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“hisham aidi”

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  • Rebel Music

    Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture

    by Hisham Aidi ...
    This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face of the West’s policies in the War on Terror. Hisham Aidi interviews musicians and activists, and reports ... Read more

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  • Salonica, City of Ghosts

    Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Great Theft

    Wrestling Islam from the Extremists

    by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl ...
    Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Muslims and terrorists are synonymous. In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the recent bombings in London, an unprecedented amount of attention has ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Under the Black Flag

    An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS

    by Sami Moubayed ...
    The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed, a Beirut-based journalist who has been analysing Syria and the region for 20 years, has ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Leisurely Islam

    Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

    by Lara Deeb, Mona Harb ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Prophets of the Hood

    Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

    by Imani Perry ...
    At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Muhammad: His Character and Conduct

    by Adil Salahi ...
    Muslims all over the world see Muhammad as God's last messenger to mankind. Through his actions, he showed the way to live a life that provides for all the needs of body, mind, and soul, and elevates man's aspirations towards a sublime ideal in a very simple, direct, and truthful manner. He built a state that was dedicated to truth and justice and to the liberation of man throughout the world. He ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Other People's Property

    A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

    by Jason Tanz ...
    Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences-think jazz, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds

    Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands

    by Raymond William Baker ...
    Series series Religion and Global Politics
    By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability, Islam has emerged as a civilizational force strong enough to challenge the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • 99 Problems

    Superstars Have Bad Days, Too

    by Ali Graham ...
    Poor Superstar. All the money and fame in the world won't prevent him from having a bad hair day. Or stepping in gum. Or not being able to fit into skinny jeans, or watching helplessly as a scoop of ice cream falls from its cone.Or so an unnamed Superstar's life is ingeniously imagined in this very funny book. Inspired by but not based on Jay Z's monster hit "99 Problems," illustrator Ali Graham ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Muslim Spain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Frank Peters ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Encountering Islam

    Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca

    by Paul Auchterlonie ...
    Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the fascinating story of one ... Read more

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