The arab-israeli conflict

a history

With the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents, David Lesch, a widely respected university scholar and commentator on modern Middle Eastern politics, presents the most balanced and accessible account of the conflict to date. The book presents a variety of perspectives, along with concise and ...

Palestina

destrucción del presente, construcción del futuro

Los recientes acontecimientos de Palestina, desde la previsible victoria electoral de Hamas hasta la no menos previsible ruptura entre esta organización y la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, con el telón de fondo de la hostilidad israelí y estadounidense #y el silencio cómplice de la Unión Europea ...

International treaties (Mu 'ahadat) in Islam

theory and practice in the light of islamic international Law (Siyar) according to orthodox schools

Intemational Treaties (Mu'ahadat) in Islam: Theory and Practice in the Light of Islamic International Law (Siyar) according to Orthodox Schools is a study that seeks to explain Islamic international legal theory regarding treaties with non-Muslims, The treaties selected in this book cover the full ...

Los místicos del Islam

«Los místicos del Islam de R. A. Nicholson fue el primer libro de Occidente que ofreció una imagen lúcida y favorable de la mística islámica, y creo que muchos estudiosos y lectores en general han recibido su primera introducción a los aspectos espirituales del Islam ...

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta was famous in his own lifetime during the 14th Century as the greatest traveller of the age. He traversed the whole Islamic world (from his native Tangier to China), and crossed over its boundaries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. He was variously attacked ...

Dictionary of Islam

The Peguin dictionary of Islam

Islam today is a truly global faith, yet it remains somewhat of an enigma to many of us. Each and every day our newspapers are saturated with references to Islam; Quran, Taliban, Hijab, Fatwa, Allah, Sunni, Jihad, Shia, the list goes on. But how much ...

Women in Islam and the Middle East

a reader

Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other sources and historical precedents. These key texts remain inaccessible to English- speaking readers ...

Les arabes d'Israël

entre intégration et rupture

En 1947, le plan de partage de l'ONU prévoyant la partition de la Palestine entre un Etat arabe et un Etat juif est rejeté par les pays arabes. La proclamation de l'indépendance d'Israël en 1948 provoque la première guerre israélo-arabe qui se ...

Justice, punishment and the medieval muslim imagination

How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in ...

Los dos mensajes del Islam

razón y violencia en la tradición islámica

¿Cuáles son los verdaderos postulados del islamismo? ¿Qué caracteriza el llamado «islamismo radical»? En Los dos mensajes del Islam, Antonio Elorza nos desvela lo contrario de islamismo: el pensamiento musulmán progresista, basado en un conjunto de corrientes de pensamiento de carácter minoritario, pero de gran ...

Women, family, and gender in Islamic Law

In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have they used the legal system to enhance their social and economic position? In an analysis of Islamic law through the ...

Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama´at

history, belief, practice

Simon Ross Valentine has written the first scholarly evaluation of the teachings, beliefs, and lifestyle of the Ahmaddiya Jama'at, an Islamic reform group founded in nineteenth-century India that currently boasts millions of followers worldwide. To the great aggravation of other Muslims, the Ahmadis assert ...

Journeys to the other shore

muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge

The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the ...

Usos y costumbres de Marruecos

Selección y prólogo de El Hassance Arabi. Los usos y costumbres marroquíes representan un mosaico cultural, una mezcla de las variadas civilizaciones que en Marruecos se establecían. Usos y costumbres de aportación fenicia, bizantina, romana, africana, judía, musulmana, cristiana y beréber; algunos se mezclaron con ...

Mahoma, Dar-El Islam, Maimónides

dos historias sobre el monoteísmo semita

¿Cómo hablar a estas alturas del monoteísmo semita sin explicitar al tiempo su radical condición patriarcal? ¿Cómo limitarse a recordar retazos y textos de ancestrales historias de origen sin avanzar hasta la sombría actualidad de nuestros días, agitada por delirios de guerra santa y cruzada ...

Egypt after Mubarak

liberalism, Islam, and democracy in the arab world

Egypt's autocratic regime is being weakened by economic crises, growing political opposition, and the pressures of globalization. Observers now wonder which way Egypt will go when the country's aging president, Husni Mubarak, passes from the scene: will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy ...

The theory and practice of islamic terrorism

an anthology

Eds., Marvin Perry and Howard E. Negrin The first anthology designed to enhance the reader#s understanding of the multiple dimensions of Islamic terrorism by presenting a cross- section of recent articles and selections from cutting-edge books on this subject. Biography: Marvin Perry is a ...

The brief eminence and doomed fall of Islamic Saragossa. A great center of Jewish and Arabic learning in the Iberian Peninsula during the 11th century

Estudio histórico, escrito en inglés, sobre la cultura árabe y judía en la Zaragoza durante el siglo XI.

The Ismaili Assassins

a history of medieval murder

Foreword by David Morgan. A History of Medieval Murder. Few people know the truth about the enigmatic organisation known as the Assassins. An underground group of political killers, they were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for the consequences of their ...

Partisans of Allah

Jihad in South Asia

The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith and ethics, and yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosophical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today ...