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New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Very minor general wear to jacket. Ink name and address on front paste-down endpaper. 2015 Hard Co… Mehr…

New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Very minor general wear to jacket. Ink name and address on front paste-down endpaper. 2015 Hard Cover. x, 271 pp. "Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings—not least the duty to wage holy war—are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim Reformation—a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity—is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness—not least by Muslim women—to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end its appeasement of the Islamists. “Islam is not a religion of peace,” she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world's number one problem., Harper, 2015, 3.5, The Mongol Empire was the largest continuous land empire known to history, its violent creation the major political event of the thirteenth century world. Yet little is known the history of Christendom's most formidable eastern neighbour.In this classic history, David Morgan explains how the vast Mongolian Empire was organized and governed, examining the religious and political character of the steppe nomadic society. He assesses the astonishing military career of Chingiz (Genghis) Khan, considers the nature of Mongol imperial government, and the effects of Mongol campaigns on the countries and peoples they conquered in China, Russia, Persia and Europe. His narrative extends to the collapse of the Empire and the formation of a People's Republic as a Russian satellite state., Blackwell Publishers, 1986, 2.5, New York: Warner Books - An AOL Time Warner Company, 2002. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. 268 Pages Indexed. First printing February 2002. Beautiful As New book with no marks or stamps. Attractive map endpapers. Interior text pages are flawless. Book and Jacket have been protected by Damco vinyl cover. Was Herodotus's account of the Amazons fact or fiction? Archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball, in Warrior Women, an account of her digs at burial sites of Eurasian nomads, finds it an embellishment of the former. But, she posits, women's place in that world was generally more exalted than previously thought. Nearly one-quarter of the women buried in some late Iron Age sites were either warriors or priestesses. Even the remainder, hearth women, were important players in the tribes' surprisingly egalitarian societies. Further, southern Kazakhstan's famous gold man was in fact, a gold woman. Davis-Kimball also finds solid evidence of high status women in graves as far east as China and as far west as Ireland. This book is, thankfully, free of lazy sensationalism. But it is frustratingly organized, with little regard to either chronology or geography. Further, Davis-Kimball never places her finds in any sort of context, be it popular or scholarly., Warner Books - An AOL Time Warner Company, 2002, 5<

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