to contemporary Islamist movements including ISIS.
£27.54
Orion Publishing Co Long Shot
Book SynopsisIn September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious assault and, street by street, house by house, took back their land in a victory that was to prove the turning point in the war against ISIS. By turns devastating, inspiring and lyrical, this is a unique account of modern war and of the incalculable price of victory as a few thousand men and women achieved the impossible and kept their dream of freedom alive.Trade ReviewA book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again -- John le CarréSimply outstanding . . . powerful * BOOKLIST *Profoundly affecting . . . There are horrors but also humanity - inspiration, even, alongside the tragedy. A surprisingly lyrical tribute to a much-put-upon people and to fallen comrades in arms that deserves a wide audience -- Fergal Hallahan * IRISH NEWS *Vivid * DAILY MIRROR *Striking and memorable * WALL STREET JOURNAL *A propulsive memoir that captures the grim reality of small-scale conflict and reveals the fragmented politics of the Middle East today * KIRKUS *Gripping . . . His story, elegantly told, will resonate long after the final ISIS fighter falls * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
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Duke University Press Composing Violence
Book SynopsisIn 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state''s and civil society’s responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that crTrade Review"It is through scholarship of the kind offered by Composing Violence that we can grapple with questions of mass violence, impunity and justice after violence in South Asia, and beyond, in any meaningful way." -- Chulani Kodikara * Social and Legal Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Limits of Exposure 1 1. A Minor Reading 34 2. Composing the Archive 56 3. Against the Witness 76 4. Anti-Impunity Activism 93 5. Beyond the Unspeakable 107 Conclusion. Minor, Minorities, Minorization 127 Notes 139 Bibliography 151 Index 163
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Duke University Press Composing Violence
Book SynopsisIn 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state''s and civil society’s responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that crTrade Review"It is through scholarship of the kind offered by Composing Violence that we can grapple with questions of mass violence, impunity and justice after violence in South Asia, and beyond, in any meaningful way." -- Chulani Kodikara * Social and Legal Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Limits of Exposure 1 1. A Minor Reading 34 2. Composing the Archive 56 3. Against the Witness 76 4. Anti-Impunity Activism 93 5. Beyond the Unspeakable 107 Conclusion. Minor, Minorities, Minorization 127 Notes 139 Bibliography 151 Index 163
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Baylor University Press Voices of the Voiceless
Book SynopsisPresents readers with twenty-five essays on a curated selection of images and artifacts from the Keston Archive. Some of the world's leading authorities on religion and communism as well as experts personally involved with the operation of Keston College carefully selected and provided commentary for these images.Table of Contents Introduction New Voices: Activists, Archivists, and Academics on the Keston Collection Julie deGraffenried and Zoe Knox Essays Archival References
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Baylor University Press Christian Persecution in Antiquity
Book SynopsisExamines the motivations and legal mechanisms behind the various outbursts of violence against Christians, and chronologically tracks the course of Roman oppression of this new religion to the time of Constantine. Brief consideration is also given to persecutions of Christians outside the borders of the Roman Empire.Table of Contents Introduction: The Cruelty and Fascination of Ancient Persecutions of Christians 1. The Marginalization of Christianity within Judaism 2. Christianity's Offensiveness: Ideological Parameters of the Ancient Conflicts 3. Legal Procedures and Punishments 4. Persecutions in Rome under Nero and Domitian 5. Christians as Victims of Local Police Actions (111–249) 6. A Decade of Persecution: From Decius to Valerian (249–260) 7. The Fiercest Attack on Ancient Christianity: The 'Great Persecution' under Diocletian and Its Aftermath 8. Later Repressions of Christians in the Roman Empire 9. Late Antique Persecutions outside the Roman Empire 10. The Dispute about Repentance after Apostasy Concluding Observations
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University of Toronto Press Out of Place
Book SynopsisIn Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from isolated agricultural colonies in Latin America to rural areas of CanadaTrade Review'An informative and innovative account of the concept of social exclusion, the policies of Canada's social welfare system, and the logic of the market, as each relates to Mennonite migrants to southern Ontario from self-contained colonies in Mexico.' -- Dawn S. Bowen The Mennonite Quarterly Review April 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One Social Exclusion In A World On The Move Chapter Two Mennonite Migrations And A Common Sense Point-Of-View Chapter Three Market Logic And The Order Of Social Space Chapter Four Everyday Practices Of Social Exclusion Chapter Five Producing The Economic Habitus Chapter Six The Practical Sense Of Self-Imposed Social Exclusion Chapter Seven Social Inclusion: Ideas And Practices Of Reconciliation References Notes
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University of Toronto Press Moors Dressed as Moors
Book SynopsisIn early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-García draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society. Irigoyen-García’s insightful and nuanced analyses of Moorish clothing production and circulation shows that as well as being a sign of status and a marker of nobility, it also served to codify social tensions by deploying apparent Islamophobic discourses. Such luxurious value of clothing also sheds light on how sartorial legislation against the Moriscos was not only a form of cultural repression, but also a way to preclude their full integration into Iberian society. Moors Dressed as Moors challenges the Trade Review"Irigoyen-Garcia’s study amplifies with scholarly rigor our understanding of early modern Iberian cultural politics in ways that resonate with our own cultural locations as scholars at a time of heightened ethnic and national tensions." -- Israel Burshatin, Haverford College * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol 43 no 1 *"This is an interesting and useful book for readers who are interested in the understanding of clothes beyond aesthetics." -- Laura Pérez Hernández * The Journal of Dress History, vol 2 3, Autumn 2018 *"Irigoyen’Garcia’s book is a much-needed corrective to existing studies on early modern Spanish dress, which tend to undermine the diversity of Morisco cultures and their sartorial practices, which, in many cases, were not that distinguishable from others in their local context. This is a must read for any scholar interested in better appreciating the complex relationship between dress, social status, and ethnicity in early modern Iberian. I will certainly assign it in future graduate courses on early modern cultures, as it contributes not only to discussions on clothing, but also to the construction of Iberian identities more broadly speaking." -- Christina H. Lee, Princeton University * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 71 4, Winter 2018 *"This book is well supported by a solid theoretical apparatus, primary sources, and a vast bibliography…this well-written book undoubtedly constitutes an essential work on clothing and identity." -- Filomena Barros, University of Évora * Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 15 *"Moors Dressed as Moors will be of great value to scholars and students seeking to understand the complexity that underpins the history of the Morisco minority in Spain. Moreover, given the current controversies relating to the status and cultural assimilation of Muslim minorities in Europe (controversies that continue to involve debates about clothing), this is research that is still very relevant." -- François Soyer, University of New England * The English Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: "Moors dressed as Moors" Part 1. "Morisma nueva de Christianos": Iberian Christian Moorish Clothing 1. Moors at Court 2. Moorish Clothing and Nobility 3. Unlawful Moorishness 4. Lope's Moors: Self-Fashioning and Resentment Part 2. Moorishness is in the Eye of the Beholder: Moriscos as Dressed Bodies 5. Policing Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Granada 6. Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco 7. Moriscos Performing as Moors 8. Moriscos as Theatrical Bodies Conclusions Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisReflecting on humanity's shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.Trade Review"How did theology, medicine, law, natural science, exegesis and literature respond to the rising demand for credibility and truth? All nine essays in this volume adopt an approach we could call case-based, a CHOICE that renders the individual articles particularly intriguing." -- Vincenzo Lavenia, Università di Bologna * Journal of Jesuit Studies *“Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal have distinguished themselves, not only as gifted scholars but also as notably successful collaborators and editors of collections of essays. Their previous volumes of essays demonstrate a consistently high quality of scholarship and a coherence of thematic focus. The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700, is a worthy addition to this corpus.” -- Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Principia College * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal I. Staging Inquisitions: Nature, Culture, Religion 1. Trusting the “I”: Picaresque Confession and Early Modern Scepticism Barbara Fuchs 2. Feeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice Paul Michael Johnson 3. Conflicting Certainties or Different Truths: Healers and Inquisition in Baroque Spain María Luz López Terrada 4. True Peste and False Doors: Medical and Legal Discourse during the Great Castilian Plague, 1596–1601 Ruth MacKay 5. Policing Talent in Early Modern Jesuit Rome: Difference, Self-Knowledge, and Career Specialization Javier Patiño Loira II. Negotiating History and Theology 6. Stolen Saint: Relic Theft and Relic Identification in Seventeenth-Century Rome A. Katie Stirling-Harris 7. Baptizing “Uncertain Human Beings”? Probabilist Theology and the Question of the Beginning of Human Life in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism Stefania Tutino 8. Truth and Human History in Melchor Cano’s De locis theologicis Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 9. Ambivalent Origins: Isaac La Peyrère and the Politics of Historical Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Europe Carlos Cañete
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University of Toronto Press Out of Place
Book SynopsisIn Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from isolated agricultural colonies in Latin America to rural areas of CanadaTrade Review'An informative and innovative account of the concept of social exclusion, the policies of Canada's social welfare system, and the logic of the market, as each relates to Mennonite migrants to southern Ontario from self-contained colonies in Mexico.' -- Dawn S. Bowen The Mennonite Quarterly Review April 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One Social Exclusion In A World On The Move Chapter Two Mennonite Migrations And A Common Sense Point-Of-View Chapter Three Market Logic And The Order Of Social Space Chapter Four Everyday Practices Of Social Exclusion Chapter Five Producing The Economic Habitus Chapter Six The Practical Sense Of Self-Imposed Social Exclusion Chapter Seven Social Inclusion: Ideas And Practices Of Reconciliation References Notes
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Tyndale House Publishers New Book of Christian Martyrs The
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Stanford University Press The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in
Book SynopsisIn April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main culprits, a miscarriage of justice that would have repercussions for years to come. Despite the significance of these events and the extent of violence and destruction, the Adana Massacres are often left out of historical narratives. The Horrors of Adana offers one of the first close examinations of these events, analyzing sociopolitical and economic transformations that culminated in a cataclysm of violence. Bedross Der Matossian provides voice and agency to all involved in the massacres—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Drawing on primary sources in a dozen languages, he develops an interdisciplinary approach to understand the rumors and emotions, public spheres and humanitarian interventions that together informed this complex event. Ultimately, through consideration of the Adana Massacres in micro-historical detail, this book offers an important macrocosmic understanding of ethnic violence, illuminating how and why ordinary people can become perpetrators.Trade Review"The Horrors of Adana is a truly groundbreaking and highly nuanced exploration of intercommunal, sectarian, and nationalist violence in the late Ottoman Empire. A must-read for scholars of the modern Middle East."—Ussama Makdisi, Rice University, author of Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World"The Horrors of Adana is an outstanding analysis of a massacre never before deeply studied. Bedross Der Matossian offers a thorough inquiry into the perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and social-political context, useful to all those interested in understanding processes of mass violence."—Jacques Semelin, Sciences Po Paris, author of Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide"With The Horrors of Adana, the Adana Massacres get their own story, a story that needs telling. Bedross Der Matossian's deeply researched and engagingly argued book situates Adana in a longer trajectory of 'forgotten' massacres and as part of Ottoman history more broadly."—Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill"Der Matossian's well-written and meticulously researched book, utilizing rare documentation from fifteen different archives, employing an interdisciplinary perspective and an objective, conversational tone, offers insights into this untold history."—Eleni Sakellis The National Herald"Der Matossian draws on an impressive array of sources in Armenian, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, and both Ottoman and modern Turkish to paint an all-encompassing picture of the events from the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders."—Samuel Sweeney, The American Conservative"Der Matossian himself is rather modest about his aims and achievements, but I do not have to be, so here goes: The Horrors of Adana is the first broad, deep, and analytical take on the Adana massacres. The introduction alone is a tour de force... The author's detailed micro level analysis of the actions and reactions of perpetrators, bystander, and victims – who fight back, outnumbered and outgunned – is dispassionate, evenhanded, and yet reads like a thriller."—Matthias Bjørnlund, International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies"By analyzing the structure of violence from various perspectives, Professor Der Matossian was able to bring attention to the spiral of violence that occurred in Adana while explaining the multi-faceted, complex phenomenon of massacre and violence."—Natalie Agazarian, Hye Sharzhoom"The Horrors of Adana is a rich work on an episode which has never before been investigated so closely.... Even for readers new to the region and its history, the nuanced and multi-layered presentation of this complex time period is engaging. It also offers much to think about in echoing other places and our own era."—Nareg Seferian, Armenian Review"Written by the pioneer historian who has worked on one of the most horrendous events that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century, The Horrors of Adana would surely be an insightful and commendable contribution to the vast literature on ethnoreligious conflict, massacres, genocide, and ethnic conflict."—Önder Uçar, New Perspectives on Turkey"This beautifully written, carefully constructed, and convincingly argued book is based on deep reading of archival and published sources and a strong command of the existing, multilingual literature, and it is judicious in its conclusions. Der Matossian not only deploys the best tools of his own historical profession but appreciates the insights, findings, and techniques of qualitative political science and historical sociology. This is a major and original contribution to Armenian historiography, late Ottoman history, and the comparative study of ethnic violence."—Ronald Grigor Suny, American Historical Review
£86.40
Stanford University Press The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in
Book SynopsisIn April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main culprits, a miscarriage of justice that would have repercussions for years to come. Despite the significance of these events and the extent of violence and destruction, the Adana Massacres are often left out of historical narratives. The Horrors of Adana offers one of the first close examinations of these events, analyzing sociopolitical and economic transformations that culminated in a cataclysm of violence. Bedross Der Matossian provides voice and agency to all involved in the massacres—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Drawing on primary sources in a dozen languages, he develops an interdisciplinary approach to understand the rumors and emotions, public spheres and humanitarian interventions that together informed this complex event. Ultimately, through consideration of the Adana Massacres in micro-historical detail, this book offers an important macrocosmic understanding of ethnic violence, illuminating how and why ordinary people can become perpetrators.Trade Review"The Horrors of Adana is a truly groundbreaking and highly nuanced exploration of intercommunal, sectarian, and nationalist violence in the late Ottoman Empire. A must-read for scholars of the modern Middle East."—Ussama Makdisi, Rice University, author of Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World"The Horrors of Adana is an outstanding analysis of a massacre never before deeply studied. Bedross Der Matossian offers a thorough inquiry into the perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and social-political context, useful to all those interested in understanding processes of mass violence."—Jacques Semelin, Sciences Po Paris, author of Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide"With The Horrors of Adana, the Adana Massacres get their own story, a story that needs telling. Bedross Der Matossian's deeply researched and engagingly argued book situates Adana in a longer trajectory of 'forgotten' massacres and as part of Ottoman history more broadly."—Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill"Der Matossian's well-written and meticulously researched book, utilizing rare documentation from fifteen different archives, employing an interdisciplinary perspective and an objective, conversational tone, offers insights into this untold history."—Eleni Sakellis The National Herald"Der Matossian draws on an impressive array of sources in Armenian, Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, and both Ottoman and modern Turkish to paint an all-encompassing picture of the events from the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders."—Samuel Sweeney, The American Conservative"Der Matossian himself is rather modest about his aims and achievements, but I do not have to be, so here goes: The Horrors of Adana is the first broad, deep, and analytical take on the Adana massacres. The introduction alone is a tour de force... The author's detailed micro level analysis of the actions and reactions of perpetrators, bystander, and victims – who fight back, outnumbered and outgunned – is dispassionate, evenhanded, and yet reads like a thriller."—Matthias Bjørnlund, International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies"By analyzing the structure of violence from various perspectives, Professor Der Matossian was able to bring attention to the spiral of violence that occurred in Adana while explaining the multi-faceted, complex phenomenon of massacre and violence."—Natalie Agazarian, Hye Sharzhoom"The Horrors of Adana is a rich work on an episode which has never before been investigated so closely.... Even for readers new to the region and its history, the nuanced and multi-layered presentation of this complex time period is engaging. It also offers much to think about in echoing other places and our own era."—Nareg Seferian, Armenian Review"Written by the pioneer historian who has worked on one of the most horrendous events that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century, The Horrors of Adana would surely be an insightful and commendable contribution to the vast literature on ethnoreligious conflict, massacres, genocide, and ethnic conflict."—Önder Uçar, New Perspectives on Turkey"This beautifully written, carefully constructed, and convincingly argued book is based on deep reading of archival and published sources and a strong command of the existing, multilingual literature, and it is judicious in its conclusions. Der Matossian not only deploys the best tools of his own historical profession but appreciates the insights, findings, and techniques of qualitative political science and historical sociology. This is a major and original contribution to Armenian historiography, late Ottoman history, and the comparative study of ethnic violence."—Ronald Grigor Suny, American Historical Review
£23.39
Skyhorse Publishing The Jihadi Next Door
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Manchester University Press The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on
Book SynopsisThe ‘War on Terror’ ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a homogenised Muslim ‘Other’ framed as a perpetual enemy, has contributed towards a global Islamophobic narrative. This edited international volume examines the connections between interpersonal and institutional anti-Muslim racism that have contributed to the growth and emboldening of nativist and populist protest movements globally. It maps out categories of Islamophobia, revealing how localised histories, conflicts and contemporary geopolitical realities have textured the ways that Islamophobia has manifested across the global North and South. At the same time, it seeks to highlight activism and resistance confronting Islamophobia.Trade Review'Bakali and Hafez’s edited volume illustrates the context-specific expressions of anti-Muslim racism as well as the symbiotic relationship between interpersonal and institutional racisms. Through this multi-scalar analysis, the edited volume does well to expand scholarship beyond critiques of Orientalism in Western societies by following the permutations of anti-Muslim racism and their articulation with preexisting racial formations in specific contexts.'Nicole Nguyen, The Middle East Journal'Naved Bakali and Farid Hafez’s edited volume The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and Islam seeks to illuminate the complicated historical roots of Islamophobia and its current iterations, both global and local; all of these topics are covered, at least in part, in this ambitious collection. Overall, it is a successful tour of the world’s anti-Muslim hostility.'Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, Reading Religion -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: understanding Islamophobia across the global North and South in the context of the War on Terror - Naved Bakali and Farid HafezPart I: Islamophobia in settler societies1 The racialised logics of Islamophobia in Canada - Uzma Jamil2 Islamophobia in Australia: racialising the Muslim subject through War on Terror tropes in public, media and political discourse - Derya Iner and Peter McManus3 The mainstreaming of Islamophobia in US politics - Todd GreenPart II: Islamophobia in former imperial states4 Islamophobia in the Netherlands: constructing mythologies surrounding reverse colonisation and Islamisation through politics and protest movements - Leyla Yildirim5 Criminalising Muslim political agency from colonial times to today: the case of Austria - Farid Hafez6 Islamophobia in the UK: the vicious cycle of institutionalised racism and reinforcing the Muslim ‘other’ - Tahir Abbas7 ‘French-style’ Islamophobia: from historical roots to electioneering exploitation - Francois BurgatPart III: Islamophobia in formally colonised states from the Global South8 The framing of Muslims as threatening ‘others’ in the tri-border region of Brazil-Argentina-Paraguay - Silvia Montenegro9 Think-tanks and the news media’s contribution in the construction of Islamophobia in South Africa - Mohamed Natheem HendricksPart IV: Islamophobia at the ‘breaking point’10 India, Islamophobia, and the Hindutva playbook - Farhan Mujahid Chak11 Islamophobia and anti-Uyghur racism in China - Sean R. Roberts12 The Rohingya genocide through the prism of War on Terror logic - Naved BakaliIndex
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Founding of Israel: The Journey to a Jewish
Book SynopsisHere [In the State if Israel] their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance, and gave the world the Eternal Book of Books.' David Ben-Gurion, 14 May 1948 Seventy years ago in 1948 the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. For many, the Jews did not belong in Palestine and around them many nations sought to eradicate the new state from the map. How did the State arise? What led to the founding of Israel? This book sets out to give a chronological journey of the Jewish people from the time Abraham came out of the land of Ur 3,000 years ago, until 6 million of them died in the horror of the Holocaust under Hitler and his Nazi regime. It recounts the many expulsions from the land in which they lived, the suffering under Babylonians, Greek, Persians, the destruction of their Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, and finally, genocide and the expulsion by the Romans in 132 AD creating a diaspora across the world. The Jews would be charged with killing God and throughout the following centuries would be expelled from countries, burned alive after being locked in Synagogues and at the stake, have all their property seized and herded into ghettoes. All of this until that fatal Holocaust, which attempted to wipe them from the face of the earth. This book recounts their story to achieve a homeland, using a wide-range of historical documents to tell the story of humiliation, suffering, poverty and death. It tells of religious persecution that would not let them rest, and as their journey enters the twentieth century, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how governments manipulated the Middle East and exacerbated divisions.
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Basic Books Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a
Book SynopsisThe staggering story of the most influential Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regimeBlood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a Chinese poet and journalist arrested by the regime in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Alone among the victims of Mao's dictatorship, she maintained a stubborn and open opposition during the years she was imprisoned. She rooted her dissent in her Christian faith--and expressed it in long, prophetic writings done in her own blood, and at times on her clothes and on cloth torn from her bedsheets.Miraculously, Lin Zhao's prison writings survived, though they have only recently come to light. Drawing on these works and others from the years before her arrest, as well as interviews with friends, family, and classmates, Lian Xi paints an indelible portrait of courage and faith in the face of unrelenting evil.
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the
Book SynopsisThe war against ISIS and the so-called caliphate it declared across Syria and Iraq was a battle to define not just the Middle East but the wider world. Growing from the aftermath of the U.S. war in Iraq and a brutal civil war in Syria, ISIS sought to usher in a new era of conflict as it launched terrorist attacks across Europe, while inflicting a savage extremism on the population in controlled. And the U.S. developed a new kind of war to stop it - one that that relied heavily on the sacrifices of local soldiers who fought on behalf of the American cause. This struggle came to a climax in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the crown jewel of the caliphate, in the deadliest urban combat the world had seen in a generation. Few journalists got as close to the war, and to protagonists on both sides of it, as Mike Giglio, who spent six years reporting on the rise and fall of the ISIS proto-state. He travelled along the Turkey-Syria border with the smugglers and operatives who worked in ISIS's criminal and financial networks, accompanied antiquities traders to visit stolen artefacts that helped to fund the ISIS war effort, sat with human traffickers at the heart of the migrant crisis, and met with ISIS defectors as they tried to free their minds from its grip. He also embedded often with the local soldiers on the front lines of the international effort to stop ISIS, tracking a war effort that saw these soldiers take heavy casualties as U.S. special forces worked in the shadows and U.S. pilots and drone operators dropped bombs. In Mosul, the war's central battle, he travelled in the attacking convoys of elite Kurdish and Iraqi commandos as car bombs plunged into their ranks and ISIS drones dropped grenades. Behind the drama on the battlefield, the suspense was in how much ISIS might change the world before its cities fell and how many of America's allies it could kill along the way. The story is a chilling portrait of the destructive power of extremism and of the tenacity and astonishing courage required to defeat it.
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Hendrickson Publishers Inc Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Other Press LLC Good People in an Evil Time: Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War
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Prometheus Books Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
Book SynopsisIn an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents an incisive analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes a long way toward explaining the gulf between Western and Middle Eastern cultural perspectives. Salzman focuses on two basic principles of tribal organization that have become central principles of Middle Eastern life—balanced opposition (each group of whatever size and scope is opposed by a group of equal size and scope) and affiliation solidarity (always support those closer against those more distant). On the positive side, these pervasive structural principles support a decentralized social and political system based upon individual independence, autonomy, liberty, equality, and responsibility. But on the negative side, Salzman notes a pattern of contingent partisan loyalties, which results in an inbred orientation favoring particularism: an attitude of my tribe against the other tribe, my ethnic group against the different ethnic group, my religious community against another religious community. For each affiliation, there is always an enemy. Salzman argues that the particularism of Middle Eastern culture precludes universalism, rule of law, and constitutionalism, which all involve the measuring of actions against general criteria, irrespective of the affiliation of the particular actors. The result of this relentless partisan framework of thought has been the apparently unending conflict, both internal and external, that characterizes the modern Middle East.Trade Review"While tribalism is in one sense culturally pervasive in the Middle East, tribal practices are less swathed in sacredness than explicitly Koranic symbols and commandments--and are therefore more susceptible to criticism and debate. Even jihad and suicide bombing can be interpreted through a tribal lens. We've taught ourselves a good deal about Islam over the past seven years. Yet tribalism is at least half the cultural battle in the Middle East, and the West knows little about it. Learning how to understand and critique the Islamic Near East through a tribal lens will open up a new and smarter strategy for change. The way to begin is by picking up Salzman's Culture and Conflict in the Middle East." -- Stanley Kurtz, Weekly Standard, 14th April 2008. "Salzman has made an important contribution that is must reading." --Jewish Voice and Opinion, Englewood, NJ, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Making a Living in the Middle East: Life in the Valleys, Deserts, and Mountains; Friends and Enemies: Security and Defence in the Middle East; Defence and Offence: Honour and Rank in the Middle East; Turning Toward the World: Tribal Organisation and Predatory Expansion; Tribe and State: The Dynamics of Incompatibility; Root Causes: The Middle East Today and Tomorrow; References; Index.
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. A Star in the East: The Rise of Christianity in
Book Synopsis What is the state of Christianity in China? Some scholars say that China is invulnerable to religion. In contrast, others say that past efforts of missionaries have failed, writing off those converted as nothing more than “rice Christians” or cynical souls who had frequented the missions for the benefits they provided. Some wonder if the Cultural Revolution extinguished any chances of Christianity in China. Rodney Stark and Xiuhua Wang offer a different perspective, arguing that Christianity is alive, well, and on the rise. Stark approaches the topic from an extensive research background in Christianity and Chinese history, and Wang provides an inside look at Christianity and its place in her home country of China. Both authors cover the history of religion in China, disproving older theories concerning the number of Christians and the kinds of Christians that have emerged in the past 155 years. Stark and Wang claim that when just considering the visible Christians—those not part of underground churches—thousands of Chinese are still converted to Christianity daily, and forty new churches are opening each week. A Star in the East draws on two major national surveys to sketch a close-up of religion in China. A reliable estimate is that by 2007 there were approximately 60 million Christians in China. If the current growth rate were to hold until 2030, there would be more Christians in China—about 295 million—than in any other nation. This trend has significant implications, not just for China but for the greater world order. It is probable that Chinese Christianity will splinter into denominations, likely leading to the same political, social, and economic ramifications seen in the West today. Whether you’re new to studying Christianity in China or whether this has been your area of interest for years, A Star in the East provides a reliable, thought-provoking, and engaging account of the resilience of the Christian faith in China and the implications it has for the future. Trade Review“Sociologist Rodney Stark has done it again. Readers who enjoyed his earlier works on the Crusades, the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and Christianity’s role in ending slavery will be grateful that he has now applied his brilliance to China.” — David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing and other books, and former China correspondent for TIME magazine “This is a concise, well-written, and stimulating account of the growth and prospects of Christianity in the world’s largest socialist society. Rodney Stark, a leading theorist in the sociology of religion, well-known for his explanations of the rise of Christianity in the Mediterranean world, collaborates with a young scholar from mainland China to describe and explain the extraordinary recent growth of Christianity in China. Highly recommended.” — Graeme Lang, retired professor of sociology (2014), and founder of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong “In this brief, very readable account of Christianity in China, authors Stark and Wang argue that cultural incongruity is what has made an opening in Chinese hearts and minds for the Christian faith, while familial and social networking account for the robust patterns of conversion. And contrary to theories that reduce religion to consolation for the poor and marginal, Stark and Wang find that Chinese Christianity is more favored by the affluent and well-educated. This book is a valuable addition to the growing effort to understand Christianity’s rise in China.” — Joel Carpenter, Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, Calvin College “Books on contemporary China have proliferated in recent years, and plenty of them address the remarkable growth of Christianity. What makes A Star in the East wholly distinctive though— and so very valuable—is its reliance on credible and strictly current quantitative evidence. The book thus provides an essential foundation for any future discussion of the religious scene in contemporary China.” — Philip Jenkins, Baylor UniversityTable of ContentsPreface / ix Chapter 1: The New Religious Awakening in China / 1 Chapter 2: Christian Missions to China: 1860–1950 / 13 Chapter 3: Repression and Christian Resistance / 43 Chapter 4: Converting the Educated / 75 Chapter 5: Converting Rural China / 91 Chapter 6: Future Prospects and Consequences / 113 Notes / 127 Bibliography / 131 Index / 141
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to
Book SynopsisLeaving Islam for Christianity cost her more than she imagined, but gave more than she could have dreamed.Rifqa Bary grew up in a devout Muslim home, obediently following her parents’ orders to practice the rituals of Islam. But God was calling her to freedom and love. He was calling her to true faith. He was calling her to give up everything. Hiding in the Light is the story of Rifqa’s remarkable spiritual journey from Islam to Christianity. It is also the untold story of how she ran from her father’s threats to find refuge with strangers in Florida, only to face a controversial court case that reached national headlines. Most of all, it is the story of a young girl who made life-changing sacrifices to follow Jesus—and who inspires us to do the same.
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University Press of New England Inferno in Chechnya The RussianChechen Wars the
Book SynopsisThe history of the Chechen wars and the origins of terrorism in Russia and beyond
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Michigan State University Press Mimetic Theory and World Religions
Book SynopsisThose who anticipated the demise of religion and the advent of a peaceful, secularized global village have seen the last two decades confound their predictions. René Girard’s mimetic theory is a key to understanding the new challenges posed by our world of resurgent violence and pluralistic cultures and traditions.Girard sought to explain how the Judeo-Christian narrative exposes a founding murder at the origin of human civilization and demystifies the bloody sacrifices of archaic religions. Meanwhile, his book Sacrifice, a reading of conflict and sacrificial resolution in the Vedic Brahmanas, suggests that mimetic theory’s insights also resonate with several non-Western religious and spiritual traditions.This volume collects engagements with Girard by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism and situates them within contemporary theology, philosophy, and religious studies.
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Bottom of the Hill Publishing Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Potomac Books Inc The Path to Salvation
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Prometheus Books Veiled Atrocities: True Stories of Oppression in
Book SynopsisA deaf-mute woman waiting for her brother to pick her up in front of shop window is arrested by two members of the Saudi "morality police" (mutawas) on suspicion of prostitution. They report their allegation to the governor of Riyadh, who accepts it without question and passes sentence. The next Friday she is stoned to death in public. A German woman married to a Saudi man makes the mistake of taking a taxi downtown without a male escort. For her "crime" she is arrested, raped, and thrown into prison. Later her German-Saudi baby son is taken away and she is deported to Cyprus without passport and money. A Syrian truck driver is accused of stealing the truck he is driving. As a consequence, both of his hands are amputated. Are these incredible but true incidents merely aberrations, the result of a few power-crazed officials acting outrageously outside the reach of a generally law-abiding society? Unfortunately, they are all too common in the theocratic police state that is contemporary Saudi Arabia. As the author vividly recounts in this shocking expose, in the wealthy Saudi oil kingdom there is no such thing as secular law or modern courts. Instead, Saudi princes create the laws, based on Sharia, Islamic law derived from the Koran and Hadith, and the muttawas act as judges, enforcers, and executioners. The author lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for many years. A fluent speaker of Arabic, he was told about the many appalling incidents reported in this book by victims and their friends and relatives. He cross-checked all the accounts here given through multiple interviews. Amazingly, in some cases, the actual victimizers themselves openly, often with condescending and smug contempt, corroborated the events. This revealing portrait of intolerance and social oppression presents an image that foreign reporters never see in the carefully controlled Saudi kingdom.
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Academic Studies Press Shoah through Muslim Eyes
Book SynopsisIn Shoah Through Muslim Eyes, the author discusses her journey with Judaism as a Muslim. Her book is based on the struggle with antisemitism within Muslim communities and her interviews with Shoah survivors. Rejecting polemical myths about the Holocaust and Jews, Afridi offers a new way of creating understanding between the two communities through the acceptance the enormity of the Shoah. Her journey is both personal and academic: the reader can find nuances of her belief in Islam, principles of justice, and the loneliness of such a journey. The chapters discuss the Holocaust and how it was in truth unprecedented, interviews with survivors, antisemitism and Islamophobia, camps in Arab lands, and Islam and memory. Afridi includes newly-uncovered Muslim-Arab narratives that enhance our understanding of the reach of the Holocaust into Muslim lands under the Vichy and Nazi governments.Trade Review"I just finished reading one of the most profound and important books that I have read in recent years[...] as inspirational as it is informative." - Ron Cornish, Huffington Post blogTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Why the Shoah? Chapter Two: My Journey through Academia, Jerusalem, and Dachau Chapter Three: Why is the Shoah Unprecedented? Chapter Four: The Document Chapter Five: Is Islam Antisemitic? No. Chapter Six: Muslims and the Memory of a Colonial Holocaust Conclusion Afterword Bibliography Index
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Academic Studies Press Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and
Book SynopsisAfter Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, Zionism and the eventual reality of the State of Israel were framed within his guiding principle, embraced by his Sulzberger family successor, that Judaism is a religion and not a national identity. Apprehensive lest the loyalty of American Jews to the United States be undermined by the existence of a Jewish state, they embraced an anti-Zionist critique that remained embedded in its editorials, on the Opinion page and in its news coverage. Through the examination of evidence drawn from its own pages, this book analyzes how all the news “fit to print” became news that fit the Times’ discomfort with the idea, and since 1948 the reality, of a thriving democratic Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.Trade Review“Auerbach subjects the New York Times to a meticulously researched analysis of its attitude over the years 1896 to 2016 towards Zionism and Israel. … Print to Fit leads the reader through Israel’s story along an unfamiliar route. The New York Times is one of the world’s leading newspapers. It is regarded as a ‘journal of record.’ For more than 120 years it has been shaping American opinion. Jerold S Auerbach argues convincingly that, as far as Zionism and Israel are concerned, the paper has consistently been far from objective in its editorial policy, has fallen short of its own high standards, and has consequently failed in its journalistic obligations to the public.” —Neville Teller, The Jerusalem Report -- Neville Teller * The Jerusalem Report *“Jerold Auerbach’s archly titled new study Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896–2016 is a well-researched and, for the most part, damning brief of the Times’s news coverage and editorial attitudes toward Zionism and Israel for over a century. … Print to Fit was written well before the Jew-dog cartoon scandal, but it does answer the question about it with which this review began: How could such an image make it to the pages of an edition of the New York Times?” —Deborah E. Lipstadt, the Jewish Review of Books * Jewish Review of Books *“There is no denying the basic truth of Jerold Auerbach’s book, which is that the Times has had a fundamental antagonism to Zionism and to Israel from its beginning until this day. His title says it all: instead of printing all the news that is fit to print—as it says so proudly on its front page every day—the Times has often printed the news that fits its ideology.” —Jack Reimer, The Jewish AdvocateTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Patriotic Loyalty 1896-1927 Chapter 2: The Zionist Menace 1928-1939 Chapter 3: Denial and Discomfort 1933-1948 Chapter 4: Democratic Allies 1949-1957 Chapter 5: Conquest and Occupation 1960-1979 Chapter 6: Arabs and Jews 1979-1984 Chapter 7: Moral Equivalence 1984-1988 Chapter 8: Occupation Cruelty 1988-1989 Chapter 9: Illusions of Peace 1990-1996 Chapter 10: Realities of Conflict 1996-2001 Chapter 11: Blame Israel First 2002-2006 Chapter 12: Israeli Goliath 2006-2009 Chapter 13: Double Standards 2009-2014 Chapter 14: American Loyalty 2014-2015 Epilogue 2016 Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Author’s Note
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Regnery Publishing Inc Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War
Book SynopsisSince September 11, 2001, America has been at war. And that’s about all anyone can say with certainty about a conflict that has cost 7,000 American lives and almost $2 trillion. As long as the most basic strategic questions—Who is the enemy? Why are we fighting?—remain unanswered, victory is impossible. Yet this war is eminently winnable if we remove our ideological blinders, accurately name our enemy, and draw up a strategy to defeat him. So says Dr. Sebastian Gorka, one of the most experienced and sought-after authorities on counterterrorism. Our enemy is not “terror” or “violent extremism.” Our enemy is the global jihadi movement, a modern totalitarian ideology rooted in the doctrines and martial history of Islam. Taking his cue from the formerly top-secret analyses that shaped the U.S. response to the communist threat, Dr. Gorka has produced a compelling profile of the jihadi movement—its mind and motivation—and a plan to defeat it.
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Arcade Publishing The Blasphemer: The Price I Paid for Rejecting
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Charisma House Silencing of the Lambs, The
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