Critical Muslim, Volume 50
Halal
ISBN: PB: 9781911723240,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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The global halal industry is growing exponentially. But what is halal? Is it simply limited to halal meat, which, in a broader context, may not always be "lawful or permitted"― the literal meaning of halal? Is there more to hal...
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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 49
Southern Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781787389588,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
236 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
236 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Not to be confused with South Africa, the country, Southern Africa is a subtropical and temperate region comprising many culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse nations, including Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Zim...
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Malevolent Republic
A Short History of the New India (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723288,
ISBN: HB: 9781787380059,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...
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To Speak a Defiant Word
Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation
ISBN: HB: 9780300268065,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray.
The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction...
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Joshua 13-24
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300265408,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
440 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
440 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
The second installment of Thomas B. Dozeman's authoritative commentary on the book of Joshua.
Following the Pentateuch in the traditional canon, the book of Joshua chronicles the conquest of the Canaanite nations, the distribution of the newly acqu...
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Kennicott Bible
A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art
ISBN: HB: 9781851246007,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
November 2023
272 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 190 colour illus.
272 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 190 colour illus.
The Kennicott Bible is among the most celebrated Hebrew Bibles that survive from the Middle Ages. Originating from La Coruna in northern Spain, it features lavish carpet pages, gold leaf silhouettes and abundant marginal decorations. This extraordina...
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Jonah
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300206678,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
368 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
368 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars.
The book of Jonah, which tells the outlandish story of a disobedient prophet swallowed by a great fish, is one of the Bible's best-known narratives....
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World of the Crusades
ISBN: PB: 9780300274219,
ISBN: HB: 9780300217391,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliqua...
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
ISBN: HB: 9780300259803,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance.
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...
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