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Problems in African History: the precolonial centuries by Robert O. Collins (Editor, Contribution by)ISBN: 9781558763609
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
This collection covers the major problems in the field, including classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt; Bantu Origins and Migration; African States and Trade; Islam in Africa; Women in African Societies; and, Slavery in Africa.
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance:how Islamic law treats non-Muslims by Robert Spencer; Ibn Warraq (Preface by)Publication Date: 2005-01-31
This collection of essays by some of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic social history focuses on the juridical and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. The authors of these in-depth but accessible articles explode the widely diffused myth, promulgated by Muslim advocacy groups, of a largely tolerant, pluralistic Islam. In fact, the contributors lay bare the oppressive legal superstructure that has treated non-Muslims in Muslim societies as oppressed and humiliated tributaries, and they show the devastating effects of these discriminatory attitudes and practices in both past and contemporary global conflicts.
Contested conversions to Islam : narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire by Tijana KrsticPublication Date: 2011-05-13
This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas.
The myth of Islamic tolerance : how Islamic law treats non-Muslims by Robert Spencer; Ibn Warraq (Preface by)Publication Date: 2005-01-31
This book focuses on the juridical and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. The authors of these articles explode the widely diffused myth, promulgated by Muslim advocacy groups, of a largely tolerant, pluralistic Islam. The authors maintain that underlying this religious caste system is a culturally ingrained contempt for outsiders that still characterizes much of the Islamic world today and is a primary impetus for jihad terrorism. This hard-hitting and absorbing critique of Islamic teachings and practices regarding non-Muslim minorities exposes a significant human rights scandal that rarely receives any mention.
Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries by Robert O. Collins (Editor, Contribution by)ISBN: 9781558763609
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
This collection covers the major problems in the field, including classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt; Bantu Origins and Migration; African States and Trade; Islam in Africa; Women in African Societies; and, Slavery in Africa.
Contested conversions to Islam : narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire by Tijana KrsticPublication Date: 2011-05-13
This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas.
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: tradition, memory, and conversion by Sarah Bowen SavantPublication Date: 2013-10-05
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran focuses on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new 'Persian' ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale and sect.
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and today by David NirenbergPublication Date: 2014-10-20
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today. Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other-all in the name of God-in periods and places both long ago and far away.
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