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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Kisht-i vīrān̲	Sardar Muhammad Chaudhry	Study of the Pakistan independence movement in Islamic perspective highlighting its historical aspects.	OL1035807W
Hamas	Khaled Hroub,Khālid Ḥarūb	1. Hamas's history. -- 2. Hamas's ideology, strategy and objectives. -- 3. Hamas, Israel and Judaism. -- 4. Hamas's resistance and military strategy. -- 5. Hamas's political and social strategy. -- …	OL11390270W
My Prison, My Home	Haleh Esfandiari	At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-ol…	OL15187573W
War, religion and empire	Andrew Phillips	"What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, …	OL15444039W
The Ayatollahs' Democracy	Hooman Majd	A New York Times best-selling author offers a personal, candid tour of the political and social landscape in Iran. Hooman Majd offers a dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, a…	OL15449803W
Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment	Ali Mirsepassi	"Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"-- "Ali M…	OL15489199W
Radical Islam in the West	Brian R. Farmer	"This book explores the challenge posed by the immersion of 15 million Muslims in Western democracies and the terrorists present within the larger body of believers. The fact that immersion is insuff…	OL15521227W
Breeding Ground	Deepak Tripathi	Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen. David Petraeus’s 2010 appointment replacing Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, this book i…	OL15538668W
Islamic activism and U.S. foreign policy	Scott W. Hibbard	For many in the West, political violence in Algeria, the Middle East, and elsewhere has come to symbolize the threat of "Islamic activism." Western governments, however, must deal with the challenge …	OL15903348W
Snow	Orhan Pamuk	Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic…	OL16064734W
Hamas and civil society in Gaza	Sara Roy	"Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on S…	OL16212151W
El islam como anarquismo místico	Abdennur Prado	Hay una paradójica convergencia de intereses entre los enemigos del islam y aquellos que quieren ser la autoridad en el islam en estandarizar el hecho musulmán, reducirlo a una sola lectura, a una so…	OL16367390W
Hizbullah's identity construction	Joseph Elie Alagha	"The important study [title] offers a revolutionary new perspective on the political phenomenon of Hizbullah whose evolution has frequently confounded scholars and politicians. Drawing on his unparal…	OL16489205W
The Muslim Question in Europe	Peter O'Brien	An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the…	OL17342477W
Christianity, Islam and Atheism	William Kilpatrick	For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered the nature of Islam. Were the terrorists motivated by the true dictates of their …	OL17625061W
The Second Arab awakening	Marwan Muasher	"This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the firs…	OL17874683W
Diyaloğa adanmış hayat	Mustafa Armağan	Islam and politics; Turkey; biography.	OL18248871W
Al- qaeda 2.0	Baldvin Donald Holbrook,Cerwyn Moore	xiv, 291 pages ; 22 cm	OL19728911W
The modern Middle East	James L. Gelvin	Extensively revised and updated in the wake of the Arab uprisings, the changes that they fostered, and the fault lines that they exposed, the fourth edition of The modern Middle East : a history expl…	OL19733629W
Temptations of power	Shadi Hamid	"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the id…	OL19975767W