In Search of the Lost Orient: An Interview 0231179340, 9780231542036, 2017003802, 9780231179348

Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political Islam. But he is not only a scholar—he is also a tra

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In this book-length interview, Olivier Roy, a leading expert on political Islam, tells the story of how his many adventu

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The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world’s most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimag

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In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago’s Museum of Co

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Toshihiko Izutsu and the Philosophy of Word: In Search of the Spiritual Orient

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A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answ

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What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of t

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What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of t

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One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume master

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Jay and Perry are fraternal twins separated at birth. Their biological mother, Gloria, kept Jay to raise and Perry was g

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