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What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think: An Answer to a Recent Gallup Study, Based on the “World Values Survey”

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 [...] [...]

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Titanic 2010? The European Union and its Failed Lisbon Strategy

New Book, by : Arno Tausch (Innsbruck University)

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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, described by Harvard Professor Janos Kornai. it is evident that the real income of a significant proportion of the population has remained unchanged,or even deteriorated in Eastern Europe, that a dramatic ‘restructuring’ has taken place in the area of income distribution, that the employment rate has significantly declined, public security deteriorating, corruption has not ended, and that there are disorders in the political arena with tax policies favoring the rich. Continue reading Titanic 2010? The European Union and its Failed Lisbon Strategy

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MEMOIRS OF THE CRUSADES

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 [...] [...]

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A History of the Crusades

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 [...] [...]

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Arabs and Young Turks

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, [...] [...]

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War, State, and Markets in the Middle East

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 [...] [...]

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Before Taliban

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 [...] [...]

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History of Islamic Science

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, [...] [...]

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Classical Islam: a source of religious literature

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 [...] [...]

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Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East

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. [...] [...]

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T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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 [...] [...]

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Religion and State: The Muslim Approach To Politics

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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