Occidentalismo

breve historia del sentimiento antioccidental

Hace un cuarto de siglo, Orientalismo, el libro de Edward Said, identificó con nitidez las fantasías denigrantes de «Oriente» que existían en la mentalidad colonial, con lo cual prendió la chispa de un debate que aún prosigue. Ahora bien: ¿Y qué hay de los muchos ...

Musulmans de France et d'Europe

Comment l'Europe perçoit-elle les musulmans qui vivent dans sa région depuis les événements du 11 septembre 2001 ? Qui sont ces hommes et ces femmes, issus de l'immigration, difficiles à nommer, à compter et dont les revendications en termes de citoyenneté et d'identité ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Un Islam non arabe

horizons indiens et pakistanais

La majorité des musulmans de la planète ne sont ni Arabes, ni arabophones. Il est donc important de faire le point sur la perception de la centralité religieuse, politique et culturelle arabe par les sociétés non arabes de l'Islam, en mettant un accent particulier ...

edieval islamic political thought

The author aims to make Islamic political thought easier for modern readers to understand by relating it to the contexts in which it was formulated, analysing it in terms familiar to the reader, and, where possible, comparing it with medieval European and modern thought. Guiding ...

Fatah and the politics of violence

the institutionalization of a popular struggle

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that have influenced Fatah's politics of violence, and its political path -- and the balance between the two -- help to explain the political history of the ...

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 ...

Future Jihad

terrorist strategies against America

This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Called by the press ...

The future of Iraq

dictatoriaship, democracy or division?

Reordering Iraq is the lynchpin of America's successful involvement in the Middle East. The challenge may be impossible. "The Future of Iraq" provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of this pivotal state divided by ethnic, religious, and political antagonisms, and provocatively ...

El Islam institucional en el Egipto contemporáneo

Estudio sobre las dos instituciones islámicas oficiales en Egipto, y la producción de un discurso islámico oficial. Estas instituciones son al-Azhar y Dar al Ifta; la primera goza de la reputación de una institución milenaria, mientras que la segunda, fundada en 1895, surge de una ...

El islamismo

la última guerra mundial

El islamismo -siempre habrá que reiterarlo- no es el Islam. La guerra en contra del islamismo no puede ser en ningún caso una guerra entre culturas; mucho menos una guerra entre religiones. El islamismo es una ideología y una práctica totalitaria construida sobre la base ...

My vision

Conversation and Frank exchanges of views with Edmond Jouve

In September 2004, the international embargo and sanctions imposed on Libya for more than a decade were raised by the UN Security Council when Colonel Gaddafi announced that Libya would give up its nuclear weapons. In addition he agreed to compensate the families of the ...

A student grammar of modern standard arabic

This accessible grammar provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the structure of Modern Standard Arabic. Using familiar terminology and keeping theory to a minimum, it is suitable for beginning students as well as those at a more advanced level. Detailed descriptions of all types ...

El libro conplido en los Iudizios de las Estrellas

partes 6 a 8

INDICE: Nota preliminar, Introducción. El prólogo del libro conplido como declaración programática de la actividad científica del Rey Sabio. La fecha de la versión castellana. El autor árabe del libro conplido y la fecha de composición de su obra. El traductor del libro conplido, Yehudá ...

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 ...

Modern Literary Arabic: A Reference Grammar

English-Arabic. a comprehensive reference grammar of literary Arabic as it is written today. It discusses all the morphological and syntactical aspects of the language. beginning with basic elements. . .and proceeding to more complex structures...by Dr. Ron Buckley. The present work is a comprehensive reference ...

Breve Enciclopedia del Islam

Para orientarse dentro de la complejísima realidad que integra el vasto mundo del islam se hace necesaria una guía que seleccione y defina con claridad sus conceptos, movimientos y personajes fundamentales. Gordon D. Newby ofrece en su BREVE ENCICLOPEDIA DEL ISLAM un completo compendio que ...

Dictionnaire amoureux del'Islam