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The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party in Britain that aspires to win elections. Though both major...

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Nonviolence

The history of humanity is dominated by violence - it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries.Drawing on the values of ancient religions and moral leaders such as Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus of Nazareth, Mahatma Gandhi was the first...

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Chaucer's Italy

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In face, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio (among others),...

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Churchill's Britain

More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter Clark's Churchill's Britain does something quite different. It takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to...

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In the Long Run We're All Dead

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics couldn't even be studied at university and was the preserve of polymathic figures whose radical curiosity drew them to an evolving discipline...

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Trust in Public Life

In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not an invention of the last 50 years, but a feature of modernity that we cannot solve by artificial abstract means but only through encounters...

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The Idea of Persia

In 1721 the French philosopher Montesquieu posed the question Comment peut-on être persan? in the title to his famous Persian Letters (Lettres persanes). After centuries of invasion, murder, destruction and authoritarian rule, the decay...

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Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State

The work of Charles Tripp - professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for over three decades - has shaped a distinct approach to the study of Middle East politics: an analytical sensibility that is empirically rich,...

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Mary in the Qur'an

An entire surah of the Qurʾan bears her name. She is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qurʾan indeed; her name appears more frequently than that of either Muhammad or Jesus. From the earliest times to the present day, Mary has...

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The Other Prohet

Jesus is considered one of the most important prophets in Islam. In the Qur’an he is called a sign of God, and yet his position in Islam is different from his status in Christianity. The Other Prophet is an unprecedented attempt to...

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Nasser

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd al-Nasser remains a towering figure in the Arab world. As one of the young officers who overthrew British-backed King Farouk in 1952, Nasser rose to prominence as a charismatic visionary...

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Joyce

James Joyce (1882-1941) is hailed as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Rejecting his homeland and its religion as a young man, Joyce went on to reinvent the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. His masterpiece, Ulysses...

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