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 ...

Medieval islamic philosophical writings

Hizbullah

the story from within

The resistance group Hizbullah ('Party of God') formed in 1982 in response to Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and were instrumental in eventually forcing Israel to withdraw its troops altogether - thus ending a twenty-two-year-old military occupation. Many armed factions had sprung up in the ...

Les turqueries du grand Mamamouchi

Islam obscured

the rhetoric of anthropological representation

Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest ...

Políticas de la negación

Israel y los refugiados palestinos

Atlas histórico del mundo islámico

Islamicités

Le débat civique se construit et se bloque en France autour d'une image globale de l'islam comme religion et comme culture, un islam induisant une solution de continuité des principes et même du territoire de la République. Ce débat se radicalise de manière ...

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 ...

Glosario árabe español de indumentaria según el Kitab Al-Mujassaas de Ibn Sidah

INDICE: Prefacio. Estudio. Presentación. El autor y su obra. Organizando el trabajo: la indumentaria ocmo terminología. Técnica lexicográfica: criterios de presentación. Glosario. Abreviaturas y signos empleados. Ilustraciones. Bibliografía.

El lenguaje de las alusiones

amor, compasión y belleza en el sufismo de Ibn Arabi

Resurgent Islam a sociological approach

The contemporary resurgence of Islam in all of its varied manifestations demands the attention of social scientists. This ground- breaking book provides a unique insight into resurgent Islam from the standpoint of sociology. Clearly written, and jargon free, the book aims to create a more ...

The Palestinian National Movement

politics of contention, 1967-2005

This innovative study examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. The PLO leadership has sought to prevent the rise of any alternative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that can challenge ...

Religion, social practice, and contested hegemonies

reconstructing the public sphere in Muslim majority societies

This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary ...

'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 ...

Amir Khusraw

the poet of sultans and Sufis

The Indian courtier, writer, musician and Sufi Amir Khusraw (1253-1325) is widely regarded as one of his country's greatest poets. As a writer in India, he was conscious of the larger Persian literary world as well as local tastes and preferences and wrote a ...

Pakistan

At the Crosscurrent of History

This controversial book explores one nation's journey from the margins of history to the centre of the world stage. Tracing the development of the country from its birth in 1947 to the present day, Ziring explores how a country once envisaged as a secular ...

Recopilación de algunos nombres arábigos

que los árabes pusieron a algunas ciudades y a otras muchas cosas

La Recopilación de Diego de Guadix es sin duda una obra amplia, compleja y sistemática. En ella se registran todas las palabras y significados que (en cualquier lengua conocida por Guadix), procedían, a su juicio, del árabe. La mayor parte de la obra se dedica ...

Buscando desesperadamente el paraíso

viajes de un musulmán escéptico

¿Por qué la percepción de los norteamericanos se aparta tanto de la del resto del mundo? ¿Por qué la presunción de inocencia y de rectitud es tan importante para su autoimagen? ¿Por qué el pueblo norteamericano es tan extremadamente ignorante sobre los asuntos internacionales? ¿Por ...