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By Anoushirvan Ehteshami and Steven Wright

Through articles by eminent academics and government officials, this book looks at issues surrounding reform in the Middle East oil monarchies and examines the drivers, progress and challenges for future change in this vitally strategic area of the world.

Edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri

This timely collection of papers by leading academics and prominent government officials sheds new light on the foreign policy of Iran under President Khatami and into the period of President Ahmadinejad.

By Imam Jalal-Al-Din Al-Suyuti, translated by Professor Hamid Algar, Professor Michael Schub and Mr Ayman Abdel Haleem

Islamic Studies, Qur'an Studies: Al-Itqān is perhaps the most outstanding work of its kind in the field of Qur’anic Sciences. Exhaustive in its sources and its subjects, thoughtfully and lucidly written, the work is also well arranged. Readers will be taken by the depth, breadth, scope and mastery of the author while noting how much Muslim scholars have devoted to the study of the Qur’an and how varied and diverse were the fields in which those studies were made.

In this book, Mabroka al-Werfalli examines the extent and effects of political alienation in Libya. The author highlights links between legitimacy and alienation and underlines certain types of political behaviour, in an attempt to draw attention to various causes of indifference and violent behaviour associated with political alienation in Libya.

By Ibn 'Abd Rabbih, translated by Issa J. Boullata

One of the classics of Arabic literature, Al-'Iqd Al-Farid is a mine of information about various elements of Arabic culture and letters in the first three centuries of Islam. Volume I of this translation (Garnet Publishing, 2006) contained four of its twenty-five ‘books’. Volume II contained two more. This is the third volume.