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Abu Hanifah by Mohammed Akram Nadwi
epub |eng | | Author:Mohammed Akram Nadwi

AHL AL-RAY AND AHL AL-ḤADĪTH In this section I take up the question of why Abū Ḥanīfah was the object of criticism from a group of scholars – or, rather, ...
( Category: Law March 24,2020 )
The Globalization Reader by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-12-04 | Author:Unknown

Conclusion There is no doubt that developing ideas and making demands on how to improve the world are part of the core business of NGOs and social movements. They can ...
( Category: Architecture March 24,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda by Gerges Fawaz A
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Gerges, Fawaz A. [Gerges, Fawaz A.]

The solution lies in the Afghan people being left free. This means an end to occupation, leaving Afghanistan, and giving an opportunity to the government that was there before occupation, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 24,2020 )
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Expansions to the Holy Mosque in Mecca A postcard of Medina (date unknown) shows that the city had grown in comparison with the map on page 12. The sa’y or ...
( Category: Cities March 23,2020 )
Moshe Dayan by Mordechai Bar-On
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Mordechai Bar-On

10 The Six Day War ON MAY 15, 1967, the nineteenth anniversary of Israel’s independence, ominous news interrupted preparations for a festive parade in Jerusalem. In violation of the agreements ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe
mobi |eng | 2006-07-24 | Author:Ilan Pappe

THE MARGINALIZATION OF ‘ARABISM’ IN ISRAELI SOCIETY In the makeshift hut camps for newly arrived immigrants, in the slums of the big towns, and in the newly isolated settlements near ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era by Julia Phillips Cohen
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-03 | Author:Julia Phillips Cohen

Conclusion It was precisely this interpretation of proper patriotic conduct that other members of the Jewish community of Salonica and beyond came to contest in the debates surrounding the sultan’s ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba
epub |eng | | Author:George Saliba

Islamic Responses to Ptolemaic Astronomy: Creating an Alternative Astronomy We have already seen several levels of responses to what was perceived as factual mistakes in the Ptolemaic tradition. Whether it ...
( Category: History of Technology March 22,2020 )
The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices by William Shepherd
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William Shepherd

There were some 400 Thebans from the opposition66 party, for the people of Thebes were divided against each other over the question of forming an alliance with the Persians. (Library ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )
Israel: The First Hundred Years by Karsh Efraim
epub |eng | | Author:Karsh, Efraim

State-Religion Relations in Israel: The Subtle Issue Underlying the Rabin Assassination EFRAIM BEN-ZADOK In 1974, Yitzhak Rabin became the new Prime Minister of the Labour-led government in Israel. Rabin, who ...
( Category: Asian March 22,2020 )
The Forgotten Palestinians by Ilan Pappe
epub |eng | | Author:Ilan Pappe

THE ISLAMIC MOMENT In both areas of historical Palestine the uprising gave impetus to the political Islamic forces on the ground. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Islamic movement in Israel ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 22,2020 )
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile by Amelia Ann Blandford
epub |eng | 2017-10-26 | Author:Amelia Ann Blandford [Blandford, Amelia Ann]

CHAPTER XIV. KOROSKO TO ABOU SIMBEL. IT so happened that we arrived at Korosko on the eve of El-‘Id el-Kebîr, or the anniversary of the Sacrifice of Abraham; when, according ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )
Etrog by David Z. Moster
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Z. Moster

There are adherents of the tree-focused approach that translate the word hadar as “etrog” instead of “beauty .” The earliest commentators to do so interpreted hadar midrashically; that is, they ...
( Category: History March 22,2020 )
Coming of Age in the Middle East by Trevor Mostyn
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Trevor Mostyn

8 A noisy night in Beirut I had first known Beirut in its plump days before the civil war, and as a poor student was repelled by its brash wealth. ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2020 )
MANSA MUSA I by Jean-Louis Roy
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Jean-Louis Roy

Tunis and Kairouan It was a caravan severely marked by several very trying weeks, physically and psychologically, by the anxiety of the men and the desolation of the earth that ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )

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