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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Syria at Bay: Secularism, Islamism, and Pax
Book SynopsisImmediately after the US-led invasion of Iraq, which was opposed by the Syrian government of Bashar al-Asad, there were real fears that Damascus would be next in line for 'regime change'. This perception was reinforced by Washington's rhetoric and its claims that the post-invasion Iraqi insurgency is being assisted by the Syrian intelligence service. The assassination of the Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, compounded this pressure, with many observers pointing the finger at Damascus. The repercussions of his murder were anything but beneficial: Syria was compelled to withdrew its troops from Lebanon, where they had been stationed for nearly three decades. On the domestic front, Bashar is caught between hardliners and an increasingly impatient opposition. But will international pressure precipitate long overdue political reforms, or might it rebound, stifling the albeit hesitant relaxation of internal controls? Wieland argues that the West must not ignore Syria's robust tradition of secularism, and cautions that US attempts to undermine the current regime may, paradoxically, embolden the Islamists and help the regime to maintain its authoritarian grip on power.Trade Review'An excellent book.' -Joshua Landis,Syriaconnect.comTable of Contents1. Wrested from Slumber2. Bashar and Breaches in the Leadership3. The Pillars of Regime Legitimacy4. The Negative Balance5. Che not Usama: Syrian Society and Western Ideals6. Excursus: Secularism in Syria7. Is Baathism Bankrupt?8. Opposition, Islam, and the Regime9. Syria the Rogue State?10. Contradictory US Policy11. Political Options for the European Union12. Conclusion
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Islam in Inter-war Europe
Book SynopsisIn the enormous literature on the Muslim world, one of the few gaps in our knowledge is the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, an imbalance this book aims to address. The Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-1939 was not one of isolated islands of belief and practice. Rather, there was far more interaction between Muslim communities than had hitherto been imagined. For example, there was much correspondence and exchange of ideas between the Ahmadi-Lahori missions of Berlin and Woking, near London, and Albanian religious leaders. Other topics discussed in this book include the earlier than imagined emergence of notions of a distinctly 'European' Islam, the fraught interplay of politics and Islam, especially the development by some governments of Muslim 'agendas', the richness and importance of debates within Europe's Muslim community, the attempts by the Nazis to foment 'jihad' and the modus operandi of trans-national networks.Table of ContentsIntroduction; i: Muslim networks in christian lands; Making Transnational Connections: Muslim networks in early Twentieth-century Britain - Humayun Ansari; Between National and Religious Solidarities: the Tatars in Germany and Poland in the Inter-War Period - Sebastian Cwiklinski; The first Muslim Missions on a European Scale: Ahmadi-Lahori Networks in the Inter-War Period - Eric Germain; ii: towards the building of a 'european islam' behind the Veil; The Reform of Islam in Inter-War Albania or the Search for a 'Modern and 'European' Islam - Nathalie Clayer; Shakib Arslan's Imagining of Europe: The Colonizer, the Inquisitor, the Islamic, the Virtuous, and the Friend - Raja Adal; European Neo-Sufi Movements in the Inter-war Period - Marc Sedgwick; iii: from State control to foreign Policy; Islam in the Service of Social Control: Arab Seamen in Britain - Richard Lawless; The Reform of Shari'a Courts and Islamic Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1918-1941 - Fikret Karcic; Euro-Islam by 'jihad Made in Germany - Wolfgang Schwanitz; iV: Minorities between acculturation and identity claim; Farewell to the Ottoman Legacy? Islamic Reformism and Revivalism in Inter-war Bosnia-Herzegovina - Xavier Bougarel; The Muslim Minority in Macedonia and its Educational Institutions during the Inter-War Period - Muhammed Aruci; The Episode of the Turkish Spelling Mistakes in Greek Thrace, 1929- Yannis Bonos
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Whatever Happened to the Islamists?: Salafis,
Book SynopsisWidespread confusion over the use of the terms Islamism or Political Islam often obscures the fact that these are not new phenomena and can be traced back more than a century. But like all utopian beliefs, such as Communism, Islamism cannot entirely resist the broader currents of political and social change that confront it today, especially globalisation. Through meticulous on the ground and theoretical research in to the trajectories of current and former Islamists, the contributors to this book seek to understand what has become of political Islam. While many scholars have focused on the drift to violence of historical Islamism, they look at the other side of the coin to describe the continuities and not the ruptures of Islamism with its own ideology.Political Islam remains relevant to a new generation of militants but the channels through which it is expressed have changed. Jihad is often conducted electronically, via membership of Islamist e-mail list-servers; Islamist activism has been personalized, domesticated even, through the consumption of Islamic soft drinks and other lifestyle choices; and, the street protests that characterized the Islamist struggle in its heyday face competition from Islamic rap stars' concerts. These are among the issues addressed in this innovative volume.Trade Review'Whatever Happened to the Islamists? will be welcomed by all who seek to understand the impact of the Arab uprising and the role of Islamists during this historic period of political transformation in the Arab world.' * John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University and author of The Future of Islam *'Amel Boubekeur and Olivier Roy present a refreshing and provocative collection of essays, including several by younger scholars and others whose writings are rarely available in English. They display the iconoclasm, unanticipated fusions, and the modernity of contemporary Islamic activism, much of which does not see conquest of state power as a central objective. Islamic activism today is manifested in all-women heavy metal bands, consumerism, corporate big business, and individualised consumer and cultural choices. This book deserves to be widely read and debated, especially by journalists, pundits, and public policy makers who may have thought they already knew what Islamism is.' * Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University *'Although recent events in the Middle East seem to answer the question posed by this volume's title, news headlines obscure a tectonic shift in Islamism that has occurred over the last couple of decades. Whatever Happened to the Islamists? represents one of the most exciting and innovative analyses of contemporary dislocations in the ideological project of political Islam to be published in recent years. It points the way forward for an entire field of study.' * Peter Mandaville, George Mason University and author of Global Political Islam *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Ismailis in the Colonial Era: Modernity,
Book SynopsisFrom the early nineteenth century onwards the Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed historical legend, into a small but highly organised temporal and religious movement with global political and economic influence. Much of this remarkable change in fortune can be traced to the hitherto little known diplomatic interaction between the British Empire, and later the British Commonwealth, and the Nizari Ismailis, from 1839 to 1969.Marc van Grondelle's book, based on painstaking archival research, examines the processes and interactions which led to the modernisation and successful co-optation by the British government of this comparatively small branch of Shi'a Islam. The author poses several key questions regarding the wider developing relationship between movements in contemporary Islam and 'The West'. In these increasingly polarised times, his discussion of the effective co-optation of a Muslim group to the mutual benefit of both the former and British foreign and colonial policy is timely and suggestive. He investigates the processes and actions that shaped the Ismails' relationship with London, and the social and political conditions that shaped this realignment.Trade Review'In the course of an earlier research project Marc van Grondelle stumbled upon a variety of archival sources concerning the relationship between the British Government and the Agha Khans,the leaders of the Ismaili movement. Perhaps these archives are not complete; perhaps parts of them are still secret. Nevertheless they are of great importance to Islamic scholarship-if only because it is not to be excluded that similar archives with similar material about other Islamic movements exist, in London, Washington and elsewhere. If so, such material has to be exploited as soon as possible. A... Readers of this book will get a surprisingly frank view of the inner workings of the former British imperial bureaucracy, and, even more important, they will be rewarded with a number of unexpected insights into how to conduct diplomacy when relations with potentially disruptive religious movements are at stake. Van Grondelle has made an important contribution to Islamography.' * Johannes J.G.Jansen, Houtsma Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Utrecht *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global
Book SynopsisSince September 11 the term Islamophobia has entered common parlance across the globe. Widely used but diversely and inconsistently defined and deployed, Islamophobia remains hotly disputed and frequently disavowed both as word and concept. To its supporters it names a defining feature of our times and is an important tool to highlight injustices faced by and specific to Muslims, but its effectiveness is weakened by lack of agreed meaning and of clarity in relation to such terms as racism and orientalism. To its detractors Islamophobia is either a fundamentally flawed category or, worse, a communitarian fig leaf behind which 'backward' social practices and totalitarian political ambitions are covered up. The backdrop to these debates and more generally to the mobilizations and contestations, to which they give expression, is a succession of 'moral panics' centred on the figure of the Muslim. Adopting a global perspective this collection is conceptually framed in terms of four arenas which provide the four distinct contexts for the problematization of Muslim identity, and the ways in which Islamophobia may be deployed. Drawing on diverse fields of disciplinary and geographical expertise twenty six contributors address the question of Islamophobia in a series of interventions which range from large and sustained arguments to illustrations of particular themes across these contexts: 'Muslimistan' (broadly the OIC member countries); states in which Muslims either form a minority or hold a socio-economically subaltern position but in which the Muslim minority cannot be easily dismissed as recent arrivals (such as India, Russia and China as well as Thailand); lands in which Muslims are represented as newly arrived immigrants (Western plutocracies), and the regions in which the Muslim presence is minimal or virtual and the problematization of Muslim identity is vicarious. Rejecting both uncritical transhistorical uses of the term Islamophobia and no less uncritical dismissals of the term the collection navigates a course in betwixt and between these two extremes pioneering a path to a series of investigations of Islamophobia that are predicated in the articulation of Muslim agency as its necessary ground.Table of ContentsS. Sayyid Thinking Through Islamophobia; S. Sayyid Out of the Devil's Dictionary; Jonathan Riley-Smith Islamophobia and the Crusades; AbdoolKarim Vakil Is the Islam in Islamophobia the Same as the Islam in Anti-Islam: Or, When is it Islamophobia Time?; Katherine Butler Brown The Problem With Parables; Chris Allen Islamophobia: from K.I.S.S. to R.I.P.; Yakoub Islam The Voyage In: Second Life Islamophobia; Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood The Racialization of Muslims; Muhammad G. Khan 'No Innocents'; David Tyrer 'Flooding the embankments': Race, biopolitics and sovereignty; Adi Kuntsman, Jin Haritaworn and Jennifer Petzen Sexualising the 'War on Terror'; Yahya Birt Governing Muslims after 9/11; Cemalettin Haimi Neoconservative narrative as globalizing Islamophobia; Samia Bano Asking the Law Questions: Agency and Muslim Women; Annelies Moors Fear of Small Numbers? Debating face-veiling in the Netherlands; Madina Tlostanova A Short History of Russian Islamophobia; Lin Yi Culturalism, Education and Islamophobia in China; Yasin Aktay Islamophobia in Turkey; Mohammad Siddique Seddon Reclaiming The Turk's Head; Rodhanthi Tzanelli Islamophobia and Hellenophilia: Greek Myths of Post-Colonial Europe; Duncan McCargo Troubled by Muslims: Thailand's Declining Tolerance?; Nadia Fadil 'Breaking the Taboo of Multiculturalism': The Belgian Left and Islam; Katy Pal Sian 'Don't Freak, I'm a Sikh!'; Peter Millward Islamophobia: A new racism in football?; Ruvani Ranasinha Fundamental Fictions: Gender, Power and Islam in BrAsian Diasporic Formations; Dibyesh Anand Generating Islamophobia in India; AbdoolKarim Vakil Who's Afraid of Islamophobia?
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Oneworld Publications On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in
Book SynopsisFunny, challenging, controversial, passionate and unforgiving, this is an unprecedented personal account of a Muslim's life in the modern world. As an Islamic scholar, outspoken social activist and well-known commentator, Farid Esack is in a unique position to tackle the quandaries and challenges facing Muslims today. Whether it be cultivating a meaningful relationship with Allah or striving for gender equality and religious freedom, Esack combines personal insight with incisive analysis. Providing a devout yet practical guide for those seeking to re-engage with their faith in the modern world, this groundbreaking work will help believers and non-believers alike to appreciate the eternal relevance of the Qur’an and its teachings.Trade Review"This book will help overcome the stereotype that Islam is incompatible with notions of religious and gender freedom. Recommended for general readers and all student levels." * Choice *
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Oneworld Publications Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism
Book SynopsisIn 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called "Unveiling and Veiling", an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Islamic, directly challenging the teachings of wiser" male scholars. Considered by many an attack on Islam, it rocked the Muslim world and was banned by many clerics, although it quickly went into a second edition and was translated into several languages. In this latest addition to Makers of the Muslim World series, Miriam Cooke offers an intimate portrait of the life and work of this pioneering champion of Islamic feminism.Table of ContentsIllustrations Maps Preface Acknowledgements PART I 1 Early Arab Feminisms 2 The Twilight of the Ottomans 3 Islamic Lessons 4 Religious Interlocutors 5 The Book 6 “The Girl” Writes Back 7 What Went Wrong? PART II 8 Marriage 9 The Afterlife of a Writer Conclusion Glossary Works Cited Index
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Edinburgh University Press Jewish-American Writing Since 1945
Book SynopsisJewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry and drama, the author offers a readable guide to the achievements of a key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature. Key Features * A student guide to major writers in post-war American literature * A chapter on each of the 5 main writers * Covers theoretical aspects -- the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction -- in an easily accessible way * Offers background material to situate the work of the writersTrade ReviewA broad-ranging student guide which offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to major writers and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. A broad-ranging student guide which offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to major writers and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds.
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Rivers Oram Press Dialogues in the Diaspora: Essays and
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish
Book SynopsisThis text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus.Trade Review"Laqueur draws on dozens of published and unpublished memoirs...the detail is always vivid and well chosen, sometimes very moving... no one could read this book without increased admiration for 'generation exodus'." -Matthew Reisz, Jewish ChronicleTable of ContentsPreface /xi Introduction: Growing Up between Weimar and Hitler / 1 Escape / 29 Resistance / 64 Israel: Immigration Jeckepotz / 94 United States: Golden Country behind Paper Walls / 129 World Revolution, or the Dream That Failed / 161 Britain: Forever Refugees? / 189 The Great Dispersal: Hotel Bolivia and Hotel Shanghai / 215 Returning to Germany / 241 Portrait of a Generation / 268 Glossary / 307 Bibliographical Essay / 311 Index / 329 Illustrations follow pages 116 and 232
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Peter Halban Publishers Ltd Herzl
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became the greatest figure of modern Jewish history and is today seen as the father of the State of Israel.
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Muslim Academic Trust British Muslim Identity: Past, Problems,
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D Giles Ltd Jews in America
Book Synopsis'Jews in America' documents the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in the New World, from the time of Columbus to the 1920s, when the Jewish community in the United States was four million strong and an essential part of American society and culture. Drawing on a mix of contemporary books, manuscripts, globes, maps and engravings from the world-renowned collections of the New York Public Library, Jews in America is a vivid document of everyday Jewish-American life, worship, law, and commerce. It tells the fascinating story of the first Jewish immigrants' arrival in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 (later New York City), Jewish interaction with the four colonial powers in the Western Hemisphere (Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and England), and on the ideas and beliefs that they influenced. The final chapter looks at the evolving cultural role of Jews in late 19th and early 20th century New York, especially the rise of the Yiddish theatre.Trade Review"Reproductions exhibit excellent quality; many are in color on high-grade paper. The volume is well-referenced with endnotes. It concludes with a brief essay on the Jewish division of the New York Public Library. Summing Up: Highly recommended" R Hartsock, "Choice" "A handsome book" "For the library it is a testament to its Jewish division which contains one of the foremost collections of Judaica and Hebraica in the world" Michael Hirsch, "The Portolan" "A beautifully crafted catalogue of choice Jewish treasures" Esther Nussbaum, "Jewish Book World" "From the very beginning it is full of fresh insights" "This is a fascinating story, superbly told" David Herman, "Jewish Renaissance" "Gives a flavour of an important strand in the history of the United States" CassoneTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction I Discovery II New Christians, Conversos, and the Inquisition: The Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil, Suriname, and the Caribbean III Arriving in New Amsterdam - and then, New York IV Jewish Indians, Puritans and Quakers, the Christian Millennium, and the Hope of Israel V Communities and Constitutions in Colonial North America VI The Long Nineteenth Century of the Jews in America The Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library Further Reading Illustrations, Credits, and Acknowledgments Index
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Five Leaves Publications Jews and Sex
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GINGKO The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval
Book SynopsisIn the early 1250s Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his youngerbrothers Qubilai and Hulegu to consolidate his grip on power. Hulegu was welcomed into Iran while his older brother, Qubilai, continued to erode the power of the Song emperors of southern China. In 1276 he finally forced their submission and peacefully occupied their capital, Hangzhou. The city enjoyed a revival as the cultural capital of a united China and was soon filled with traders, adventurers, artists, entrepreneurs, and artisans from throughout the great Mongol Empire includinga prosperous, influential and seemingly welcome community of Persians. In 1281, one of their number, Al al-Din, built thePhoenix Mosque in the heart of the city where it still stands today. This study of the mosque and the Ju-jing Yuan cemetery,today as a lake-side public park, casts light on an important and transformative period in Chinese history, and perhaps themost important period in Chinese Islamic history. The book is published in the Persian Studies Series of the British Instituteof Persian Studies.
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Five Leaves Publications Are You Still Circumcised?: East End Memories
Book SynopsisA collection of autobiographical stories about growing up in the Jewish East End in the 1930s, bringing to life an immigrant generation''s abrasive encounter with the anglicising power of schooling. The collection includes accounts of his Jewish Communist family''s conflicts with authority, and combating fascists at the Battle of Cable Street. This edition includes a new introduction by Harold''s son, well-known poet and children''s writer Michael Rosen.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Critical Muslim 51
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Critical Muslim 52
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Gibb Memorial Trust The Portrait of Abu lQasim alBaghdadi alTamimi
Book SynopsisNew translation and commentary on the 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan. It is introduced by its author as a microcosm of Baghdad. This work, written in prose but containing numerous poems, is widely hailed among scholars as a narrative unique in the history of Arabic literature, but The Portrait also reflects a much larger tradition of banquet texts, from Trimalchio''s Dinner Party and Plato''s Symposium to the works of Rabelais. It also paints a portrait of a party-crasher who is at once a holy man and a rogue, a figure familiar among scholars of the ancient Cynic tradition or other portrayals of wise fools, tricksters, and saints from literatures around the Mediterranean and beyond. While some early scholars of The Portrait dismissed it as disgusting and obscene, this work, with its wealth of material-cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and literary treasures, is much more than just a ''dirty book''.Following an introduction, which offers new insights into the relationship of the work to both its Greek predecessors and to its European descendants, the volume presents a new, improved edition of the Arabic text, together with a richly annotated translation, that aims at being both scholarly and readable, to some extent reflecting the often racy style of the Arabic. This should make it not only useful to specialists and students of medieval Arabic literature, but also accessible to a much wider general readership of those interested in comparative literature or ''world literature''. There are extensive indexes of names, places, subjects, and rhymes.
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de Gruyter Jewish Law
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De Gruyter Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black
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de Gruyter Karl Kraus 1933
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Walter de Gruyter Verantwortung in Der Evangelischen Ethik
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de Gruyter The Migrant and her Trafficker
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de Gruyter Oldenbourg Queer Jewish Groups in Europe 19721990s
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de Gruyter Oldenbourg From Zagreb to Palestine
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de Gruyter The Destruction of Jerusalem in NineteenthCentury
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de Gruyter Akzeptanz Formation und Transformation
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De Gruyter Bits of Bliss
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de Gruyter Oldenbourg Januar 1933 Das jüdische Leipzig eine Rekonstruktion
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Walter de Gruyter Tod Und Trauer Analog Digital
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Kohlhammer Islam: Einheit Und Vielfalt Einer Weltreligion
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Kohlhammer Der Koran: Kommentar Und Konkordanz Von Rudi
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Bohlau Verlag Schönberg verstehen: »Überwältigende Vielheit
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Evangelische Verlagsansta Ester
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Evangelische Verlagsansta The Call to Islam Dawa Islamiyya
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Evangelische Verlagsansta Stuttgarter Islamstudie
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Bohlau Verlag Koln The Central Synagogue of Sofia: Westernization,
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Deutscher Kunstverlag Materialisierte Heiligkeit
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Verlag Herder Der Jude Jesus - Eine Heimholung
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