Islam
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Love in a Headscarf

The first thing I decided to do was something that nice girls didn’t do. I decided to climb a mountain, a very big mountain. Kilimanjaro to be exact, the highest ...
( Category: Women August 28,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: General August 19,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-11 | Author:Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel [Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel]

23. THE BELIEVERS A Meccan sura which stresses that the believers are the ones who will succeed, whereas the disbelievers will be punished for their arrogance and derision. Several proofs ...
( Category: Quran August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Ruthven, Malise [Ruthven, Malise]

The roots of Islamic law 1. Quran As the direct and unmediated Word of God, the Quran is the primary source of law in Islam. In the broadest sense, the ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Naipaul, V.S. [Naipaul, V.S.]

And then, beyond an iron-barred door, we were in the quiet of the manuscript room, and among old things of great beauty. So that, abruptly, after the disorder of the ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laude, Patrick

How, then, is one to recognize the divine “face” in the traditions of the Other; how does one recognize this “lost camel”—the wisdom contained within the religions of the Other? ...
( Category: Comparative Religion August 19,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Islam August 1,2014 )
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. ...
( Category: Islam July 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-26 | Author:Susan Crimp

CHAPTER SEVEN I AM AN EX-MUSLIM AND PROUD OF IT! “I remember being taught to hate (not directly so, of course) by instilling fear against “those evil Jews,” and my ...
( Category: Islam July 27,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Islam July 20,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq [Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq]

Progressive Reform of Shari‘a Theoretical justification for progressive reform of shari‘a has existed for a long time. In tenth-century Andalusia, Ibn Hazm advocated continual ijtihad by returning to the fundamental ...
( Category: Islam July 18,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )
epub | | 2011-05-23 | Author:Freidoune Sahebjam, Richard Seaver

Zahra had never accepted the fact of male domination in the village. She never hesitated to speak her mind, and the men of the village were in awe of her ...
( Category: Law June 5,2014 )