Encore -- :(Avicenna 980 1037 Kit amacr b al k x0323 an umacr n f imacr x02bc l t x0323 ibb)

Kit¿b ¿uy¿n al-anb¿¿ f¿ ¿abaq¿t al-a¿ibb¿¿

Ibn Ab¿ U¿aybi¿ah, A¿mad ibn al-Q¿sim, d. 1269 or 70.;Najj¿r, ¿¿mir.;Ibn Ab...

Book | Kit¿b ¿uy¿n al-anb¿¿ f¿ ¿abaq¿t al-a¿ibb¿¿; 01/01/2001 Please log in to see more details

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Explicit cruelty, implicit compassion: Judaism, forced conversions and the genealogy of the Banu Rushd.

Ruano, Delfina Serrano

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p217-233, 17p Please log in to see more details

In his seminal biography of Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd, better known in the Latin West as Aver... more

Explicit cruelty, implicit compassion: Judaism, forced conversions and the genealogy of the Banu Rushd.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p217-233, 17p

In his seminal biography of Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd, better known in the Latin West as Averroes (d. 1126 CE), Dominique Urvoy referred to the “Jewish” symbolism of Averroes' confinement in Lucena, a city in today's Spanish province of Cordoba. In this regard, Urvoy quoted the Maghribian historian ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrakushī, according to whom the choice of Lucena was due to a rumour that Averroes had Jewish ancestors and that his family was not rooted in any Arab tribe of al-Andalus. Urvoy does not further explore the connection between Averroes' confinement in Lucena and his alleged Jewish ancestry, nor does he make any statement on the credibility of the rumour. This paper revisits the question of Averroes' alleged Jewish ancestry and its consequences in the light of new evidence, which I discuss in the context of the Almohads' treatment of the Jews who lived in their dominions under the status of dhimmīs or tributaries. I argue that the Almohads' treatment of the Jews and the alleged insincerity of their conversions to Islam seem to have met an unexpected target in the person of Averroes, the most important Muslim intellectual of that period. To develop this argument, I will carry out a careful examination of Averroes' genealogical chain as it is presented by a number of contemporary and non-contemporary biographers of his grandfather, Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d. 1126 CE). As I show in section two, there is a chronological incoherence between the genealogical chains which might add credit to the claim that Averroes had Jewish ancestors. This claim becomes explicit in the rumour voiced by Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrakushī and it is implicit in the choice of Lucena as the location of his confinement. Subsequently and after reviewing the reasons put forward by different scholars to explain Averroes' falling into disgrace and the role that Averroes' alleged Judaism might have played in his confinement in Lucena, I focus on some Muslim historians' strategies to show him compassion, to compensate him for his suffering and to return him his stolen honour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

LUCENA (Spain) - SPAIN - IBERIAN Peninsula - CRUELTY - COMPASSION - JUDAISM - CONVERSION (Religion) - GENEALOGY

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Yemen's last Zaydī Imam: the shabab al-muʾmin, the Malazim, and 'ḥizb allah' in the thought of Ḥusayn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥuthī.

Lux, Abdullah

Academic Journal | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2009, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p369-434, 66p, 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart Please log in to see more details

Excerpted from the manuscript of a forthcoming book project, this article provides ess... more

Yemen's last Zaydī Imam: the shabab al-muʾmin, the Malazim, and 'ḥizb allah' in the thought of Ḥusayn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥuthī.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2009, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p369-434, 66p, 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart

Excerpted from the manuscript of a forthcoming book project, this article provides essential English-language source material on Ḥusayn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥuthī and an alternative framework to that of the mainstream media for exploring what are likely the genuine causes and nature of the wars against Ṣaʿdah, Yemen, undertaken with backing and technical assistance from the United States, if not direct complicity in the name of then President George W. Bush's administration's 'war on terror'. In addition to shedding light on the voluminous Malazim of Ḥusayn Badr al-Dīn and providing analysis of its various influences including Khomeini and Lebanon's Ḥizb Allah, while at the same time demonstrating a lack of evidence for direct support by either Ḥizb Allah or Iran, the article examines the distinct Jarudī Zaydī nature of the only contemporary Zaydī political discourse and formulation of its kind, which is distinct from Twelver Shīʿism and antithetical to the 'wilayat al-faqīh' in Iran. The article examines the origins of the Lebanese group known as al-Shabab al-Muʾmin that would later evolve into Ḥizb Allah and the history of Yemen's Tanẓīm al-Shabab al-Muʾmin from which al-Ḥuthī would draw his core group of supporters, and it aims to decipher the nature of the relation between al-Ḥuthī's thought and Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran as well as its grounding in the Jarudī Zaydī sect and the Zaydīyah at large. The article includes excerpts from an interview with Ayatollah Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallah on the subject, new statements from the Office of ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥuthī in Ṣaʿdah, and in-depth analysis of the Malazim with exhaustive citations in translation - all never before published - all of which provide essential reading for understanding the objective historical conditions as well as the political, cultural, tribal, ideological, and sectarian dimensions of the wars against Ṣaʿdah. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

YEMEN (Republic) - IRAN - NASR Allah, Hasan, 1960- - HIZB Allah fi al-Iraq - FADL Allah, Muhammad Husayn, 1935-2010 - IRANIAN Revolution, 1979 - INTERNATIONAL relations

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Ethnic disaffection and dynastic legitimacy in the early Almohad period: Ibn Tumart's translatio studii et imperii.

Sánchez, Ignacio

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p175-193, 19p Please log in to see more details

The Almohads, who presented themselves as a minority of true believers, provide a para... more

Ethnic disaffection and dynastic legitimacy in the early Almohad period: Ibn Tumart's translatio studii et imperii.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p175-193, 19p

The Almohads, who presented themselves as a minority of true believers, provide a paradigmatic case of religious elitism. The aim of this article is to study the representation of Almohad elitism and the myth of Ibn Tumart in contrast with the legitimizing narrative used by previous North African movements. In the first section, I briefly survey the Berber movements in North Africa and the creation of new dynasties of Berber origin or supported by Berbers. In the second, I analyse the relationship of the religious discourse adopted by these states to the dialectic between Arabs and non-Arabs, and will address the historical evolution of this narrative, focusing mainly on those expressions of ethnicity that might be connected with religious claims whereby the Berbers are represented as a spiritual minority. The third and final part examines the case of Ibn Tumart and Almohad religious elitism in the light of this literary tradition, arguing that the exaltation of the figure of Ibn Tumart as the Mahdī, and the depiction of the Almohad elites as his supporters, are deeply rooted in the tradition that represents the Berbers as the new supporters of Islam [anṣar]. The appropriation and use of this narrative, however, is based on a geographical - rather than ethnic - opposition, and can be analysed as an Almohad variation of the theme of translatio studii et imperii which reflects a change of religious and intellectual legitimacy from the Mashriq to the Maghrib. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

NORTH Africa - ALMOHADES - RELIGIOUS studies - MUSLIMS - GROUP identity - ETHNIC groups - ISLAM - MULTICULTURALISM

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

A contextual reading of Sharīʿa in the Qurʾan: implications for contemporary Western societies.

Mallech, S. A.

Academic Journal | Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p1-13, 13p Please log in to see more details

This article analyses the use of the term sharīʿa in the Qurʾan to show that it should... more

A contextual reading of Sharīʿa in the Qurʾan: implications for contemporary Western societies.

Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p1-13, 13p

This article analyses the use of the term sharīʿa in the Qurʾan to show that it should be understood to have a much broader meaning than “way” or “path”, which is the way it is usually understood. The term sharīʿa occurs only once in the text of the Qurʾan. A close reading of the passage in which it occurs demonstrates first, that sharīʿa is being used interchangeably with the word kitab and can thus be thought of as synonymous with qurʾan, and second, that the context in which the term sharīʿa is used is in opposition to other communities - in particular banī israʾīl, which it is argued includes Jews and Christians. This context has significant resonance for Muslims, as well as others, living in contemporary Western societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

ISLAMIC law - QUR'AN hermeneutics - INTERFAITH relations - JEWISH-Muslim relations - CHRISTIAN-Islam relations

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Christian participation in Almohad armies and personal guards.

Gutiérrez, Eva Lapiedra

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p235-250, 16p Please log in to see more details

This article aims to explain the importance of Christian slaves or ex-slaves in the ar... more

Christian participation in Almohad armies and personal guards.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p235-250, 16p

This article aims to explain the importance of Christian slaves or ex-slaves in the army and personal guard of the Almohads. Numerous studies posit that, at the time of the Almohads, Christian troops were almost exclusively mercenaries. However, a comparative study between the Almohads and other Maghrebi dynasties, grounded in terminology, reveals the unmistakable presence in the Almohad forces of soldiers, guards and advisors who were either Christians or of Christian origin and had originally been captives or slaves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

MAGHREB (Africa, North) - NORTH Africa - ARAB Maghreb Union - CHRISTIANS - ARMIES - COMPARATIVE studies

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Kit¿b f¿ ¿ibb al-mash¿¿ikh wa-¿if¿ ¿i¿¿atihim
¿ibb al-mash¿¿ikh wa-¿if¿ ¿i¿¿atihim

Ibn al-Jazz¿r.;J¿z¿, al-R¿¿¿.;¿Asl¿, F¿r¿q.;Ibn al-Jazz¿r.;J¿z¿, al-R¿¿¿.;¿...

Book | Kit¿b f¿ ¿ibb al-mash¿¿ikh wa-¿if¿ ¿i¿¿atihim; 01/01/2009 Please log in to see more details

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Almohad tawḥīd and its implications for religious difference.

Bennison, Amira K.

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p195-216, 22p Please log in to see more details

The objective of this article is to approach the matter of the Almohad doctrine of taw... more

Almohad tawḥīd and its implications for religious difference.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p195-216, 22p

The objective of this article is to approach the matter of the Almohad doctrine of tawḥīd [divine unity, monotheism] from the perspective of its implications for the toleration of religious difference both within Islam and between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the other monotheistic confessions practised in the Maghrib and al-Andalus. To this end, it explores first the issue of the sources themselves upon which our understanding of the Almohad era is predicated and the way in which their uncritical use or selective interpretation may skew our notions of this period. Secondly, it assesses the concept of tawḥīd presented in our main source of information about Almohad doctrines, the so-called Aʿazzu ma yuṭlabu compilation attributed to Ibn Tumart, the movement's founder, in an attempt to understand how the Almohads viewed the community of believers and how they understood the relationship between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The third and final part of the article moves to the issue of praxis and how the Almohads translated abstract doctrines and polemical statements into action during their conquest of the Maghrib and al-Andalus, which occurred primarily during the reign of Ibn Tumart's successor, the caliph ʿAbd al-Muʾmin (r. c. 1130-63). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

ALMOHADES - JUDAISM - CHRISTIANS - ISLAM - MUSLIMS - CHRISTIANITY

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

The nature of the Almohad rulers' treatment of the Jews.

Corcos, David

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p259-285, 27p Please log in to see more details

A reprint of the article " The nature of the Almohad rulers' treatment of the Jews," b... more

The nature of the Almohad rulers' treatment of the Jews.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p259-285, 27p

A reprint of the article " The nature of the Almohad rulers' treatment of the Jews," by David Corcos, which appeared in the journal "Zion" in 1967. It discusses the nature of treatment of Almohad rulers to Jews. It offers a detailed analysis of the Almohads' treatment of non- Muslims which prefigures many of the arguments explored in the issue as a whole.

Subject terms:

PUBLISHED reprints - ALMOHADES - JEWS - MUSLIMS - ISLAM

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Conversion, ancestry and universal religion: the case of the Almohads in the Islamic West (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries).

Fierro, Maribel

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p155-173, 19p Please log in to see more details

The forced conversion of Jews and Christians stands out among the most puzzling polici... more

Conversion, ancestry and universal religion: the case of the Almohads in the Islamic West (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries).

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p155-173, 19p

The forced conversion of Jews and Christians stands out among the most puzzling policies implemented at the beginning of the Almohad revolutionary movement. In this article, the reasons behind such decision are reviewed again1 and then the focus is moved to its implications. Two aspects are dealt with: the Almohads' suspicions about the faith of the forced converts, giving rise to discriminatory policies against them; and Almohad conceptions of a universal religion that advance our understanding of that “dream of conversion” which was such a prominent feature in the Mediterranean during the sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

CONVERSION (Religion) - RELIGIOUS studies - CHRISTIANS - ISLAM - MUSLIMS - CHRISTIANITY - JEWS - JUDAISM

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Religious minorities under the Almohads: an introduction.

Bennison, Amira K.;Gallego, Maria Angeles

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p143-154, 12p Please log in to see more details

An introduction to the journal is presented in which discusses an article religious mi... more

Religious minorities under the Almohads: an introduction.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p143-154, 12p

An introduction to the journal is presented in which discusses an article religious minorities, an article on eleventh- and twelfth-century Maghribi empires, and fanaticism or idealism the Almoravid position on Almohads.

Subject terms:

RELIGIOUS minorities - ALMOHADES

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Citizenship: an Islamic perspective.

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim

Academic Journal | Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p121-153, 33p Please log in to see more details

Citizenship in its contemporary context has developed in tandem with the expansive rol... more

Citizenship: an Islamic perspective.

Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p121-153, 33p

Citizenship in its contemporary context has developed in tandem with the expansive role and functions of the nation state. The Islamic notions of belonging to a political community, territory, and a system of rule are all present in the source data of the Qurʾan and hadith. Yet they remain undeveloped and also burdened with accretional jurisprudence that has developed around the notions of dar al-Islam and dar al-ḥarb (abode of Islam, and abode of war respectively). The main purpose of this essay is to contextualise the Islamic notion of citizenship with its contemporary context, while also attempting to strip the authoritative guidelines of Islam from its archaic concepts and additions that on the whole tend to be less than helpful. This is one side of the picture I present. In another, yet quite fundamental sense, the rules of fiqh on residence and domicile within the wider dar al-Islam are far less restrictive than the Immigration and citizenship laws of the present-day Muslim countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

ISLAM - RELIGION & state - MUSLIMS - CITIZENSHIP - EMIGRATION & immigration - RELIGIONS

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

al-¿¿n¿n fi¿l ¿ibb

Avicenna, 980-1037.;Avicenna, 980-1037.

Book | al-¿¿n¿n fi¿l ¿ibb; 01/01/1970 Please log in to see more details

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Islam and democracy.

Howeidy, Fahmy

Academic Journal | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2010, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p297-333, 37p Please log in to see more details

This paper reviews how the civilizational discourse of Islam differs from that of demo... more

Islam and democracy.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2010, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p297-333, 37p

This paper reviews how the civilizational discourse of Islam differs from that of democracy but doesn't necessarily mean that it contradicts it. Knowing that this juxtaposition promotes diversity and distinction, this paper elucidates the factors of ambiguity that surround this religion and system in order to uncover the real dimension of their distinction. The paper is organized as follows: first, it presents seven characteristics of the Islamic state. Next, it discusses the importance of consultation (al-shura) and the necessity of questioning the rulers in Islam. Third, the article answers the question “Where does democracy correspond to Islam and where does it differ?”. Several prominent opinions are examined in the fourth part, before displaying the main positions from the 1980s, vis-a-vis democracy, in part five. Part six exhibits the fatwas of al-Qaradawi. At the end of the article, the paper emphasizes the approaches that can be taken towards Islamic ruling (sharīʿah). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

DISCOURSE analysis - DEMOCRACY - ISLAM & politics - ISLAMIC theology - RELIGION & politics - ISLAMIC countries

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Islamic architecture as a reflection of functionalism and interactionism: conceptual origins in culture and sociology.

Al-Qahtany, Hani Mohammad

Academic Journal | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2009, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p435-457, 23p, 12 Black and White Photographs Please log in to see more details

What kind of society does Islamic architecture reflect? What are the basic units and f... more

Islamic architecture as a reflection of functionalism and interactionism: conceptual origins in culture and sociology.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jul2009, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p435-457, 23p, 12 Black and White Photographs

What kind of society does Islamic architecture reflect? What are the basic units and forms of Islamic society associated with Islamic architecture, and what kinds of relationships existed among its individuals? Is Islamic society a 'uniform society' or a 'multi-layered society'? These fundamental questions are at the centre of this study. This paper explores the basic intellectual, social and environmental aspects that have shaped Islamic architecture. It explores these aspects as reflected in the building forms of Muslim societies. Functionalism and interactionism are two major schools of modern sociology. As a social phenomenon, Islamic architecture is examined in the light of these two schools. The urban fabric of the traditional Islamic city as an example of functionalism in architecture is examined with reference to the ruined city of Samarraʾ, in Iraq; and examples of Ottoman architecture are considered as models of interactionism in city planning and architecture. The works of three major figures in contemporary Arab thought, Muḥammad Abed Al-Jabri and ʿAbdullah Al-ʿArawī from Morocco, and Mohammad Al-Anṣarī from Bahrain, are considered in this paper. Their thoughts and views are used as vehicles to test some innate features of Islamic architecture. The influence of language and the desert, two exceptionally important factors that have shaped the culture of Muslim societies and its manifestation in architecture, is also explored. The findings of this paper, although still at a preliminary stage, reiterate the major concepts of the medieval Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, in his Muqaddimah, in an architectural context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

SAMARRA (Iraq) - IRAQ - FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences) - ISLAMIC architecture - ISLAMIC sociology - URBAN planning

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

New directions in the study of medieval Andalusi music.

Reynolds, Dwight F.

Academic Journal | Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jan2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p37-51, 15p Please log in to see more details

The study of medieval Arabo-Andalusian music has recently begun to play a more promine... more

New directions in the study of medieval Andalusi music.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Jan2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p37-51, 15p

The study of medieval Arabo-Andalusian music has recently begun to play a more prominent role in medieval Iberian Studies. New directions have begun to open up and the field is currently moving forward using multiple new approaches. Important medieval texts, previously thought lost, have surfaced in recent decades creating a new body of evidence for scholars to interpret. In addition, a number of already well-known texts are now being re-evaluated from a musicological, rather than a purely literary, standpoint and are revealing significant new insights about the musical cultures of medieval Iberia. Painstaking research in a variety of different archives and collections has begun to offer a more detailed sense of the context of medieval musical performances, the lives of performers, their economic and social status, and so forth. And comparative studies across historical time periods and regional traditions are providing radical new interpretations of the history of certain musical structures, modes of transmission, and individual repertories. The present survey offers an overview of recently published research in the field of medieval Arabo-Andalusian music and sketches out a variety of new lines of research that are currently, or should be, followed by future scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

MUSIC education - MUSIC & society - MUSICAL performance - MUSIC history - SOCIAL groups - SOCIAL status

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

David Trotter (ed.), Albucasis: Traitier de Cyrurgie. Edition de la traduction en ancien francais de la Chirurgie d'Ab&umacr; 'l Q&amacr; sim Halaf Ibn 'Abb&amacr;...

Buridant, Claude

Academic Journal | Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie (ZrP). Sept, 2008, Vol. 124 Issue 3, p558, 7 p. Please log in to see more details

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Mauritanian-Israeli relations: from normalization to freeze to suspension.

al-Kurwy, Mahmood;Abbas, Faysal Shalal

Academic Journal | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jan2011, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p30-50, 21p Please log in to see more details

This article explores the background to normalization of Mauritanian-Israeli relations... more

Mauritanian-Israeli relations: from normalization to freeze to suspension.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jan2011, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p30-50, 21p

This article explores the background to normalization of Mauritanian-Israeli relations in depth and detail and demonstrates why the case of Mauritania was unique both for Mauritanians, who sought to replace their erstwhile French allies, as well as for the Israelis - who viewed it as one of the first and most important pillars of their Africa policy and who invested significantly throughout all sectors of the economy. Normalization of Mauritanian-Israeli relations initially began secretly during the regime of President Muʿawiyah Aḥmad Ould al-Ṭayaʿ and aside from the high-level political and diplomatic contacts, transpired in many different spheres from business, to medicine, to agriculture, telecommunications and lithium extraction and prospecting. The opening of respective embassies in both countries and high-profile visits brought about tensions in Mauritania among the general populace which was never comfortable with diplomatic or trade relations with Israel and which eventually factored in precipitating a coup. Mauritania eventually froze diplomatic relations and finally cut them off after Israeli aggression against Gaza during 'Operation Cast Lead' took public sentiment to the titration point. While Mauritania went on to develop relations with Iran, many of the commercial and industrial ties to Israeli corporations still persist if nothing more than for the reason that Israeli penetration of Mauritanian markets and various sectors was (and to a considerable degree still remains) significant. The future situation will likely be determined as a result of the dynamic and interplay of forces discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

MAURITANIA - ISRAEL - INTERNATIONAL relations

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Beyond Jihad: the New Thought of the Gamāʿa Islāmiyya.

Jackson, Sherman A.

Academic Journal | Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p52-69, 18p Please log in to see more details

The last few decades have led to a veritable global conflation between “Islamic moveme... more

Beyond Jihad: the New Thought of the Gamāʿa Islāmiyya.

Journal of Islamic Law 2009, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p52-69, 18p

The last few decades have led to a veritable global conflation between “Islamic movement” and violence. Unnoticed in all of this has been an ideological evolution within certain Islamist circles themselves. One such instance is that of the notorious Gamaʿa Islamiyya of Egypt, which in 1997 began a campaign not only to renounce political violence per se but to declare such violence to be Islamically improper and to present an Islamically reasoned argument to this effect. This article traces this evolution in the Gamaʿa's thinking and exams key aspects of its new ideological stand, including its critique of contemporary jihadism overall, not least of which the ideological outlook of al-Qaʿida [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

QAIDA (Organization) - ISLAMIC law - JIHAD - RELIGION - VIOLENCE - ISLAMIC fundamentalism - ISLAM

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Grundlegendes zu al-Azd&imacr; s Fut&umacr; a[cedilla][yen] aš -Š &amacr; m

Scheiner, Jens J.

Academic Journal | Der Islam. Dec, 2008, Vol. 84 Issue 1, p1, 16 p. Please log in to see more details

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Features of the Palestinian political elite before and after the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority.

Darraj, Faisal

Review | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Apr2010, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p226-229, 4p Please log in to see more details

The article reviews the book "Features of the Palestinian Political Elite Before and A... more

Features of the Palestinian political elite before and after the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Apr2010, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p226-229, 4p

The article reviews the book "Features of the Palestinian Political Elite Before and After the Establishment of the Palestinian National Authority."

Subject terms:

FEATURES of the Palestinian Political Elite Before & After the Establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (Book) - ELITE (Social sciences) - NONFICTION

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Draining the sources of terrorism in Islamic culture.

Hafez, Ziad

Review | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Apr2009, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p324-327, 4p Please log in to see more details

The article reviews the book "Draining the Sources of Terrorism in Islamic Culture," b... more

Draining the sources of terrorism in Islamic culture.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Apr2009, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p324-327, 4p

The article reviews the book "Draining the Sources of Terrorism in Islamic Culture," by Muhammad al-Shahrur.

Subject terms:

DRAINING the Sources of Terrorism in Islamic Culture (Book) - AL-Shahrur, Muhammad - TERRORISM - NONFICTION

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Saudi youth: the illusion of transnational freedom.

Yamani, Mai

Academic Journal | Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jan2010, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p7-20, 14p Please log in to see more details

The paper deals with the matter of Saudi youth as this correlates to increasing social... more

Saudi youth: the illusion of transnational freedom.

Contemporary Arab Affairs; Jan2010, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p7-20, 14p

The paper deals with the matter of Saudi youth as this correlates to increasing social problems of unemployment and sometimes antithetical cultural currents in conjunction with the spread of alternative media and a burgeoning public 'space' provided by the Internet. A third of the Kingdom's population is now under the age of 14, and how the youth are alternatively absorbed into the system or marginalized depends upon not only simple economic factors, but also tribal and sectarian affiliation which is downplayed or masked by the regime. The under-represented among average Ḥijazi youth who do not sense affiliation with the Wahhabi trends of the Najd as well as minority sects including Shīʿah in the Eastern Province and Ismaʿīlis is in the ʿAsīr are increasingly coming to identify with transnational groups outside the Kingdom, and whether the ruling family - which itself is facing a potential crisis of succession - can successfully maintain national unity which would entail genuine reform and a reduction in the role of Wahhabi elements as well as economic reform remains to be seen. The traditional strategies that have relied on garnering the loyalty of the population through subsidies of electricity and such like have worn thin, as has the supposition that the Al Saʿud as ostensibly the ulī al-amr and custodians of the two Holy Shrines of Mecca and Medina ought to receive unquestioning loyalty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

SAUDI Arabia - INTERNET - UNEMPLOYMENT - CENSORSHIP - WAHHABIYAH - CIVIL society

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Untitled.

Report | Federal Court Forms (South Carolina). 2016, p1-1144. 1144p. Please log in to see more details

more

Untitled.

Federal Court Forms (South Carolina). 2016, p1-1144. 1144p.

Subject terms:

Captions (Law) - Justice administration - South Carolina

Content provider:

Legal Information Source

PDF

Additional actions:

Shahada versus terror in contemporary Islamic legal thought: the problem of suicide bombers.

Al-Atawneh, Muhammad

Academic Journal | Journal of Islamic Law 2008, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p18-29, 12p Please log in to see more details

The issue of suicide bombings, in which Muslim youngsters are often involved, recently... more

Shahada versus terror in contemporary Islamic legal thought: the problem of suicide bombers.

Journal of Islamic Law 2008, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p18-29, 12p

The issue of suicide bombings, in which Muslim youngsters are often involved, recently raised some fundamental questions on the extent that such operations accommodate Islamic ethics and morals of jihad. One of the most acute religio-legal queries placed on the table of Muslim jurists and religious scholars has been whether suicide bombers are martyrs (shuhadaʾ, sin. shahīd) who have earned eternal bless in the next world, or simply killers who will suffer the fire of hell. This paper explores the means by which contemporary Muslim scholars and jurists distinguish between these two opposing views. An analysis of the relevant treatises of jurists - mainly those related to 9 /11 and Palestinian suicide bombers - indicates that for most contemporary Muslim jurists, defensive jihad is a key precondition for endorsing martyrdom. That is to say that while a Muslim who blows himself up defending his land, property, or family is likely to be determined a shahīd, others whose operations do not meet such preconditions are liable to be simply determined killers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject terms:

BOMBINGS - MILITARY airplanes - SUICIDE - INTERNATIONAL relations - INTELLECTUALS

Content provider:

Complementary Index

Check for Full Text

Additional actions:

Selecting or deselecting a search filter will reload your page.

Refine by:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Subject terms:

Content provider:

more

Recent Searches

Search Tools

Library Links