Religiösa & teokratiska ideologier

Byggnader har en fasad och en insida, det har även människor och politiska partier Efter 37 år i journalistiken tar Lars Adaktusson i februari 2013 steget över till andra sidan och blir medlem i Kristdemokraterna. Han vill engagera sig politiskt o...

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När en konservativ salafistisk kultur spred sig i Sverige i början av 2010-talet valde de flesta medier och journalister att inte rapportera om utvecklingen. Varför? Rädslan att gå rasistiska ärenden eller ytterligare peka ut en redan utsatt grupp...

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"En god skildring av Saudiarabien, Egypten och Turkiet av idag ... Det är ett både kunnigt och flerdimensionellt arbete - om än ett bitvis skrämmande sådant." Värmlands Folkblad "Journalisten Tina Thunander undersöker i De bokstavst...

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Boken behandlar den islamiska statens (IS) religiösa och ideologiska rötter, dess snabba uppgång och den debatt och självkritik IS framgångar fött i det arabiska och muslimska Mellanöstern. Vidare knyts denna diskussion ihop med Sveriges och Europ...

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WINNER OF PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS 2017 Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. After its infamous v...

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När Kalifatets återkomst nu kommer ut i ny upplaga har det gått sex år sedan boken publicerades för första gången, och även om en hel del har hänt i regionen, lever vi fortfarande med konsekvenserna av den Islamiska Staten (IS) och den militanta i...

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Stora delar av Mellanöstern befinner sig idag i djup kris. Att fullt ut greppa komplexiteten i det som sker i den till synes oöverskådliga arena som Mellanöstern utgör, kan säkert för många te sig som en i det närmaste omöjlig uppgift. Men samtidi...

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I sin nya bok argumenterar Ayaan Hirsi Ali för att en reformation kan få slut på terrorismen, den sekteristiska krigföringen och förtrycket av kvinnor och minoriteter som varje år kräver tusentals liv. Hon uppmanar västvärlden att inte längre söka...

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A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as "rabid nihilism," "mad black deleuzianism," and &quo...

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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021...

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The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant thr...

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This book is based on unprecedented interviews with active and former jihadists, even IS fighters. It focuses on the changing nature of jihad as a social phenomenon and how jihad changes jihadists. It argues that there are fascinating generational...

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'Gripping ... revelatory ... unrivalled' Tom Holland, New Statesman 'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from Connecticut to California: Graeme Wood's quest to understand the Islamic State is a ro...

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This book is based on unprecedented interviews with active and former jihadists, even IS fighters. It focuses on the changing nature of jihad as a social phenomenon and how jihad changes jihadists. It argues that there are fascinating generational...

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Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim ...

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The Power of Reconciliation is Archbishop Welby's most important book to date. This revolutionary book was published for the 2022 Lambeth Conference in July, when bishops from all around the world assembled in Canterbury. But its importance g...

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The Muslim Brotherhood in the West remains a mysterious entity. In The Closed Circle, Lorenzo Vidino offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the worlds most influential Islamist groups operates. He marshals unique interviews with promi...

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In this book Abdulaziz Sachedina argues for the essential compatibility of Islam and human rights. He delineates a fresh contemporary Muslim position that argues for a correspondence between Islam and secular concepts of human rights, grounded in ...

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On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny an...

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The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-mo...

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For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karave...

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As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the events of 9/11 and the advent of the 'war on terror', this narrative seemed prophetic. But, as Peter...

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Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional...

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An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books.In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the...

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The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open source int...

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'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMESHow did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an ins...

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?Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening'' GUARDIAN?Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story'' NEW YORK TIMESHow did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an i...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of the Dutch Parliament and the author of the international bestseller "Infidel", was raised as a Muslim fundamentalist in Kenya. A feminist, political analyst, writer, and fierce critic of he...

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The author of Emmas War offers a compelling account of the link between Muslim womens rights, Islamist opposition to the West, and the Global War on Terror.Wanted Women explores the experiences of two fascinating female champions from opposing sid...

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'A groundbreaking study ... a masterclass in how to do intellectual history, and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland, New Statesman 'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas w...

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