epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley

11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Lewis, Bernard [Lewis, Bernard]

CHAPTER V SATAN AND THE SOVIETS America’s new role—and the Middle East’s perception of it—was vividly illustrated by an incident in Pakistan in 1979. On November 20, a band of ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Tarek Fatah [Fatah, Tarek]

Although references to Jews in Hadith literature can be seen as hostile to Jews as a people, a study of the Quran reveals a much more positive image. In fact, ...

mobi | | | Author:Lesley Hazleton

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

II. THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRY The development of industry kept pace with the expansion of commerce; wider markets stimulated production, and mounting production nourished trade. Transport progressed least. Most medieval ...

mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Hazleton, Lesley [Hazleton, Lesley]

Fourteen The Battle of Badr was fought on March 17, 624, and if it was not quite what Muhammad had sought, it would turn out to be exactly what he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:McHugo, John [McHugo, John]

a Jew who appears to love you Yet secretly harbours betrayal25 This bigotry does not prevent Abu Nuwas and the Jew establishing mutual respect and even affection. When asked his ...

mobi |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Aslan, Reza [Aslan, Reza]

7. In the Footsteps of Martyrs FROM SHI‘ISM TO KHOMEINISM EARLY IN THE morning on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, in the sixty-first year of the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Tom Holland

The Great War Around Easter, AD 600, the plague returned to Galilee. So virulently did the outbreak rage that it had soon spread beyond the Golan Heights and into the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tarek Mohamed Abdelhamid

In this fatwa, what are we to make of the phrase “political cause”? What about religious causes? And are Israelis or Thai Buddhists “innocent”? Is it fine to use terrorism ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Karen Armstrong

4 ISLAM TRIUMPHANT IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500-1700) The discovery and exploitation of gunpowder led to the development of a military technology that gave rulers more power over their subjects than before. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Spencer, Robert [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 ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-23 | Author:Michael Cook

3. HINDUISM In turning to the Hindu case let us begin where we just ended, with law. As a phenomenon, Hindu law resembles Islamic law in some basic ways, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amin Maalouf

9 The Rush for the Nile ÝMy uncle ShÐrkÙh turned to me and said, “YÙsuf, pack your things, we’re going.” When I heard this order, I felt as if my ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-11-02 | Author:Spencer Robert

Muhammad was more specific when Asma, daughter of one of his leading companions (and first successor) Abu Bakr, came to see him while "wearing thin clothes." "O Asma," exclaimed the ...