Islam
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Malcolm Nance

Turkish authorities also have confiscated hundreds of antiquities, particularly in cities adjacent to the border, but are unwilling to disclose information about the objects. The lack of transparency indicates that ...
( Category: Radicalism August 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

HIS RANK AMONG THE IMAMIS As a result of his compilation of the Kitāb al-Kāfī, Shaykh al-Kulaynī always enjoyed great respect among Imami scholars, and as much in Baghdad as ...
( Category: Islam July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-18 | Author:Tarif Khalidi [Khalidi, Tarif]

Of significance in this passage is the reference to the “two origins” (nash’atayn) of Muhammad, which is an important clue to Ibn al-‘Arabi’s conception of Muhammad as a figure both ...
( Category: Islam July 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Benjamin Hall

Photo by REX Alan Henning, Aid worker, murdered by ISIS, October 3, 2014 CHAPTER ELEVEN Alan Henning and David Haines “Alan is a peaceful, selfless man who left his family ...
( Category: Radicalism July 19,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Caroline Cox & John Marks [Cox, Caroline]

Waqf and Islamic finance Jonathan Benthall and Jerome Bellion-Jourdan251 argue that Waqf and Islamic finance are grounded in Islamic tradition. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries they have become major ...
( Category: Fascism July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-06 | Author:Peter Samsel

Fanā’-Baqā’ and the Shahādah Foundational Sources And call not upon another god with God; there is no god but He. Everything is perishing except His Face. – Qur’ān 28:88 The ...
( Category: Islam July 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Chapter 20 ṬĀ HĀ Introduction The chronology of the Sūrah has some significance: it has some relation to the spiritual lessons which it teaches. It was used with great effect ...
( Category: Quran June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-07 | Author:Victoria de la Luz Reyes [de la Luz Reyes, Victoria]

There are many hadiths for the slaves of Allah to pattern their lives after. Given the documented facts of the prophet of Islam—the messenger of Allah, the last prophet—Muhammed still ...
( Category: Islam June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

‘Consummation.’ The sexual appetites of the male decline; those of the female continue, with the advancing years, to grow. Isabella is Columbus’s last hope. He is running out of possible ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Franklin D. Lewis [Lewis, Franklin D.]

A better place for me’s the Sufi lodge but even there I’ve not a moment’s peace A crowd of porridge-guzzlers look me over eyes full of ejaculant, hands on their ...
( Category: Poetry June 10,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

The problem of booty Allah rewarded those to whom he had granted victory. There was great booty for the victors—so much, in fact, that it became a bone of contention. ...
( Category: Radicalism June 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Ziauddin Sardar

5 Varieties of Muslim Belief There are distinct differences between the belief systems of the two major groups in Islam - the Sunnis and Shia. As the majority community, most ...
( Category: Islam June 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Brown, Jonathan A.C.

( Category: Islam May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Patrick Cockburn [Cockburn, Patrick]

7 Saudi Arabia Tries to Pull Back A chilling five-minute film made by ISIS shows its fighters stopping three large trucks on what looks like the main highway linking Syria ...
( Category: Terrorism May 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Gambetta, Diego; Hertog, Steffen;

Right Left Traditionalism (including women’s subordination) ✓ × Corporatist/organic view of society ✓ × Hierarchical view of social order ✓ × Acceptance of social inequality ✓ × Authoritarian vision of ...
( Category: Violence in Society May 18,2016 )