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New book, by: Arno Tausch (Innsbruck Univ. Innsbruck, Austria)
Book Description:
This book is based on the quantitative, multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data from more than 80 countries around the globe on the political and social values of the world’s Muslim communities by international comparison. Global Muslims and also the Muslim communities in Western [...]
New Book, by : Arno Tausch (Innsbruck University)
Book Description:
Titanic 2010 is around the corner: Is Eastern Europe really catching up with the West, and is the enlarged and transformed Europe really on its way to become, by 2010, the most competitive region in the world economy?
Starting from the seven “cardinal sins” of the transformation process, [...]
TRANSLATED BY
SIR FRANK MARZIALS
POWERFUL and rich as English literature is, it has little to place in line against the superb array of French memoirs.
Englishmen enough have done great things, or taken part in the doing of them, or seen them done ; but only a scanty few have been moved to write even fewer [...]
STEVEN RUNCIMAN
In this volume I have attempted to tell the story of the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the reconquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. It is a story that has been told before by European writers, notably with German thoroughness by Rohricht and with French elegance [...]
Arabs and Young Turks
Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918
Hasan Kayalı
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · London
Excerpts
3. The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910 –1911
The army’s successful suppression of the counterrev olution of April 1909 arrested both the anticonstitutionalist (pro-Hamidian) and the Liberal (decentralist) opposition to the CUP and left the Committee, [...]
The Political Economy of World Wars I and II
Excerpts from:
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
Steven Heydemann, Berkeley: University of California Press
2. Guns, Gold, and Grain
War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan
Tariq Tell
In 1924, a “commentator on Middle Eastern affairs” who wrote under the pseudonym Xenophon, remarked that “of all the [...]
Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
David B. Edwards
Berkeley University of California Press
Excerpts: Part III The Islamic Jihad
6. Muslim Youth
Qazi Amin (courtesy of Qazi Amin).
Qazi Amin speaking at the dedication of a new high school, Kot, Ningrahar, post-1989 (courtesy of Qazi Amin).
The development of an Islamic movement in a country depends on the [...]
Prof. Hamed A. Ead Based on the book Introduction to the History of Science
by George Sarton
George Sarton’s Tribute to Muslim Scientists in the “Introduction to the History of Science”:
“It will suffice here to evoke a few glorious names without contemporary equivalents in the West: Jabir ibn Haiyan, al-Kindi, al-Khwarizmi, al-Fargani, al-Razi, Thabit ibn Qurra, [...]
Edited and translated by
Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin
Preface
The genesis of this book lies with Norman Calder, from shortly before he died in 1998.
In 1997 Norman had been approached by a publisher to put together a book of readings
on Islam. While neither a full prospectus nor a contract for the work had [...]
Author: Barry Rubin
This book provides a history and analysis of political events in the Persian Gulf since the Iranian revolution as well as an analysis of U.S. policy. The purpose of this book was to provide an explanation of how the Persian Gulf area had developed into an area of such importance and turmoil. [...]
To S.A.
I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.
Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near
and saw you waiting:
When you smiled, and [...]
L.Carl Brown
Introduction:
A few years ago pundits and politicians discovered Islam—yet again. This
sister religion of Judaism and Christianity was suddenly seen to determine
the politics of the more than one billion Muslims in this world. Indeed,
Islam, it was believed, prescribed a particular form of politics: secularism, or
the separation of din (religion) from dawla (state), was inconceivable. Nor
could [...]
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