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  • Crossing the Red Line

    Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza

    A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist.Following Hamas’s horrific October 7 attack, Israel launched an offensive of staggering violence in Gaza, saying it targeted militants while regularly striking hospitals, schools, and homes. Critically acclaimed journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Journey into Islam

    The Crisis of Globalization

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    Globalization, the war on terror, and Islamic fundamentalism-followed closely by a rise in Islamophobia-have escalated tensions between Western nations and the Muslim world. Yet internationally renowned Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed believes that through dialogue and understanding, these cultures can coexist peacefully and respectfully. That hope and belief result in an extraordinary journey. To ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Thistle and the Drone

    How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal ... Read more

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    Crossing the Red Line

    Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza

    Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Following Hamas's horrific October 7 attack, Israel launched an offensive of staggering violence in Gaza, saying it targeted militants while regularly striking hospitals, schools, and homes. Critically acclaimed journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers extensive reporting and chilling new details about how the Biden administration enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―ignoring warnings ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Journey into Europe

    Islam, Immigration, and Identity

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    An unprecedented, richly, detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in European history and civilizationTensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity

    The Search for Saladin

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.Four men shaped the end of British rule in India: Nehru, Gandhi, Mountbatten and Jinnah. We know a great deal about the first three, but Mohammed ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Suspended Somewhere Between

    A Book of Verse

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    Series series Busboys and Poets Press
    Akbar Ahmed’s Suspended Somewhere Between is a collection of poetry from the man the BBC calls “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam.” A mosaic of Ahmed’s life, which has traversed cultural and religious barriers, this book of verse is personal with a vocal range from introspective and reflective to romantic and emotive to historical and political. The poems take the reader from the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals)

    A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

    Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society

    by Akbar Ahmed ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed’s study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Discovering Islam

    Making Sense of Muslim History and Society

    Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today. Islam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatic. Written in the tradition of Ibn Khaldun, this readable and wide-ranging book balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates the sources of its ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Resistance and Control in Pakistan

    How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms?In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dramatic story of the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism and Islam

    Predicament and Promise

    Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come. ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD