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Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the Qur’an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, it is regarded by the faithful as the unmediated word of Allah. It is …
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‘Compelling, laudably unsentimental and deeply significant.’ — Frances Stonar Saunders, GuardianIn 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals to be deported in prep …
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It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-I …
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The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man’s harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it i …
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Two brilliant scholars at the height of their powers conduct a profound investigation of the history of anti-Western stereotypes – and find their origins in the West itself.In this book, Ian Buruma an …
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In his history of Englandof 1757m the novelist Tobias Smollett records the case of a suicide pact between a London bookbinder named Smith and his wife who, having fallen into bankruptcy, killed their …
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In this “lucid primer of Russian thought” (The Times Literary Supplement), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions, “what …
The exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been …
‘Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapúscinski and Joseph Roth’Amos Elon, author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide.A Holocaust survivor’s tortured son, …
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