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Kim Jong-il's Leadership of North Korea
Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in …
Medievalism in Finland and Russia
Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern Europe. This volume explores political …
Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations
This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond. Throughout the book, the …
Muslims in Ireland
Since 9/11, the interest in Muslims in Europe has increased significantly. There has been much public debate and academic research focused on Muslims living in larger Western …
Muslims against the Muslim League
The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of …
Sublime in Antiquity
Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, …
Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74
Revealing Portugal’s counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique’s liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Muslim responses to …
Christian-Muslim Relations during the Crusades
The popular view of the Crusades is that of two zealous armies ranged against each other in a state of practically permanent warfare, lacking mutual respect, understanding, or …
Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects
Originally published in 1939. After the death of Muhammad his community was ruled by three caliphs who kept their capital as Medina, the City of the Prophet. Under the rule of the …
Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal
In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian …
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
This book discusses the "e;long fifteenth century"e; in Iberian history, between the 1391 pogroms and the forced conversions of Aragonese Muslims in 1526, a period …