Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
10 best books like Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Mahmood Mamdani): The Federalist Papers, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Black Skin, White Masks, Orientalism, The Concept of the Political, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad, The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics, Liliane
| Author | Alexander Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0451528816 |
Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written", The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European...
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802150845 |
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.
“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
The Concept of the Political
| Author | Carl Schmitt |
| ISBN | 0226738868 |
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state. This edition of the 1932 work includes the translator's introduction...
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
| Author | Tariq Ramadan |
| ISBN | 0195183568 |
In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam, one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume, Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important...
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
| Author | Lesley Hazleton |
| ISBN | 1594487286 |
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade.
Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known....
The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
| Author | Arun Kundnani |
| ISBN | 1781681597 |
Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semi-automatic rifles at him from a few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded the building on that October morning, the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation that had infiltrated the imam’s Detroit mosque....
Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics
Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged...
| Author | Ntozake Shange |
| ISBN | 0312135599 |
Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes what she knows of herself to the world through her bold and colorful artwork....
The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
| Author | Ai-jen Poo |
| ISBN | 1620970384 |
By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today’s 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders. The process of building...
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
| Author | Nima Naghibi |
| ISBN | 0816647607 |
Western women’s involvement in Persia dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when female adventurers and missionaries first encountered their veiled Muslim “sisters.” Twentieth-century Western and state-sponsored Iranian feminists continued to use the image of the veiled woman as...
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
| Author | Deepa Kumar |
| ISBN | 1608462110 |
In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a “war on terror,” ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia. However, 9/11 did not create the image of the "Muslim enemy." This book examines the historic relationship between anti-Muslim racism and the...
The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
| Author | Max Weber |
| ISBN | 0872206653 |
Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to authority; and the nature and status of political...
| Author | Tahmima Anam |
| ISBN | 0061478768 |
From prizewinning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam comes her deeply moving second novel about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh, seen through the intimate lens of a family.
Pankaj Mishra praised A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam's debut novel, as a "startlingly accomplished and gripping...
Letters to a Young Muslim
| Author | Omar Saif Ghobash |
| ISBN | 1250119847 |
"In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet too...
| Author | Charles Tilly |
| ISBN | 0521701538 |
Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical...
| Author | Osamah M. Al Muslim |
كُنت متابعه لقصص الروائي اسامة في حسابِه في التويتر مِن قبل ان يتم نشر الرواية؛ الحماس والخوف والمجهول كان يتملكني في كل تغريدة كان يكتُبها، لم اُبقي بشري...
