Islam
azw3, epub |eng | 2001-10-17 | Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]

VI Religion For the Muslim, religion was the core of identity, of his own and therefore of other men’s. The civilized world consisted of the House of Islam, in which ...
( Category: Middle East April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]

It is a charge often levelled at historians that their enquiries are concerned only with the possessors of wealth, power and learning; that though they may pretend to write the ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Egger, Vernon O. [Egger, Vernon O.]

The Muslim West The Muslim lands bordering the western Mediterranean enjoyed a halcyon period during the second half of the tenth century. The eleventh century, on the other hand, witnessed ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Annemarie Schimmel [Schimmel, Annemarie]

Another two generations later, Maulana Rumi combines this idea with his favorite miracle story: The philosopher who denies “the sighing palm trunk” (hannāna) Is unaware of the inner meaning of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 1,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Kristina Nelson [Nelson, Kristina]

Repetition/Sectioning of the Text The basic structural unit of the recitation performance is the phrase followed by a pause. The reciter is free to end his melodic phrase at any ...
( Category: Islam April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc David Baer [Baer, Marc David]

The Second Polish Campaign and the Death of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha The following year Mehmed IV had to wage a second campaign to ensure the Treaty of Buczacz that guaranteed ...
( Category: Islam April 1,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:L'aventure ambiguë

( Category: Contemporary April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-14 | Author:Mohja Kahf [Kahf, Mohja]

In the months after the wedding, not a week went by when someone didn't ask Khadra if she was pregnant. "Why not?" Aunt Fatma said in dismay, when Khadra explained ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 29,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:John Alden Williams [Williams, John Alden]

Antinomians A wave of persecution of the Ṣūfīs of Baghdad followed the execution of al-Ḥallāj, and many Ṣūfīs moved to Khurāsān and Transoxania, where the Samānī princes were more tolerant. ...
( Category: Islam March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Khan, Inayat, Hazrat [Khan, Inayat, Hazrat]

Concentration and Meditation Mystic relaxation and meditation is one and the same. From a physical point of view there is one condition, the condition of contracting and stretching, which enables ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2005-02-20 | Author:

“CAIRO DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM” AT THE UN The CDHRI was supposed to “serve as a general guidance for Member States in the field of human rights,” and ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 23,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Huseyin Abiva & Noura Durkee [Abiva, Huseyin]

A few days after selecting ‘Umar to be the next khalifah, Abu Bakr died at the age of 63, as had his beloved master and friend Muhammad. After the funeral ...
( Category: Islam March 22,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-08 | Author:Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel [Haleem, M.A.S. Abdel]

19: 26–38 26so eat, drink, be glad, and say to anyone you may see: “I have vowed to the Lord of Mercy to abstain1 from conversation, and I will not ...
( Category: Islam March 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hüseyin Yılmaz

The Shadow of God on Earth No appellative better illustrates the corollary between God’s government and the sultan’s rulership than “shadow of God.”24 Besides indiscriminate uses of the term as ...
( Category: Middle East March 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ziolkowski, Jan M.;

Islam in Dante’s Italy Mendicants and Muslims in Dante’s Florence JOHN TOLAN E poi che, per la sete del martiro, ne la presenza del Soldan superba predicò Cristo e li ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )