[PDF] Western Imperialism Menaces Muslims eBook

Author : Farid Younos
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1434321681

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Amid the wealth, luxury and immorality of Las Vegas is a large community of Christians. As his last great architectural endeavor, millionaire David Sinclair constructs a peculiar mega resort bordering the Las Vegas strip. In a city where many locals and visitors have larger-than-life appetites for strong drink, wild parties and easy sex, the Mizbeach Hotel will be a well of living water in the desert. A second-stringer reporter with first-class talent, Andrea Leggett is determine to make it to a giant network. Blinded to everything but getting her big break, Andrea is determine to land an exclusive interview with the reclusive David Sinclair. Before Andrea is able to put her plan into action, the providential hand of God begins to moves. Andrea encounters the mysterious Sam Spirit; a man who appears to know her deepest hurts, pains and need. Unknown to Andrea, their emotional meeting was not by chance, nor would it be their last. As Andrea arrives to the Mizbeach Hotel she is paralyzed by the first in a series of visions. While the exclusive is still on her agenda, Andrea finds herself troubled by the reoccurring and unexplained visions. Caroline Sinclair, daughter of Mr. Sinclair, is introduced to Andrea and the second stringer reporter life's takes a drastic change. For the first time, Andrea ponders her spiritual condition. An unexpected tragedy causes Andrea to reside at the Mizbeach. During her stay she discovered The Mizbeach to be a place of sacrifice. It becomes her refuge and her destiny. The Theme of this book is God is at work everywhere. The convicting power of God's spirit moves many from self-centeredness to faith in Jesus Christ.

Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555970281

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*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. A cache of Maryam's letters to her parents in the archives of the New York Public Library sends the acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker on her own odyssey into the labyrinthine heart of twentieth-century Islam. Casting a shadow over these letters is the mysterious figure of Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, both Maryam's adoptive father and the man who laid the intellectual foundations for militant Islam. As she assembles the pieces of a singularly perplexing life, Baker finds herself captive to questions raised by Maryam's journey. Is her story just another bleak chapter in a so-called clash of civilizations? Or does it signify something else entirely? And then there's this: Is the life depicted in Maryam's letters home and in her books an honest reflection of the one she lived? Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is a gripping account of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the cultural conflicts that frustrate mutual understanding.

Author : Mathias Rohe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004281800

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Islamic Law in Past and Present, written by the lawyer and Islamicist Mathias Rohe, is the first comprehensive study for decades on Islamic law, legal theory, reform mechanisms and the application of Islamic law in Islamic countries and the Muslim diaspora. It provides information based on an abundance of Oriental and Western sources regarding family and inheritance law, contract and economic law, penal law, constitutional, administrative and international law. The present situation and ‘law in action’ are highlighted particularly. This includes examples collected during field studies on the application of Islamic law in India, Canada and Germany.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520342127

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"Keddie has rendered a valuable service ... Afghani merits the attention of Western students of the contemporary international scene and the Muslim renaissance since he made the first significant attempt to answer the modern Western challenge to the Muslim world." ---Eastern World "Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897), the well known religious reformer and political activist, led a busy and complex life full of obscure and clandestine ventures. . . . [Keddie] draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources. In part I an attempt is made to provide an accurate biography and a consistent analysis of Afghani. Part II co ntains translations of some of his most important writings. . . Although Afghani was concerned with the wide ranging need for Islamic reform, he devoted most of his life to the more urgent political problems confronting Muslims--problems arising out of their weakness in dealing with the Western Christian powers. Hence the tide of this book. The picture that emerges here confirms Afghani's long standing reputation as a defender of Muslim interests--not against borrowing European advances in science and technology, but against foreign political, economic, or military encroachment."--Middle East journal "Jamal ad-Din was a mysterious figure and most of the mysteries were of his own making . . . it has been left to Professor Keddie to apply the methods of the critical historian to the matter ... This book shows how successful she has been . . . there has emerged for the first time a credible picture of Jamal ad-Din's life . . . The second part contains translations of works by Jamal ad-Din himself, and these are valuable because most of them were written in Persian and have either not been easily available at all or else have been available only in Arabic translation. This is particularly true of the Refutation of the Materialists. "--International journal of Middle East Studies "For the first time a significant collection of the writings of al-Afghani are now available in English, and so, for the first time, this controversial figure has had more life breathed into him."--American Historical Review

Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400097703

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A provocative study of the critical problems that are crippling Europe and causing an increasing anti-Americanism looks at the return of the ethnic hatred, class divisions, and war that previously wreaked havoc on Europe, as well as the rise of such new issues as declining birthrates, growing Islamic fundamentalism, and an unsustainable economic model. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Bradley C. S. Watson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739116128

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In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time--the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the "war on terror." Ranging from the nature of Islam and the West, to ethics and terror, to the western way of warfare, the volume deals thematically with major issues raised by this conflict in a way that no other single-volume does. Contributors bring to bear arguments on the philosophic, political, religious, ethical, and policy dimensions of the war. As the title of the book suggests, this conflict implicates all of Western civilization, demonstrating that this not merely an "American" concern.

Author : Louay M. Safi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1000483541

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The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism. In exploring issues relating to tensions and conflicts around globalization, the book identifies historical patterns of convergence and divergence rooted in the monotheistic traditions, beginning with the ancient Israelites that dominated the Near East during the Axial age, through Islamic civilization, and finally by considering the idealism-realism tensions in modern times. One thing remained constant throughout the various historical stages that preceded our current moment of global convergence: a recurring tension between transcendental idealism and various forms of realism. Transcendental idealism, which prioritize egalitarian and universal values, pushed periodically against the forces of realism that privilege established law and power structure. Equipped with the idealism-realism framework, the book examines the consequences of European realism that justified the imperialistic venture into Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in the name of liberation and liberalization. The ill-conceived strategy has, ironically, engendered the very dysfunctional societies that produce the waves of immigrants in constant motion from the South to the North, simultaneously as it fostered the social hierarchy that transfer external tensions into identity politics within the countries of the North. The book focuses particularly on the role played historically by Islamic rationalism in translating the monotheistic egalitarian outlook into the institutions of religious pluralism, legislative and legal autonomy, and scientific enterprise at the foundation of modern society. It concludes by shedding light on the significance of the Muslim presence in Western cultures as humanity draws slowly but consistently towards what we may come to recognize as the Global Age. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003203360, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Samir Amghar
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 929079710X

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This book analyzes the place of the new Muslim minorities in society within the European Union. The authors explore the root causes of rising tensions and conflict between the new immigrant population and native Europeans over issues of Muslim identity, Islamist doctrines, and Islamophobia. They also provide integration models for the various EU countries and discuss the short- and long-range problems caused by socioeconomic discrimination against Muslims. Contributors include Imane Karich (International Crisis Group, Brussels), Isabelle Rigoni (Paris VIII University), Sara Silvestri (Cambridge University and City University, London), Valeria Amiraux (European University Institute, Florence), Chris Allen (University of Birmingham, UK), Tufyal Choudhury (Durham University, UK), and Bernard Godard (Ministry of Interior, Paris).