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Muslims: integration or separatism?
Down the many centuries, Muslims have seen themselves inhabiting the Dar al-Islam, and in this exclusive House of Islam they are to have their way in all matters great and small. Conquest delivered into their hands the unbelievers of many lands, and these were offered terms: death for the recalcitrant, and for the rest either conversion to Islam, or the status of dhimmi, that is to say, they were deprived of the rights of Muslims and subjected to special taxation, inferiority in law courts, restrictions on worship, residence and dress, and other social disadvantages.
Persians, Berbers, and Kurds were among those choosing to convert, so that today they are almost ...
- Islam: Past, Present and Future.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Willimon, William H. August 12, 2008 700+ words
Islam: Past, Present and Future. By Hans Kung...tenets of the Islamic faith" and that "Islam is peace." On what basis did Bush make...who isn't a Muslim, know something about Islam those Muslims didn't? For centuries the...
- Political Islam.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Najjar, Fauzi M. April 1, 1994 700+ words
...political perspective to the movement known as political Islam (al-islam al-siyusi), a term preferred by the editors to the...into six general groupings. The first, "political Islam viewed across time," consists of "The Golden Age...
- Discovering Islam.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 18, 1988 700+ words
Disccovering Islam. By Akbar S. Ahmed. RKP; 251 pages; 25 [British pounds] and $55 ISLAM has a bad reputation. The Koran urges tolerance...attributes such as truth, justice and mercy. Yet Islam is not at bay; it seems to be enjoying a big...
- Political Islam: image and reality.
- Magazine article from: World Policy Journal Ayoob, Mohammed September 22, 2004 700+ words
...much of the discussion in the West regarding political Islam over the last decade and a half--especially since 9/11. These are: one, that political Islam, like Islam itself, is monolithic; two, that political Islam...
- Islam and the prayer economy: history and authority in a Malian town.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Kresse, Kai September 1, 2007 700+ words
SOARES, BENJAMIN F. Islam and the prayer economy: history and authority...contribution to the anthropological study of Islam, which over the last two decades, has...colonial Muslim world. The anthropology of Islam has been shaped in dialogue with other...
- Islam's ambassador to the West. (The Last Word).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Jemima Khan October 1, 2002 700+ words
...challenge, that of taking on the role of Islam's ambassador to the West. In almost...charity for Afghan refugees. At this time Islam needs all the goodwill ambassadors and...second body blow to the public image of Islam. The fact that women were denied education...
- Islam: An Introduction for Christians.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vila, David H. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...Augsburg, 1994 (rev. of Was jeder vom Islam wissen muss [Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus...Temple University, and an introduction to Islam with a study guide: These quite different...academic and often theological treatments of Islam with stories of real Muslims who are struggling...
- Islam and the Dinka of the southern Sudan from the pre-colonial period to...
- Journal of Asian and African Studies Beswick, S.F. July 1, 1994 700+ words
...address the centuries-old resistance of Islam by the Dinka.(1) It has been argued...barriers inhibiting the penetration of Islam and allowing only a slender link with the...principal explanation for rejection of Islam by the Southern Sudanese.(3) During...