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JIHADISM IN PAKISTAN
₨ 1,495Pakistan is host to the largest concentration of jihadist groups in the world. Since the 1980s, the Pakistani state has been accused of sponsoring local jihadist groups and sending Pakistani volunteers to support them.
This book is based on almost 114 interviews, conducted mainly in Urdu and Pashto, from within Al-Qaeda and affiliated jihadist groups. It examines the relationship between the Pakistani security agencies and Al-Qaeda, and how they both became entangled and used by the local jihadists they were themselves trying to exploit. The interviews paint a picture of the shifting strategies and priorities of the different jihadi groups in the early 21st century, covering their ideological objectives, their agreements and disagreements over tactics, as well as pressure from rival militant groups and internal factionalism.
The book is the most in-depth study of jihadism in Pakistan, and Antonio Giustozzi highlights the strategies global jihadists deployed after 9/11 and how Al-Qaeda tried to manage the largest jihadist group in Pakistan, the Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The book also covers other key issues in South Asian security, such as the impact of Islamic State on Al Qaeda’s power after 2014, why Al-Qaeda continue to back the TTP, and what is happening with the groups focused on taking jihad to Kashmir and India.
ISBN: 9780755647385
AUTHOR: ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI
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NEW SPACES OF EXPLORATIONGEOGRAPHIES OF DISCOVERY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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ISBN: 9781848850170
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HAFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIESPOETRY, PERFORMANCE AND PATRONAGE IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY IRAN
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ISBN: 9781848851443
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AMERICA & ISLAMSOUNDBITES, SUICIDE BOMBS AND THE ROAD TO DONALD TRUMP
₨ 7,269Donald Trump’s first term as the 45th President of the United States of America has shocked the world. His attitudes towards Islam became a key point of contention on the campaign trail, and in power Trump has continued his war of divisive words and deeds. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak scrutinizes America’s relationship with Islam since its foundation. Casting Donald Trump as a symptom of decades of misunderstanding and demonization of the Islamic world, as well as a cause of future tensions, Pintak shows how and why America’s relationship with the world’s largest religion has been so fractious, damaging and self-defeating.
Featuring unique interviews with victims and perpetrators of Trump’s policies, as well as analysis of the media’s role in inflaming debate, America & Islam seeks to provide a complete guide to the twin challenges of terrorism and the polarizing rhetoric that fuels it, and sketches out a future based on co-operation and the reassertion of democratic values.
ISBN: 9781784539092
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OIL SHOCK THE 1973 CRISIS AND ITS ECONOMIC LEGACY
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ISBN: 9781784535568
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CONFRONTING AN EMPIRE CONSTRUCT A NATION
₨ 15,272This groundbreaking book re-examines the rise of nationalism in Palestinian politics, using a wide range of sources. Matthews argues that the advocacy of nationalist identity was inextricably interlinked with resistance to British imperialism. He probes early self-perceptions of Palestinian nationalism and its changing relationship with Islamic and pan-Arab identities.
ISBN: 1845111737
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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
₨ 3,236In the fog of the 1967 war and its aftermath, Israel’s politicians and generals took a series of fateful decisions that led to an unplanned, bitter and seemingly endless occupation. Gershom Gorenberg takes us behind the scenes of history to glimpse those decisions being made. He reveals for the first time the real motivations, influences and strategies of key players such as Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir and Vigal Allon. He shows how secular, well-informed Labour politicians allowed policy to be determined by a potent combination of religious radicalism and military fearfulness. The result was the growth of settlements in the occupied territories even though, as Gorenberg reveals, key decision-makers at the time knew that this was illegal.
The spoils of the 1967 war were in fact a mixed blessing for Israel. Today the settlements constitute a major obstacle to the two-state solution for which most Israelis yearn. As the resistance to the 2005 Gaza disengagement illustrated, the passions, ambitions and political alliances that gave rise to Israel’s pursuit of ‘The Whole Land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, remain potent forces in Israeli politics today. Gorenberg’s book captures these moods, personalities and ideologies as no other writing on the subject has done, and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the occupation, but the motives and missteps of the occupiers.
ISBN: 1845114305
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BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND STATE
₨ 7,714This book examines the most important writings of a tenth-century Islamic theologian and jurist who were one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Numan’s works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi’i literature, a development necessitated by the Fatimid’s transition from revolutionary movement to statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority as the Shf’i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate.
Already famous in the Fatimid era, al-Nut man left a legacy which includes a formalised school of law an early record of the Fatimid achievement in his historical and biographical works, new interpretations of Islamic doctrine explored in his legal and esoteric writings and the formulation of a ceremonial language in his work on court protocol. Between Revolution and State explores all of these literary genres in depth and presents a sophisticated and readable analysis of one of the seminal figures of Islamic and Islamic history.
ISBN: 1850438823
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THE TRIUMPH OF MILITARY ZIONISM
₨ 14,656Why did Israel shift from a state based on pioneering egalitarianism and “making the desert bloom” to one which is chiefly known for its military prowess? Colin Shindler examines Israel’s shift to the right at the hands of Menachem Begin, the supposed “disciple” of Vladimir Jabotinsky. He demonstrates through previously unpublished sources how Israel drifted away from Jabotin sky’s ideas towards a maxima list Zionism promoted by Begin.
ISBN: 1845110307
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FROM EMPIRE TO ORIENT
₨ 7,558This book offers an alternative perspective on Britain’s late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-Imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David Urquhart passionate belief in the ideal of municipal government in Turkey, W.S. Blunt’s enthusiasm for the Egyptian reformers of the Azhar, E.G. Browne’s zeal for the Persian revolution and Marmaduke Pickthall’s advocacy of the cause of the Young Turks into their political and historical context and into the context of their writings.
ISBN: 185043767X
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THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF CENTRAL ASIA
₨ 10,047This timely book focuses on the newly independent Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. It examines the recent economic and political developments in these states with reference to the lingering legacy of Tsarist and Soviet rule, the resurgence of an Islamic political identity, the persistence of ethnic allegiances and rivalries, and the nascent democratic aspirations of their peoples. A distinguishing feature of the book is its emphasis on the long-standing religious, ethnic and cultural ties between the peoples of Central Asia and those of the four Southwest Asian states of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. Viewing the new alliances, rivalries and potential conflicts among these states, the authors provide an informed and incisive assessment of the geopolitics of a region with a population of over 300 million people where future developments will carry heavy implications for the West.
ISBN: 185043736X
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PERSIAN LYRIC POETRY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA, 800-1500
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ISBN: 9781788318242
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CHURCHILL AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD
₨ 8,077Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels Churchill’s nuanced understanding of the edges of the British Empire. Warren Dockter analyses the future Prime Minister’s experiences of the East, including his work as Colonial Under-Secretary in the early 1900s, his relations with the Ottomans and conduct during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-16, his arguments with David Lloyd-George over Turkey, and his pragmatic support of Syria and Saudi Arabia during World War II. Challenging the popular depiction of Churchill as an ignorant imperialist when it came to the Middle East, Dockter suggests that his policy making was often more informed and relatively progressive when compared to the Orientalist prejudices of many of his contemporaries.
ISBN: 9781788319249
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TERRORIST MOVEMENTS AND THE RECRUITMENT OF ARAB FOREIGN FIGHTERS
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ISBN: 9781788314985
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POLITICAL MANIPULATION AND SEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
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ISBN: 9781784538859
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