What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam

• Author : John L. Esposito
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 13 July 2011

Uses a question and answer format to present information on topics including faith and practice, Islam and other religions, customs and culture, and Muslims in the West.

• Author : John L. Esposito
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 01 November 2002

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam. As a leading expert, John Esposito has found himself called upon to speak to a wide range of audiences, including members of Congress, the Bush administration, government agencies, the military, and the media. Out of this experience, he has identified the most pressing questions people consistently ask about Islam. In What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, Esposito presents in

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : PediaPress
• Release : 07 February 2023

• Author : Suzanne Haneef
• Publisher : Library of Islom Limited
• Release : 07 February 1979

Surveys the basic teachings of Islam.

• Author : Kaya Davies Hayon
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 09 August 2018

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance

• Author : compiled form Wikipedia entries and published by Dr Googelberg
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 07 February 2023

• Author : Tamara Sonn
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 28 May 2021

Orientalism is the term applied to scholarship that reduces Islam and Muslims to stereotypes of ignorance and violence in need of foreign control. It has been used to rationalize Europe's colonial domination of most of the Muslim world and continued American-led interventions in the post-colonial period. In the past 30 years it has been represented by claims that a monolithic Islam and equally monolithic West are distinct civilizations, sharing nothing in common and, indeed, involved in an inevitable "clash" from which

• Author : Hamid Hadi M.D
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 31 March 2016

Afghanistans Experiences is a sweeping analysis of the historic events and interplay between politics, religion, and terrorism in Afghanistan, the southeastern region of the country, and beyond. The author has vividly explained the origin and the rise of Taliban to powerone of the most important sources of turmoil in contemporary time. Thus, one can perceive how the dynamics of the sinister politics, religious extremism, and terrorism has culminated in avoidable brutal wars and human tragedies. Hamid Hadi has vividly described

• Author : Zulfiqar Ali Shah
• Publisher : Claritas Books
• Release : 07 February 2023

Jesus was a product of Semitic monotheism, moral law, piety and humility. His kingdom was the other worldly. His ethical monotheism was transformed by the Roman Empire and mythology. The supernatural, Trinitarian and miraculous Roman Christianity transitioned into unintelligible dogmas, the abolition of law, moral laxity, this worldly kingdom and divine right absolutism. Natural theology, law, cosmology and politics were all compromised. Religious freedom was barred, and persecutions were normalised. Latin Christendom was a persecutory society. Islam was an intellectual

• Author : William J. Federer
• Publisher : Amerisearch Incorporated
• Release : 01 January 2007

Presents a history of Islam and the Qur®an and its impact on world history and events, including the relationship between Islamic countries and the United States.

• Author : Asma Afsaruddin
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 03 March 2022

The word jihad is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as

• Author : David Lowe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 09 March 2018

Terrorism: Law and Policy provides a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of issues related to terrorist activity. Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book takes a comparative approach to the law related to terrorism in a number of states, mainly those in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Beginning with an examination of the background to various currently active terrorist groups, the book focuses on those groups which are currently active and which pose a threat to security, especially

• Author : David Lowe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 April 2022

Terrorism, Law and Policy: A Comparative Study is a textbook offering a comparative study of the terrorism-related legislation, policy and practice introduced from international governmental bodies such as the UN and the European Union, and individual states, with a focus on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US. It offers a uniquely legal perspective on key themes relating to terrorism and security. This new edition is brought fully up to date with the ever-changing developments in terrorist activity,

• Author : James R. White
• Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
• Release : 01 May 2013

A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest-Growing Religions What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street. Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R. White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other important topics. White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of

• Author : John L. Esposito
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 01 November 2002

Uses a question and answer format to present information on topics including faith and practice, Islam and other religions, customs and culture, and Muslims in the West.