Islam
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Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
William R Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam and Muslims, with special reference to...RM95.00 -
Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th – 21st Century
A lavishly illustrated, authoritative presentation of the history of Islamic luxury textiles For centuries, luxury textiles were symbols of...RM382.50 -
The A to Z of Islam
This abridged paperback version of The Historical Dictionary of Islam includes short biographies of theologians, philosophers, founders of Sunni and...RM85.00 -
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration The Age of...RM120.00 -
The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Vol. I
Set in seventeenth-century Istanbul, The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Vol I is a beautifully drawn meditation on love, home, faith and loss It...RM120.00 -
The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque, 1786–1957
Tamil Muslims – once known as Chulias – prospered as traders of pelikat cloth, pepper and local products in the Straits of Malacca In the...RM135.00 -
The Crucible of Islam
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the...RM100.00 -
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years Ranging from Arabia to India...RM154.00 -
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East At the heart of the Middle East,...RM180.00 -
The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Holy Men, Princes and Commoners
Many people believe that it is not permitted to depict human figures in Islamic art, but the Quran does not expressly forbid it, and the human figure...RM285.00 -
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of...RM95.00 -
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
The Islamic Enlightenment: a contradiction in terms The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt But, from...RM87.00 -
The Islamic World: A History in Objects
This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day Told in six chapters,...RM150.00 -
The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World
Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before...RM142.90 -
The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past
Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions...RM138.00 -
The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism
This book explores the ethnography of emerging proletarian social consciousness and resistance By the 1970s Malay peasants on the east coast of...RM60.00 -
The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty
The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, a court ensemble that has...RM210.00 -
The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern,...RM45.00