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The Veil and the Male Elite
A study by the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi of the sources used to restrict women's role in Islam, first published in French as Le Harem politique. Mernissi asks…
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On the Sociology of Islam
A collection of lectures by the Iranian sociologist and activist ʿAlī Sharīʿatī, translated from Persian by Hamid Algar and published in English in 1979, the year of the…
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Arthaśāstra
A comprehensive treatise on statecraft, economics and law, traditionally ascribed to Kauṭilya (also called Cāṇakya), minister to the Maurya emperor Chandragupta, though many scholars now see it as…
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Hind Swaraj
A short book written in Gujarati in November 1909, aboard a ship returning from London to South Africa, and translated by Gandhi himself as Indian Home Rule in…
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Annihilation of Caste
An undelivered speech, written in 1936 as the presidential address for the annual conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, a Hindu reform group in Lahore. When the organisers objected…
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The Defender of the Peace
A long treatise of political theory finished in 1324, during the conflict between Pope John XXII and Louis of Bavaria. Marsilius, a physician and former rector of the…
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Monarchy (De Monarchia)
A Latin treatise in three books in which Dante argues for a universal temporal monarchy, or empire, independent of the papacy. Book I argues that the human race…
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Laws
Plato's longest work and probably his last, a dialogue in twelve books said to have been left unrevised at his death. An unnamed Athenian, a Cretan and a…
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The Jungle Protocol
The second volume of The Architect's Protocol asks what happens when truth loses its authority and power begins to write the law. It examines the doctrine that might…
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Tomorrow Became a Country
An independent nonfiction systems study of the United Arab Emirates, arguing that the country was deliberately engineered rather than simply grew, and aiming to show this through evidence.…
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