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Abdelwahab Meddeb; trans. Pierre Joris & Ann Reid.
Islam and its Discontents.

Published London: William Heinemann, 2003 (previously issued in French 2002).
ISBN 0434011401;
ISBN-13: 9780434011407.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Biddles Ltd., Guildford & King’s Lynn.
Size: 142×222×24mm.
Page count: 241pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed, a little wear on its edges and corners; the book is printed on low-grade paper, so the pages are yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.


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[Publisher’s price £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 384g.

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Seeks to analyse Islam’s relationship with the modern world by exploring its history — no particular medieval emphasis.

Contents: Islam — inconsolable in its destitution; Genealogy of fundamentalism; Fundamentalism against the west; Western exclusion of Islam; Afterword — war chronicles.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no


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