mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Hazleton, Lesley [Hazleton, Lesley]

Fourteen The Battle of Badr was fought on March 17, 624, and if it was not quite what Muhammad had sought, it would turn out to be exactly what he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, mobi |zho | 2009-08-05 | Author:Crowley, Roger [Crowley, Roger]

Because of its protected position within the boom and the immense pressure being applied at the land wall, the sea wall along the Horn was barely guarded at all. There ...

epub |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:John Freely [Freely, John]

On another topic, Bacon writes that “it has been proved by certain experiments” that life can be greatly extended by “secret experiences.” One of his recommendations for achieving an exceptionally ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Ehsan Masood

Doctor of the heart Ibn al-Nafis was born in Damascus in 1213 but subsequently moved to Cairo, which by then had some of the most advanced hospitals in the Islamic ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Usama Ibn Munqidh

§ Another Example of their Medicine Another example of their wondrous medicine was related to us by William de Bures,246 lord of Tiberias and a man with some standing among ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Justin Marozzi [Justin Marozzi]

If the Bibi Khanum Mosque was Temur’s most extravagant religious building in Samarkand, the mausolea of Shah-i-Zinda (the Living King) was his holiest. The site itself, which lay beyond the ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-11-02 | Author:Spencer Robert

Muhammad was more specific when Asma, daughter of one of his leading companions (and first successor) Abu Bakr, came to see him while "wearing thin clothes." "O Asma," exclaimed the ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Meaning of Exertion in the Path of God: Jihd In the West, Islam is often associated with holy war, despite the fact that the Crusades were ordered by the ...