Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against the Yazidi people began. The catastropheISIS murdered the men and boys in the village, including Farida's father and brother, and took the women hostage. Farida was one of them. She was held in a slave camp, in the homes of ISIS members and finally in...
The Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijōit (History of Christian-Muslim Relations)
by Jason R. Zaborowski
Cultural Imperialism (Institute for Cultural Research monographs, #6)
by Robert Cecil
A full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the ongoing process of becoming a democracy GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691036', 'ISBN:9780748691043', 'ISBN:9780748691050', 'ISBN:9780748691067']); From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long overdue in the Arab world. Mixing political, hist...
Swimming to the Moon
by Jeffrey Michael McMahon and Jessica Warrick
Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice (Themes in Islamic History)
by Marion Holmes Katz
The five daily prayers (Salāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing Salāt, the historical dimensions of its practice and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salāt. This innovative study on the...
Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition. While many studies sift through the biographies of these so-called martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labeled "suicide bombings," Nathan French argues that, through their legal arguments, Jihadi-Salafis craft a theodicy that is meant to address th...
Sophia Volume 16, Number 2
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Dr Wolfgang Smith, and Charles Upton