Middle East
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-03 | Author:Patrick Kinross [Kinross, Patrick]

As Churchill summed up the position: ‘The Greeks had gained a strategic and tactical success; they had gained possession of the railway for the further advance; but they had not ...
( Category: Middle East March 12,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-24 | Author:Norman Finkelstein

Deadlock In the wake of the June war, attention shifted from the battlefield back to the diplomatic arena. The main venue of deliberations was the United Nations and the main ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Efraim Karsh

7. THE LIMITS TO POWER No regional dispute has attracted a longer and more sustained international intervention than the Arab-Israeli conflict, and few conflicts have been more impervious to outside ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

The Unchanging Qur'an Changes The Qur'an: Muhammad's Book? The Qur'an is Muhammad's foremost legacy and the primary source for knowledge of Islamic doctrine and (to a lesser degree) history. According ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
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 | 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 | 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 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Robert S. Wistrich [Wistrich, Robert S.]

During the twenty years between the emergence of political Zionism and the Balfour Declaration in November 1917, the European socialist movement for the first time had to confront the existence ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Thomas E. Ricks [Ricks, Thomas E.]

THE BATTLE OF TARMIYAH As the new American outposts proliferated, they did appear to draw some of al Qaeda’s firepower away from civilians. The more remote stations were especially enticing. ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Michael Grant [Grant, Michael]

iv. The Psalms The hundred and fifty Psalms, the contents of the Psalter, are of incalculable importance to our knowledge of the people of Yahweh, but their composers and editors ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 11,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Robert Fisk [Fisk, Robert]

For the violence done to Lebanon shall sweep over you, the havoc done to its beasts shall break your own spirit, because of bloodshed and violence done to the land, ...
( Category: Middle East March 10,2018 )