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Music of Absence
This collection of essays studies how music of the twenty-first century resonates with sentiments of despondency and loss in the context of the multiple existential crises of the …
Gender Relations in the Qur'an
A constricting attitude towards the relationship between non-mahram (marriageable) men and women is often either politically enforced or self-imposed in Muslim societies, with …
Settled Unsettlements
Constitutional ambiguity has been an important enabler of European integration. Achim Hurrelmann argues that although this can cause problems, it often remains the best option for …
Feminist New Age
Perhaps the best-known among modernist-era magazines, the British socialist weekly The New Age (edited by A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922) is often mischaracterised as …
Islamic Apocalypticism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Since the late 1800s, apocalyptic thought in Sunni Islam has produced a wide range of societal attitudes about modernity. For some, apocalyptic thought encouraged an optimistic …
Continental Philosophy of Luxury
John Armitage shows how the ideas and theories of continental philosophers Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Gadamer and Adorno, play an important role in the understanding …
Sovereignty in Iran
This book is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary collaborative project examining sovereignties as a plural concept through the case of Iran. In so doing it challenges …
Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature
How has the advent of digital technology impacted social and institutional trust? And how can imaginative literature help us to answer this question? Impelled by this dual inquiry, …
Christians in Middle Eastern History
The dazzling array of languages and religions in the Middle East, from Late Antiquity to the present, has long made the region a source of fascination. But the specific features of …
Anthropofugal Fictions
This book traces a radical politics of species across the work of four significant Anglophone authors of the late twentieth century: Brigid Brophy, Alice Walker, J.M. Coetzee and …
Lessons from Scottish Schools
This book highlights the role of knowledge in school education. It shows that while the Scottish education system used to be among the strongest in Europe, its students' attainment …
Birth of British Islam
British multiculturalism is increasingly under attack by politicians across the spectrum, accused of fostering 'parallel communities' unwilling to embrace 'British values'. This …