Islam
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Parvin Darabi

The next day I called the School of Medicine at USC. I also called UCLA to see if they had any openings. After a few days of calling the medical ...
( Category: African March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jason Burke

9. Back to Kurdistan I spread the photographs out and stood back. Ali Hamad Massood, the mayor of Qala Diza, looked at them silently, moving them around the glass top ...
( Category: African March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Charles H. Dyer & Mark . Tobey [Dyer, Charles H.]

ANCIENT RUINS, MODERN SIGNIFICANCE Yet Samarra’s significance runs much deeper. The city was founded in AD 836 by an Abbasid caliph who moved his capital here from Baghdad. For fifty ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-09 | Author:Amina Wadud [Wadud, Amina]

I will consider these Qur'anic verses in detail and discuss syntactically the equity of recompense,15 with a particular focus on the Arabic neuter. Through this discussion I wish to demonstrate ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 1,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Justin Marozzi

The remarkable Adila ushered in a unique and all too brief era in which women, or at least those of the royal household, were able to exercise considerable power over ...
( Category: Middle East March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Moojan Momen

7. Futuwwah (chivalric brotherhoods) In the cities of the Sunni Islamic world, particularly from the tenth century onwards, fraternities grew among the guilds, merchants and artisan classes of the Islamic ...
( Category: Shi'ism March 1,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-29 | Author:M. A. Khan

After the first heady days of independence in 1947, Indian historians poured out ‘nationalist’ histories that found no redeeming features in the British Empire. Later, every ill, every failure, every ...
( Category: History February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ardıc̦, Nurullah.

The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) A member of the Hashemite tribe in Mecca, Hussein ibn ‘Ali (1853–1931), was appointed as sharif of Mecca (1908–1916) by the Young Turks who had deposed ...
( Category: Middle East February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fenwick, Stewart;

Piety as a social marker There is value in assessing both the contemporary approach to classifying approaches to Islamic faith in Indonesia, and in attempting to characterise MUI itself using ...
( Category: Law February 29,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd [Zayd, Nasr Hamid Abu]

The Past and the Present: The Root and the Branch It is obvious that in any dialectical relationship one of the parties to the relationship has theoretical priority and takes ...
( Category: Philosophy February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ayoub, Mahmoud;

Mu‘āwiyah’s Opposition The conflict between ‘Alī and Mu‘āwiyah rested on ‘Alī’s conviction of the unquestionable legitimacy of his caliphal authority and on Mu‘āwiyah’s increasing insistence on his own right to ...
( Category: Islam February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Malalai Joya

Chapter 9 House of Warlords On December 19, 2005, the freshly elected members of Parliament were ushered into buses and paraded through the cold winter streets of Kabul on our ...
( Category: Women in Islam February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-28 | Author:Kenneth E. Bailey [Bailey, Kenneth E.]

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. (Verse 16) The prodigal desperately wanted to eat the pods that ...
( Category: New Testament February 29,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-07-20 | Author:Abdulwasiu Baruwa [Baruwa, Abdulwasiu]

( Category: Islam February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-27 | Author:Bukay, David

Say: “Fighting (Qitāl) is a grave matter, and hindering from Allah’s way . . . from the sacred mosque and driving its people out of it (Ikhrāj) are still graver ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 28,2020 )