History
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The completion of the European world conquest Nationalism in the last decades of the century was a growing force in the main Muslim centres, and after 1905 was to dominate ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The lessons Sa’dî taught and the wisdom he preached made no pretence to originality. Indeed, wisdom is seldom original. What Sa’dî aimed to do was to put the old truths ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The two sides in this schism have subsequently been labelled, conventionally, ‘Snnuîs’ and ‘Shî‘îs’. Each side adopted a historical position in justification of its present attitude. The Shî‘îs came to ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Nabil Mouline [Mouline, Nabil]

7 RAISING THE VEIL ON THE CONDITIONS OF ACCESS TO THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT FROM SELF-MADE MEN TO HEIRS: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE ULAMA The predication of Muhammad ibn Abd ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Jonathan Lyons [Lyons, Jonathan]

I will surely cast him into the Fire. Would that you knew what the Fire is like! It leaves nothing, it spares no one; it burns the skins of men. ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Mustafa Akyol

CHAPTER SEVEN ISLAMIC CHRISTOLOGY “Islam recognized the particular function of Christ, which … differed from that of other prophets who usually brought a law or reformed a previous one, by ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Stephen Schwartz

FIVE CENTURIES PASSED BEFORE the appearance of a figure even more threatening to Sufism than Ibn Taymiyyah. By then the world of Islam was obviously weakened by Western advances. An ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Christopher J. Walker

After land-sweats, and many a storme by Sea, This hillock aged Sherleys rest must be. He well had view’d Armes, men, and fashions strange In divers lands. Desire so makes ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

ISLAMIC SOCIETY: THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE It is essential to distinguish between the ideal society described in the Quran and Hadth and historical Islamic society. ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Marranci, Gabriele;

CHAPTER 6 Beyond the Stereotype: Challenges in Understanding Muslim Identities IDENTITY AND ANTHROPOLOGY Identity has fascinated intellectuals, such as philosophers (e.g. Locke 1690/1959 and Hume 1740/1975), psychologists (e.g. James 1890) ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-11 | Author:Bernard Ellis Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill & Buntzie Ellis Churchill

Honor Killing and Mutilation At a time when European opinion and comment were predominantly hostile to Islam, the great Hungarian Jewish orientalist Ignaz Goldziher devoted much time and effort to ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |zho | 2008-09-29 | Author:ibn Munqidh, Usama [Usama, ibn Munqidh,]

§ Another Example of their Medicine Another example of their wondrous medicine was related to us by William de Bures,246 lord of Tiberias and a man with some standing among ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Lewis, Bernard

The term commonly used by the ancient Arabs for the offspring of mixed unions was hajin, a word which, like the English “mongrel” and “half-breed,” was used both of animals ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Samar [Samar]

Volume 2 SAMAR HABIB, Editor Foreword by Parvez Sharma PRAEGER An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC VOLUME I Foreword by Parvez Sharma ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Islam and Homosexuality xvii Samar ...
( Category: LGBT March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Lesley Hazleton [Hazleton, Lesley]

Talha and Zubayr were both dead by noon. Talha had taken command of the cavalry and fought valiantly. He might even have prevailed if he had not been shot in ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )