Les fabrique du Jihad

Les turqueries du grand Mamamouchi

El islamismo político en Marruecos

retrato desde dentro

Políticas de la negación

Israel y los refugiados palestinos

Focus de l'origene journal d'intifada

Hezbollah

the changing face of terrorism

El islam y el mito del enfrentamiento

Modernitation, democracy and islam

L'Islam è compatible con la democrazia?

El lenguaje de las alusiones

amor, compasión y belleza en el sufismo de Ibn Arabi

Crime and punishment in Islamic Law

theory and practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Rudolph Peters' book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western ...

Holy War, holy peace

how religion can bring peace to the middle east

War has been made holy by the families of Abraham, and the monotheistic religions of those families, for many centuries. But, argues Marc Gopin, peacemaking was made holy too, through a variety of cultural and religious practices that have been virtually overlooked by scholars and ...

Ottoman reform and Muslim regeneration

The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close ...

En el nombre del otro

reflexiones sobre el antisemitismo que viene

En la mejor tradición del ensayismo polemista y combativo francés, este texto de Alain Finkielkraut, uno de los más brillantes intelectuales europeos de hoy en día, supone una disección sin paliativos de la realidad actual frente al antisemitismo. Ante la alarmante crecida de las ideas ...

Los árabes

La actualidad política mundial y la compleja evolución de los acontecimientos en el Oriente Medio han convertido a los árabes en tema de interés general, y han multiplicado las informaciones sobre ellos. Sin embargo las ignorancias se manifiestan igualmente generales. El especialista o lector interesado ...

Morocco

the islamist awakening and other challenges

In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction of glaring ...

'Abd al-Rahman III

the first cordoban caliph

Covers the life and work of Abd al-Rahman III, the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph, as well as doing much to stabilise the borders with Christian Spain.

'Abd al-Malik

'Abd al-Malik , who came to prominence during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic empire from 692 until 705. Not only did he successfully suppress rebellion within the Muslim world and expand its frontiers, but in many respects he founded the empire ...

Abu Nuwas

a genius of poetry

Abu Nuwas (c.756-813) was one of the greatest Arab poets of the classical period. In literary history he is remembered chiefly as the hard-drinking and eloquent composer of dissolute wine poems, from which he emerges as one of the most charismatic figures in world ...

Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi

in the path of the prophet

Ahmad Riza Khan (1856-1921), the leader of the twentieth-century Barelwi movement, was a scholar of Islamic law and a Sufi mystic in British India. This book examines the life and thought of Ahmad Riza Khan in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British ...