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100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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Sacred Violence
The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City and how that relationship...
The Two Faces of Islam
Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism,...
Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North—China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America—and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of experience...
Lebanon
The Politics of a Penetrated Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In a time of great political change and unrest in the Middle East, this highly topical text offers a succinct account of the contemporary political environment in Lebanon. Tom Najem provides both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from...
The Iraq Effect
The Middle East After the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war's long-term consequences, the authors analyzed its effects on the regional balance of power, local perceptions of U.S. credibility, the domestic stability...
by Hassan A. Barari
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The book is a fresh interpretation of Israeli foreign policy vis-à-vis the peace process, one that deems domestic political factors as the key to explain the shift within Israel from war to peace. The main assumption is that peacemaking that entails territorial compromise is an issue that can only...
Consuming Desires
Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to these dynamics, new types of marriage that evade the control of the state and religious authorities have emerged. These marriages allow for men and women...
Inviting Muslims to Christ
A Clear Path to Salvation Including Quotations/Commentary from the Bible and Quran
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The prupose and intent for this resouce book's focus is to extend the hand of peace, fellowship and mutual respect toward all humanity and especially all Muslims throughout the world. We commit to respect each other's sacred texts, the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran. Confirming that while we share...
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East
Histories and Representations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.
Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth...
Islam in Context
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In recent months, much attention has been paid to Islam and the greater Muslim world. Some analysis has been openly hostile, while even more has been overly simplistic. Islam in Context goes behind the recent crisis to discuss the history of Islam, describe its basic structure and beliefs, explore...
US Foreign Policy and the Gulf Wars
Decision-making and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The US-led coalition which launched an invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003 led to a decade-long military presence in the country. In the run-up to that invasion, many comparisons were made with the 1991 Gulf War. Ahmed Ijaz Malik takes these two instances of military intervention by Republican US governments...
Us versus Them
The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from containing the "Red Threat" of international communism to combating the "Green Threat" of radical Islam after 1989. Little analyzes America's...
by Robert G. Hoyland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions,...