Religious & Theocratic Ideologies

The Bible observes that God made humanity for a while a little lower than the angels. If humans are that close to angels, does the difference lie i...

The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 Augu...

Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we ...

Originally published in 1926, this is the third of four volumes to discuss Christian Theology, under the guidance of the historic decisions of the ...

Although regarded as a single community of Islamists, Islamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book e...

Does political Islam have a specific vision of global politics? How has the foreign policy of Islamist forces developed in order to impose their id...

In 2011, the Maghreb occupied a prominent place in world headlines when Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, became the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring. E...

Haroro J. Ingram journeys through over a century of history, from the Islamist modernists of the late-1800s into the 21st century, in the first ful...

American exceptionalism was once a rather obscure and academic concept, but in the 2012 presidential election campaign the phrase attained unpreced...

Including contributions from leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States this book traces the rise and turn to mode...

Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the mo...

This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its d...

Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in t...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal d...

New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged...

These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy. Bringing together a wealth of wisdom and experience...

It's no coincidence that one of the most asked questions on any search engine is: Is God real?When life feels overwhelming, we want to know if ther...

Based on an invitational address to an international audience of scholars, government representatives, and peace organisations in Washington D.C., ...

How the book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supre...

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party s...

How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? Here, the authors study the interac...

Ayres examines the relationship between early Christian thought and Hellenic philosophical traditions by considering the extent to which fundamenta...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, d...

How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal--a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they propheti...

Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a c...

How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In...

The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscap...

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? In early 2011, the prominent Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by a member of h...

Global jihadism has been on policy agendas for more than two decades. Since the 9/11 attacks, both transnational jihadi entities such as Al-Qaeda a...