Islam
epub |eng | | Author:Noah Feldman [Feldman, Noah]

THE DIVERSITY OF THE ARABS A rab and Muslim history, culture, and politics are deeply intertwined. The Prophet Muhammad was an Arab, whose message, the Qur’an, was revealed to him ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-13 | Author:Hanan Al-Shaykh [al-Shaykh, Hanan]

Muhammad, despairing that things might never return to the way they’d been, wrote me a letter. I had insisted that all letters be delivered by hand. I could no longer ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Manal Omar

I celebrated the new year in Baghdad by looking for a doghouse. During one of my random altercations at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone, a U.S. soldier questioned me ...
( Category: Memoirs June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr [Nasr, Seyyed Hossein]

Part IV Postscript Chapter Fifteen The Islamic World Present Tendencies and Future Trends The survival of traditional Islam in the modern world, the intrusion of modernism into dār al-islām, and ...
( Category: World June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-02-20 | Author:Phares, Walid [Phares, Walid]

THE SPREAD OF JIHADISM: INNER AND OUTER During the Cold War, the jihadist ideologies spread in all directions, mostly under the radar of the contending superpowers, but also sometimes in ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Qutb, Sayyid [Qutb, Sayyid]

"Whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it; whatever he forbids you, refrain from it." (59:7) Furthermore, Islam asks: "Do you know better, or does God?" and then answers it: "God ...
( Category: Islam June 13,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Ibn Warraq [Warraq, Ibn]

Groups to Be Fought One of Ibn Taymiyya’s major concerns was to fight those who rebelled against legitimate authority. Then there were those who failed to live up to their ...
( Category: Quran May 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ahmad Von Denffer

Similarly 5: 8 arjulakum53 and arjulikum54 carry two meanings: your feet Both are indeed correct, for under normal circumstances a man will wash his feet, while some other person e.g. ...
( Category: Quran May 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sabrina Mahfouz

5. The Phone Call, Flat (NOW) Yusuf is on the phone. PAUL: There you are! New number. YUSUF: Yes. Sorry. PAUL: I heard what happened. Are you okay? YUSUF: Yeah. ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Anita D Boseman & Vann Boseman [Boseman, Anita D & Boseman, Vann]

The Arab root abd, meaning slave, became synonymous to black slaves while the word mamluk referred to a light-skinned slave, with the black slave typically being lower in rank. The ...
( Category: Islam May 11,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Boseman, Vann & Boseman, Anita [Boseman, Vann]

The Arab root abd, meaning slave, became synonymous to black slaves while the word mamluk referred to a light-skinned slave, with the black slave typically being lower in rank. The ...
( Category: World May 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jackson

Pluralism and false reports of conversion In chapter 11 we saw how Mongol attitudes towards the numinous led khans and their lieutenants to be open to the techniques employed by ...
( Category: Asia May 3,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Darwish, Nonie [Darwish, Nonie]

Envy Envy Is a Sin vs. Envy Is a Curse Pride often leads to envy. An inflated view of yourself tends to lead you to compare yourself with others and ...
( Category: Ethics May 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Patrick Sookhdeo [Sookhdeo, Patrick]

Contemporary Muslim Debate 8 Currently Islamic teaching on war is in a state of flux. The Muslim press, in particular Muslim cyberspace, is filled with debate and discussion about the ...
( Category: Middle East April 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Künkler, Mirjam; Stepan, Alfred;

Force So far the story is a familiar and perhaps even comforting one: a democratizing regime tries to survive the wave of popular mobilization that accompanies its birth by granting ...
( Category: Asia April 11,2017 )