Books published by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

A cautionary investigation of the global futures business - political risk, investment funding, think tanks - and how its predictions distort our understanding of the world we live in

Critical Muslim take on Turkey

Looks at educational reform through the Islamic perspective

*A concise introduction to Fanon's thought that contextualises it within the world of philosophy.

Challenges our current notions on global politics.

This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of 'race' became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century.

Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the authorities in Kabul for decades. This book explains why.

Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Local initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa's petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book.

Goldsmith examines how sectarian insecurity obstructs the emergence of genuine political pluralism in the Middle East, taking Syria's Alawites under the Asad dynasty as an example.

Leading experts analyse the critical role played by Salafism across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Are weak states more conspicuous in troubled regions like the Middle East or does their continued existence suggest that they have cards to play with their bigger and more bellicose neighbours?

Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals?

A probing enquiry into Sino-Tibetan relations, both at the level of high politics and everyday interactions.

This revelatory investigation of Bin Laden's tape archive suggests that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa'ida's early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence.

The product of three years research in Saudi Arabia on what Wahhabism means to those whose lives are governed by its formidably strict tenets.

A look at freethinkers via the Muslim perspective

Collection of writings about Syria written from the Islamic perspective

Shi'ism in South East Asia is the first book in any language to engage critically with the traditions of 'Alid piety. It provides an engaging work that moves away from the polemical sectarian discourses on shi'ism in southeast Asia.

The book investigates the rise, fall and possible re-emergence of a powerful Shia militia. The author draws on personal experience of occupied Baghdad, having been embedded with US troops in the city, to offer new evidence on an important chapter in modern Iraqi history.