Islam
epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Anissa Helou

Wheat and Meat “Porridge” H’RISSEH LEBANON H’risseh, harissa, or h’riss in the Arab world, keskek in Turkey, bokoboko in Zanzibar, or haleem in Pakistan, India, and Iran—these are all different ...
( Category: Regional & International May 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Freely [Freely, John]

CHAPTER 11 Islamic Technology Much of the Islamic legacy in science is preserved in manuscript collections around the world, particularly in countries that were and continue to be centres of ...
( Category: World May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-05 | Author:Davis, Natalie Zemon [Davis, Natalie Zemon]

It is He who sent down upon thee the Book, wherein are verses clear that are the Essence of the Book, and others ambiguous. As for those in whose hearts ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hossein Kamaly

SIX Sufism Returns, and with a Vengeance In June 1989 a hitherto unpublished poem by Ayatollah Khomeini was released to the press just a few days after he had died, ...
( Category: Islam May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Peter Adamson

Box 12 The influence of the stars Aristotle’s idea that God directly causes celestial motion, and only indirectly affects our lower world, was taken on in a surprising way in ...
( Category: Philosophy May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-13 | Author:Timur Kuran

The Onset of Reverse Discrimination By no means were western negotiators interested only in the predictability of their investments. As their bargaining power rose, they also pursued outright privileges. Already ...
( Category: Islam May 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Rumi

LOSE ALL DESIRE But for her, your lover wills that you lose all desire Love, when at its brightest, seeks to quench the fire Dissolution in that love, they say, ...
( Category: Poetry May 13,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-05 | Author:Malise Ruthven

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 May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-03 | Author:Faisal Devji, Zaheer Kazmi

Battling Islamic and liberal fundamentalism Another prominent member of the postra community, Ahmad Baso, underscores the role Islamic post-traditionalism plays as a contrapuntal discourse to the multiple ways in which ...
( Category: Islam May 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zargar, Cyrus Ali; [Zargar, Cyrus Ali]

Chapter Seven Distancing Oneself from the Worldly: Renunciation (Zuhd) According to al-Muḥāsibī and al-Sarrāj It is best not to draw forced comparisons between Sufism and Aristotelian virtue ethics, but renunciation ...
( Category: Religious Studies May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-30 | Author:Dallal, Ahmad S.;

Hadith in India The name of the seventeenth-century scholar ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642) is closely associated with the introduction of hadith studies to India. Prior to ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Indian ...
( Category: Europe April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden & Jean Sasson

Chapter 17 A Far, Far Country NAJWA BIN LADEN In Khartoum we waited in uneasy suspense for four long months, left to our lonesome selves to wonder what was going ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 25,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Bat Ye'Or

On a historical level, European Jewry—the target of a millenary theological persecution—is the remnant of genocide. This is not the position of Muslim immigrants, but it is similar to the ...
( Category: World April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Daisy Khan

BREAKING THE BREAD … YOUR BREAD IS SEEKING YOU Listen, put trust in God, don’t let your hands and feet tremble with fear: your daily bread is more in love ...
( Category: Memoirs April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Steve Howard [Howard, Steve]

5 Communicating Islamic Reform Small Media, Big Ideas On the east bank of the Blue Nile is the village of Hilaliya, not far from the region in which Ustadh Mahmoud ...
( Category: Africa April 22,2018 )