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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian …
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many observers stereotype Islam and its …
The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama's "just war," the destination for an additional thirty thousand US troops in an effort to shore up …
The World According to Tomdispatch
Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays …
Global Connections: Volume 2, Since 1500
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is …
Engaging the Muslim World
With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today - from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the …
Book of Storms
A boy discovers a book all about extreme weather lying in his driveway. He begins to browse the section on rainstorms. Suddenly clouds roll in and rain pours out. But some …
Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East
In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the …
Women Leading Education across the Continents
Women Leading Education across the Continents is the first collection of research about and stories of women in basic and higher education leadership from every region of the …
Shi'ism and Social Protest
Shi’i Muslims, who make up eleven percent of the population of Islamic nations, have produced more than their share of political activism – from the Iranian revolution in 1978-79 …
Rub iy t of Omar Khayyam
A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian …