Islam
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:F. E. Peters [F. E. Peters]

The Monastic Rule One who had considerable experience of monasticism in most of its Middle Eastern varieties was Basil (d. 379), the wealthy nobleman who had himself become a monk ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 21,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1999-10-14 | Author:John L. Esposito

The Third Mode: Scripturalist Concerns and Modernist Reforms A third mode identifiable in Chinese Islam began at the end of the Qing dynasty, a period of increased interaction between China ...
( Category: Islam April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Benedikt Koehler

Muqairiq and Muhammad Muhammad laid the foundation of Islam’s charitable sector with Judaic practices before his eyes.[6] Muqairiq, a Jewish recruit to Muhammad’s army who was fatally wounded at the ...
( Category: Economics April 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-18 | Author:Febe Armanios & Boğaç Ergene

“No Bacon Here!”: Magazines and Blogs “Cuisine” can be defined as a style of cooking and eating but also as the reliance on a creative toolbox of techniques, specific ingredients, ...
( Category: Islam April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Patrick Sookhdeo

RESOLUTION ON THE BY-LAWS FOR The International Islamic Council for Daw'a and Relief Introduction The religion of Islam). is the seal of the Divine Messages, and Muhammad (Allah’s peace and ...
( Category: Islam April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Goody

Values The East in its various forms continues to be seen as very different from the West in its ‘despotic’, anti-democratic governments, the absence of freedom and of the Christian ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 17,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2017-04-01 | Author:Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi [Al-Yaqoubi, Shaykh Muhammad]

( Category: Islam April 16,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Henri Pirenne

2. The Carolingian Mayors of the Palace In 688, then, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia imposed his tutelage on the kingdom. But he did not remain beside the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 16,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-10 | Author:Bill Warner

I564 Hamza fought like a lion. He was big and skilled and killed many Meccans. As he approached one, he cried, “Come here, you son of a clitoris cutter!” (The ...
( Category: Islam April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Meddeb, Abdelwahab; Kuntz, Jane;

CHAPTER 6 The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature The notion of nature does not exist in the Bible, any more than it does in the Koran, where it is assimilated ...
( Category: Middle East April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:Majid Fakhry

However, for al-Ghazali humans occupy a pre-eminent position upon the ladder of creation; for God created them in His image and likeness and made them the epitome of the whole ...
( Category: Islam April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Hussam S. Timani

Takfīr in the Ash‘arite Thought The Ash‘arite theological movement takes its name from its founder Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ash‘arī (d. 935) “whose works marked a turning point in the history of ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Cook, Michael

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: Islam April 14,2018 )
epub | | | Author:Mark Sedgwick

THE NATIONAL COURTS Egypt had three parallel judicial systems. The oldest of these was the Sharia Court system, which had existed from time immemorial, applying Islamic law and staffed by ...
( Category: Islam April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Rodgers, Russ;

6 The Surge After the destruction of the Banu Qurayzah in January 627, Muhammad allowed his fighters to take a well-deserved break. It would seem that during this interlude he ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )