The Water-Babies

Charles, Kingsley

Hurst & Company

Scriptural Politics examines how the Koran and the Bible are interpreted and acted upon by political movements in the Arab world and in Africa. It is commonly held that the Koran has more specific rules for organizing society than does the Bible: thus while Islamic activists see the Koran as a model from which they can derive concrete and all-encompassing instructions, Christians view the Bible as a source of political visions, images, symbols, and metaphors. The contributors contend that this assumption should be reassessed, given the way the Bible is being interpreted in contemporary African Christianity. They also explain how the different political traditions of Africa and the Arab world shape reactions to the Koran and the Bible. The book also offers a comparison of Islamic and Christian radicalism in the 1990s. Islamist and radical Christian groups of a charistmatic-pentecostal orientation have been on the rise in Africa and the Arab world in the 1990s, and they show remarkable similarities, not only in their principles of scriptural interpretation and opposition, but also in their explicitly demand for lay people’s unmediated access to the true meaning of the holy scriptures, thereby providing them with a crucial role and hence undermining the monopoly of religious specialists, the ulama and the pastors.

Scriptural Politics: The Bible and the Koran as Political Models in the Middle East and Afica

Religion & Spirituality

Eurasian Crossroads

"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Xinjiang stands at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean, and Russia and has, since the Bronze Age, played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political development of Asia and the world. Xinjiang's population comprises Kazakhs, Kirghiz, and Uighurs, all Turkic Muslim peoples, as well as Han Chinese, and competing Chinese and Turkic nationalist visions boiled over into insurrection in 2009. This book provides the essential historical and cultural background to this fascinating part of the world.

James A. Millward

Dubbed an 'agent of British imperialism' by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889- 1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional story is recounted in this new biography. He studied in St Petersburg, participated in the 1905 Revolution and spent the rest of his life working for various branches of British secret intelligence. Plunging into the Great Game, he participated in daring operations against the Bolsheviks and tracked down a turbulent German agent, Wilhelm Wassmuss, who was spreading anti-British propaganda in Persia. Teague-Jones was also held responsible for the execution of 'the 26 Commissars' after the fall of the Baku Commune in 1918. This became one of the Soviet Union's most powerful cults of martyrology, inspiring a poem by Yesenin, a Brodsky painting, a 1933 feature film and an immense monument. Shortly after, Teague-Jones changed his name to Ronald Sinclair and adopted a secret persona for the next five decades, part of which he worked undercover in the United States as an expert on Indian, Soviet and Middle-Eastern affairs, possibly in collaboration with the OSS, the new American secret service. In his swan song in espionage he kept a gimlet eye on the Soviet delegation to the UN in New York. For these reasons, and many others besides, Reginald Teague-Jones is the most important British spy you have never heard of.

Most Secret Agent Of Empire

Taline Ter Minassian

High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Elliott, Christopher L.

Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril

History

Aarts, Paul

Middle East

Taliban Narratives Afghanistan Conflict

Johnson, Thomas

Asia

Malan to De Klerk: The Evolving Role of the South African Head of Government (The Office of Head of Government)

Politics & Social Sciences

Schrire, Robert (Ed.)

Politics & Government

In this path-breaking and entertaining study, the author concentrates on the problem of what to wear rather than describing what is worn. She demonstrates how different individuals and groups have used clothes to assert power, challenge authority, define or conceal identity, and instigate or prevent social change at various levels of Indian society from the village to the nation. Three main issues are addressed: questions of national identity as seen through the clothing controversies of the Indian elite in the late colonial period; questions of local identity as experienced by women in rural Gujarat; and the recent development of urban fashion trends which reappropriate regional styles. Emma Tarlo demonstrates the complexity of interaction between these different levels of sartorial change. Thus she combines ethnographic analysis of Gandhi's loincloth and village embroidery with a rich depiction of the importance of clothing in India. The work is amply illustrated with over 100 photographs, advertisements and cartoons.

Clothing Matters Dress and Identity In Ind

Arts & Photography

Emma Tarlo

Decorative Arts & Design

Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent: Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic

H Poulton

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