KBA13 Academy Archive and Library
Books
Books from the personal library, catalogued with LCC, LCSH and BISAC classification.
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AMAZONBookAcehnology: Foundations, Metaphysics, and the Social Sciences in the Study of Aceh
What if Aceh were studied not merely as a region but as a distinct intellectual world? The Acehnology Series offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of Aceh-its …
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AMAZONBookBloody Borders: An Acehnese Reply to the Clash of Civilizations, 1993–2026
What happens when a theory of global conflict is examined not from Washington, London, or Harvard—but from Aceh, a region that has endured colonial intervention, armed c…
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AMAZONBookThe Making and Unmaking of World Order: Crisis, Innovation, and the Global Future
The world order that shaped the twentieth century is coming apart. What will replace it?The Making and Unmaking of World Order offers a sweeping examination of how inter…
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AMAZONBookTHE BEIJING VARIABLE: US-China Competition and the Next World Order: A View from Southeast Asia
Two superpowers. One collision course. And a question no one can answer with certainty: what does Beijing really want?When President Trump and Xi Jinping meet in 2026, t…
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AMAZONBookTHE MYSTICAL INTELLECT: Ibn ʿArabī, Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, and the Architecture of Islamic Epistemology
The Mystical Intellect: Ibn ʿArabī, Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, and the Architecture of Islamic Epistemology Discover the Intellectual Architecture Behind One of Islam's Gr…
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AMAZONBookCOMPLETE INDEPENDENCE: The Essential Life Skills Every International Student Needs to Thrive Abroad
Complete IndependenceThe Essential Life Skills Every International Student Needs to Thrive AbroadLeaving home is easy.Building a life of your own is the real challenge.E…
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AMAZONBookNUSANTARANOLOGY: The Imagination of Nationhood and the Science of the Archipelago
NUSANTARANOLOGYThe Imagination of Nationhood and the Science of the ArchipelagoWhy has the archipelago always been studied, yet so rarely allowed to explain itself?For d…
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AMAZONBookThe Veranda of Mecca: Faith, Peace, and the Remaking of Aceh after the Tsunami
The Veranda of Mecca offers a rare and deeply grounded portrait of Aceh after two defining ruptures: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2005 Helsinki peace agreement …
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AMAZONBookPolitical Islam and the Indonesian Reformasi: Faith, Corruption, and the Unfulfilled Dream of Democracy in the World's Largest Muslim Nation
For millions of Indonesians, the fall of Suharto in 1998 promised the birth of a new democratic era. Yet more than a quarter of a century later, many of the same questio…
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AMAZONBookFROM GNOSIOLOGY TO WAḤDAT AL-SHUHŪD: The Anthropology of Mystical Knowing in Islam
What if the deepest knowledge is not something you learn—but Someone you meet? Some books explain the mystical path. This one is written from within it. In From Gnosio…
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AMAZONBookOf Salt and Tamarind: Islam, Identity, and the Malay World of Southeast Asia
What does it mean to belong to the Malay world in the twenty-first century? From the shores of Aceh to the cultural landscapes of Melaka and the historical memory of Pa…
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AMAZONBookThe Future of the World: Humanity in the Planetary Civilization
What does it mean to be human when the future is being engineered for us? Written from the northern tip of Sumatra rather than from Silicon Valley, The Future of the Wo…
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AMAZONBookThe Philosophy of Ultimate Consciousness: Toward a Unified Thought from the Empirical to the Metaphysical
What is the highest potential of human consciousness? Is reality limited only to what we perceive through the senses, or does human understanding move through deeper lay…
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AMAZONBookGuidance of the Intelligent Toward the Path of the Friends of God: Hidāyat al-Adhkiyāʾ ilā Ṭarīq al-Awliyāʾ - A Textual Study and Intellectual Commentary (Sufism and Spiritualism)
A journey into one of the most influential yet often overlooked texts of the Islamic spiritual tradition.For centuries, Hidāyat al-Adhkiyā' ilā Ṭarīq al-Awliyā' by Shayk…
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AMAZONBookWaḥdat al-Wujūd: A Treatise on Self-Reformation
A profound Islamic reflection on the self, knowledge, reason, reality, and the journey toward God. Waḥdat al-Wujūd: A Treatise on Self-Reformation is a contemplative wo…
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AMAZONBookTHE DIGITAL CIVILIZATION: Techno-Religion, the Abandoned Society, and the Crisis of Human Authentic Selfhood in the Planetary Era
What happens when technology is no longer merely a tool — but becomes the invisible architecture of human civilization?In the age of artificial intelligence, algorithms,…
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AMAZONBookTHE MIDDLE EAST FAULT LINES: Iran, Gaza, the Gulf, and the Rewriting of the Regional Order
The Middle East is not simply facing another crisis. It is experiencing the slow collapse of an old regional order. From Iran’s confrontation with Israel and the United…
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AMAZONBookTHE RECOGNITION OF NATIONS: Thymos, Dignity, and the End of History Reconsidered
Why do nations continue to struggle for recognition even after the supposed triumph of modernity, democracy, and globalization? At the end of the twentieth century, man…
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AMAZONBookThe Strategy of Shadows: Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Milton, and the Dark Logic of Power Across Civilizations
Power is never only what we see. The deepest forces shaping history often move silently beneath the surface.The Strategy of Shadows: Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Milton, and th…
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AMAZONBookTHE PLANETARY MIND: Al Gore's Global Mind, Kishore Mahbubani's One World, and the Architecture of the Coming Civilization
What happens when humanity begins to think beyond nations, borders, and old civilizational divisions?The Planetary Mind: Al Gore’s Global Mind, Kishore Mahbubani’s One W…
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AMAZONBookTHE SHADOW STATE: How the KGB, Mossad, and the World's Most Powerful Intelligence Networks Shape Global Power
Who truly shapes the modern world—the leaders we see or the invisible networks operating behind the architecture of power?In the twenty-first century, global power is no…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin and Ibn Sīnā: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and Imaginal World
What if Ibn Sīnā was not only a philosopher of reason but also a thinker of imagination, experience, and inner transformation? For centuries, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) has of…
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AMAZONBookTHE FUTURE OF THE WORLD: Geopolitics, Civilizational Competition, and the Coming World Order
What will the future of the world look like in an age of geopolitical rivalry, artificial intelligence, civilizational competition, and shifting global power?The Future …
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AMAZONBookThe Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Reclaiming the Divine Breath in Science, Consciousness, and Human Becoming
What if knowledge is not something we produce but something we receive? In The Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Reclaiming the Divine Breath in Science, Consciousness, and…
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AMAZONBookIsaiah Berlin and the Defense of the Human World: Freedom, Tragedy, and the Moral Foundations of Pluralism
What if the greatest threat to humanity comes not from evil, but from those who believe they are saving the world? In a century scarred by revolutions, purges, and the …