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Everyday Jihad: Bernard Rougier; Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Rougier plunges us into the heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which became a site for militant Sunni Islamists in the early 1990s. Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own interpretations of sacred texts and jihad, took root in this Palestinian milieu, and explains how radical religious allegiances overcome traditional nationalist sentiment in communities marked by poverty and despair.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Her Day in Court: Maya Shatzmiller; This book is a study of the historical record of the property rights and equity of Muslim women. Based on Islamic court documents of fifteenth-century Granada--documents that show a high degree of women's involvement--the book examines women's legal entitlements to acquire property, as well as the social and economic significance of these rights to Granada's female population and, by extension, to women in other Islamic societies.; Hardcover 2007

Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia: Thomas F. Glick; Glick has drawn on original documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to present in this volume a thorough and lively study of Valencian irrigation and society. In Part One Glick describes medieval Valencian irrigation in the epoch of its fullest documentation (1238-4500). Part Two is concerned generally with the spread of Islamic irrigation technology and, more specifically, with cultural diffusion and the persistence of cultural forms during the transition in Spain from Islamic to Christian rule.; Hardcover 1970

Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Edited by R. Michael Feener; Edited by Mark E. Cammack; Although often neglected in the literature on Islamic law, contemporary Indonesia is an especially rich source of insight into the Islamic legal tradition. The essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional Islamic law in modern Indonesia, together offering a substantive introduction to important developments in both the theory and practice of law in the world's most populous Muslim society.; Hardcover 2007

Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: Edited by David Little; Edited by Donald K. Swearer; Susan Lloyd McGarry, Editorial Assistance from; Because the situation in Iraq exhibits standard symptoms of religious nationalism, it seems appropriate to relate it to other cases where the impulses of religion and nationalism have collided in a lethal way. This volume provides a comparative consideration of attempts to manage and resolve nationalist conflicts in Bosnia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan--with two prominent thinkers examining each case--and examines how lessons from those situations might inform similar efforts in Iraq.; Paperback 2007

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan: Edited by Robert D. Crews; Edited by Amin Tarzi; The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan explores the paradox at the center of a challenging phenomenon: how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future? Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics.; Hardcover 2008