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by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East,...
Where Peaceful Waters Flow
Words Of Encouragement Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Do you want to experience Jesus like never before? Then come and sit at His feet. In Psalm 46:10, He tells us to "Be still and know that He is God". When you take time to be still in the presence of the Lord, He will begin to minister and reveal things to you which could...
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Muslim Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Malaysia and Indonesia are seen as bastions of liberal Islam. Is this really true or simply a widely held misconception about south-east Asian Muslims? What is the contribution of the Muslim archipelago to the world of Islam? What can we learn from Malaysian and Indonesian experiments in democracy?...
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Reclaiming Al-Andalus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Martin Munoz is dismayed by the works of the Spanish Orientalists, Emilio...
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The Arabs are Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In the inaugural issue of Critical Muslim: Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the bullets of Gaddafi's henchmen, Abdelwahab El-Affendi traces the roots of...
Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent
Inside British Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
This is a syllabus for academic study with references to outside reading material. It presumes familiarity with the text of the Bible and a mind ready for baccalaureate level study in cultural backgrounds. The course traces the development of Western intellectual traditions and how they affect reading...
Russia's Muslim Heartlands
Islam in the Putin Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The Bible is Ancient Truth, but must be read in its own ancient context to be fully understood. Even the people among whom Jesus lived no longer understood their own Hebrew heritage because the leadership had embraced Western intellectual assumptions which were then foreign to Scripture. Where we...
From Independence to Revolution
Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
From Independence to Revolution tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition -- the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihadists constantly vying for power under successive...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Things are not what they seem. Most of us realize that we cannot trust always our perceptions for any number of different reasons. We are used to questioning advertisements, and perhaps regard news and information sources with some level of suspicion. But what if your entire civilization is built...
Rebel Law
Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This is why successful rebels put courts and justice at the top of their agendas....
Before Intelligence Failed
British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public failings. From the Soviet Union...
Lebanon
A Country in Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow after blow, from Rafiq Hariri's assassination in 2005, to the 2006 July War, to the current Syrian conflict, which has brought a million refugees streaming into the country. This is an account not just of...