Middle East Religions category: 3324 books
Eclipse of the Sunnis
Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive region. From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, Deborah Amos follows the impact of one of the great migrations of modern times.
The history of the Middle...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and 'parables in action' illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, this material stresses the experimental rather than the theoretical...
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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Oasis n. 22, The Cross and the Black Flag
December 2015 (English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Fundamentalist violence is raging in the lands where Christianity was born. What Middle East would it be without any Christians? OASIS Year XI - n. 22 - December 2015 -- Eastern Christians: Witnesses to Faith and Creators of Culture - Martino Diez -- Three Lessons from the Martyrs - Cardinal Angelo...
Pre-Islamic Middle East and its Islamic Calling
A History of the Islamic World, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book is the first in a series of short eBooks, called ‘A History of the Islamic World’. The aim is to provide an illustrated, easy to read and accessible overview of the history of the world, as seen in the eyes of Muslims and Islam. The series of eBooks starts with this volume 1, starting...
The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their...
The Modern Middle East, Third Edition
A Political History since the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region.
Islamism
What it Means for the Middle East and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region’s primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a...
Orthodoxy and Islam
Theology and Muslim–Christian Relations in Modern Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries by the Apostles. However, despite sharing the same ancestry, Muslims and Christians have been living in a challenging symbiotic co-existence for more than...
Zarathustra
Myth - Message - History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
ZARATHUSTRA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST historical personalities known to us, and he forever shifted the course of civilization. Nevertheless, publications about him are fragmented and written for specialized academics only, making them incomprehensible to the general public. This book, for the first time,...
by Danielle Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate one of the world's great religions and the Islamic way of life• to understand what it means to follow the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad — ‘the Messenger of God'• to recognize Islam's key practices and traditional beliefs• to avoid faux pas in...
Cradle of Islam
The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
In 1932 the Al Saud family incorporated the Kingdom of the Hijaz into the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Hijazis became a people without a country of their own, who nonetheless have since retained a separate cultural consciousness. Cradle of Islam focuses on contemporary Hijazi life and culture,...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read by children, by scientists and scholars, and by followers of philosophy. Idries Shah assembled this collection of Nasrudin's trials and tribulations from ancient manuscripts and oral literature, from...
by Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
**“The many facets of Middle Eastern history and politics are admirably represented in this far-ranging anthology.” —**Publishers Weekly
In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary scholarship...