Islam in the Middle East

a living tradition

This concise book offers a nuanced introduction to Islam in the Middle East. It presents Islam as both a unified tradition of theological dogma and practices that transcends cultural differences and a dynamic tradition that is historically informed, locally shaped, and continually reinterpreted. Using numerous ...

La España convertida al islam

La existencia de un islam organizado en España constituye un hecho que no cabe soslayar. Más allá de una imagen predeterminada, resulta necesario saber ¿quiénes son?, ¿qué defienden?, ¿cuál es su discurso? La presencia musulmana en nuestro país no es un fenómeno unitario. Cada tendencia ...

The life of Saladin

based on the works of Baha´ad-Din ibn Shaddad and ´Imad ad-Din al- Isfahani

Saladin, the Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, conquered Jerusalem in 1187 and repelled the Crusaders. Though he was later defeated by England's Richard I, Saladin's great skill and honourable conduct would become enshrined in European as well as Muslim lore. Sir Hamilton ...

A history of modern Palestine

one land, two peoples

Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region. The second edition of ...

Medieval islamic swords and swordmaking

kindi's treatise "on swords and their kinds"

One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise ...

El mundo árabe e islámico

experiencia histórica, realidad política y evolución socio-económica

En este mundo globalizado en que vivimos, pretendidamente uniformador, se aprecia una conciencia creciente de la diversidad de identidades y culturas. EL mundo árabe, mucho más el mundo islámico, constituye una parte esencial de esa diversidad de la era global. A veces, la existencia de ...

Les sarrasins

l'islam dans l'imagination européenne au Moyen Age

Au premier siècle de l'islam, la majeure partie de l'Empire romain chrétien, de la Syrie à l'Espagne, passa sous la coupe des musulmans. Confrontés à cette conquête aux proportions inédites, comment les chrétiens du Moyen Age réagirent-ils, face à ce qu'ils ...

Histoire de l'Islam et des musulmans en France du Moyen Âge à nos jours

De la bataille de Poitiers aux croisades, des échanges intellectuels du Moyen Age à l'orientalisme, de la colonisation à la guerre d'Algérie jusqu'aux débats actuels sur l'immigration, plus de soixante-dix spécialistes, historiens ou grands témoins retracent treize siècles d'une histoire ...

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal

In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali. Upholding the view that the Qur'an was uncreated and the direct word of God, Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) thought that the holy ...

Mu'awiya Ibn Abi Sufyan

from Arabia to Empire

In this accessible study, Stephen Humphreys introduces the most elusive of the early caliphs, Mu'awiya ibn abi Sufyan (602-680). Notoriously guarded about his thoughts, motives and emotions, Mu'awiya was universally known as a figure of immense political acumen. Beyond this, opinions are deeply ...

Nasser

hero of the arab Nation

To cite an old Egyptian cliche, Nasser (1918-1970) was the 'first Egyptian to rule Egypt since Cleopatra.' Deposing the corrupt king Farouk, abolishing the monarchy and negotiating the withdrawal of the British, Nasser was truly beloved by millions. Even after catastrophic military disaster in the ...

Crescent between cross and star

muslims and the west after 9/11

Tragic events like 9/11 have only intensified anti-Muslim campaigns at various levels and places. Other than the devastating invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq with more feared to come, Muslim human rights and their religious heritage have come under an assault in the Holy Land ...

Ibn Khaldûn, un islam des "Lumières"?

Un historien du XIVe siècle peut-il nous apprendre quelque chose aujourd'hui ? Oui, dans le cas d'Ibn Khaldûn. Depuis plus d'un siècle, la pensée occidentale n'a-t-elle pas récupéré dans ses propres catégories cet intellectuel du monde arabe, trop connu pour être bien ...

Middle east historiographies

narrating the twentieth century

"Middle East Historiographies" examines Middle East history writing from the cusp of the twenty-first century. Internationally renowned scholars consider how individual historians, historical schools, and historical paradigms have shaped the study of the history of the Middle East over the twentieth century, chiefly after the ...

Descripción del Egipto otomano según las crónicas de viajeros españoles, hispanoamericanos y otros textos (1806-1924)

Tras la llegada de las tropas napoleónicas a Egipto en 1798, esta provincia otomana comienza un largo proceso de reformas alentadas inicialmente por Mehmed Ali cuyo objetivo era modernizar el país. Egipto se pone de moda en Europa cuando el I Imperio francés adopta un ...

Jean-Paul Sartre and the jewish question

anti-antisemitism and the politics of the french intellectual

"Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question" examines the image of "the Jew" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French identity ...

The literature of Al-Andalus

The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued ...

Muslims and the state in Britain, France and Germany

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 ...

Catalunya any zero

el paper de l'islam en els nostres orígens