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January 15, 2021
Great Muslims of the West   By (author) Muhammad Mojlum Khan The contributions of some extraordinary Muslims of the West in recent history is surprising, revealing and, most importantly, worth celebrating. Muslims have lived in the “West” for ...
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January 15, 2021
A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East By  Erik Skare Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its ...
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January 8, 2021
Ariane Thomas, Timothy Potts Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, was home to the remarkable ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. From the rise of the first cities around 3500 BCE, through the mighty empires of Nineveh and ...
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January 8, 2021
Edited by Allen D. Hertzke What is the status of religious freedom in the world today? What barriers does it face? What are the realistic prospects for improvement, and why does this matter? The Future of Religious Freedom addresses these critical ...
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December 1, 2020
By Charles Tieszen This book offers a fresh appraisal of Muhammad that considers the widest possible history of the ways in which Christians have assessed his prophethood. To medieval Christian communities, Muhammad-the leader of a religious and political community ...
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December 1, 2020
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh Eighteen months after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds ...
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November 9, 2020
Glenn E Robinson Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new form of jihadism emerged—global jihad—turning to ...
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November 9, 2020
by John Tolan   In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed ...
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September 30, 2020
By: Sean R. Roberts Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this ...
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September 30, 2020
By Thomas Hegghammer, Universitetet Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 ...
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