mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | 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. ...

mobi | | | Author:Ramadan, Tariq. [Ramadan, Tariq.]

Culture and Meaning Culture is an essential element. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-14 | Author:Reza Aslan

These four rituals—communal prayer, the paying of alms, the fast of Ramadan, and the Hajj pilgrimage—provide meaning to the Muslim faith and unity to the Muslim community. Yet one could ...

mobi |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Reza Aslan

These four rituals—communal prayer, the paying of alms, the fast of Ramadan, and the Hajj pilgrimage—provide meaning to the Muslim faith and unity to the Muslim community. Yet one could ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Steven Barboza

Chapter Four Ecstasy Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Talha and Zubayr were both dead by noon. Talha had taken command of the cavalry and fought valiantly. He might even have prevailed if he had not been shot in ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Tamim Ansary

THE MOGHULS (ROUGHLY 900 TO 1273 AH) The Moghuls were every bit the equal of the Ottomans in wealth and strength. About 20 percent of the world’s current population lives ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Tamim Ansary

THE MOGHULS (ROUGHLY 900 TO 1273 AH) The Moghuls were every bit the equal of the Ottomans in wealth and strength. About 20 percent of the world’s current population lives ...

mobi |eng | 2006-05-14 | Author:Ehsan Masood

Ibn-Sina’s critics Ibn-Sina and other doctors of the period were very much experimentalists. They would play with different treatments and if something didn’t work, they were happy to discard it ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

The Tree of the Sefiroth Some Kabbalists saw the sefiroth as the limbs of primordial man as originally intended by God. This was what the Bible had meant when it ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Stephen O'Shea

The Almoravids, whose empire stretched from the river Niger to La Mancha and from the Algarve to Libya, disappeared from Spain in the middle years of the twelfth century. The ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Walid Shoebat & Ben Barrack

SECTION 6 Arab Thaw And Geopolitics CHAPTER 15 NORTH AFRICAN DOMINOES DRACULA LIVES Perhaps there are no two words that better exemplify what we mean by JBTW than, “Arab Spring”. ...