Download or read book Jacob s Children written by Eli Malka and published by Eli Malka. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malka, one of the last living eyewitnesses to many of the events he relates, documents the lives of the Sephardic Jews in the Sudan through the 20th century. Part one details the development of a prosperous Jewish community in the Sudan--from its origins as an isolated group in the turmoil of the Mahdi's revolt in 1881, through the community's most vibrant years in the 1930s and 1940s, to its final demise in the 1960s. Part two contains the author's autobiography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book A Biography of the Prophet of Islam written by Mahdī Rizq Allāh Aḥmad and published by Darussalam. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on the life history of the Prophet (S) stands out from other works in quite a few ways. First, every detail mentioned has been traced back to original sources, whose authenticity has been discussed extensively in the footnotes. Second, the events of the Prophet's life have been related to modern times and lessons drawn for the benefit of those who happen to face similar situations in their struggle to spread the Prophetic message.

Download or read book Roman de Silence written by Heldris (de Cornuälle.) and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual edition, based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature, to those in women's studies and, most important, to everyone who loves a first-rate story.

Download or read book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam written by Yohanan Friedmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expectation of a redeemer is a widespread phenomenon across many civilizations. Classical Islamic traditions maintain that the mahdi will transform our world by making Islam the sole religion, and that he will do so in collaboration with Jesus, who will return as a Muslim and play a major role in this apocalyptic endeavour. While the messianic idea has been most often discussed in relation to Shi‘i Islam, it is highly important in the Sunni branch as well. In this groundbreaking work, Yohanan Friedmann explores its roots in Sunni Islam, and studies four major mahdi claimants – Ibn Tumart, Sayyid Muhammad Jawnpuri, Muhammad Ahmad and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – who made a considerable impact in the regions where they emerged. Focusing on their religious thought, and relating it to classical Muslim ideas on the apocalypse, he examines their movements and considers their achievements, failures and legacies – including the ways in which they prefigured some radical Islamic groups of modern times.

Download or read book Muhammad Ali The Untold Story written by Abuwi Agin Mahdi and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Untold Story is a brief summation of 21 promotional events with Ali and a synopsis of over 13 years of our discussions on the "birth and death "of racism in America. Our conversations incorporated racism from its infancy, elementary, teenage years, adulthood, and senior adulthood developmental stages as well as its extinction. President Obama is referenced several times in the senior adult stage of racism. What is currently happening today referencing the protest marching against racism was part of Muhammad Ali vision as well as the next stage of the evolution of America's development. In reference to Muhammad Ali's growth and development, the following can be said: "To understand the nature of a thing and its refinement, you must witness each stage of its development." Sugar does not grow out of the earth in a bag. It goes through a process from raw sugar cane to refined granulated sugar. In the 13 years that I worked with Ali, I witnessed his, as well as my own, growth and development. It was sometimes painful and regretful, but it was a process that was necessary for our human development. I can look back now and appreciate our experiences together. It is only in appreciation that we discover love and true value. Muhammad Ali would say, "It is one thing to know oil is in the earth, but it is another thing to know how to extract the oil from the earth for the benefit and service of man." This book will take you by the hand and guide you through Ali's caterpillar life-stage of anger, his ignorance of self-hatred, and his irate ill-will towards white people in his belief that all white people were devils. The Untold Story will unveil how, when, and where Ali's wings of maturity and reason took flight above the immaturity of reason, ignorance, lack, hatred, and the absurdity of racial superiority. Muhammad Ali realized that when real love arises from the heart, superiority and inferiority vanish. Ali's love for freedom, justice, and equality for all of humanity was the fuel for his metamorphic journey to float as a magnificent butterfly. Ali believed with his heart and soul that without honor he could not establish a correctional institution within himself. This book is asking "honor" to take the witness stand on behalf of Muhammad Ali and for you to be the judge as to whether individuals or institutions in relationship with Ali arrested their hatred, selfishness, greed, and dishonesty. Muhammad Ali, The Untold Story Skin Color Cannot Think or Reason was written primarily to unveil and reflect the light and darkness inside all of us.Through Ali's life you'll get a play-by-play account on the boxing bouts he battled within himself, between right and wrong, reason and unreasoning, and honesty and dishonesty. The Untold Story reveals his biggest mistakes and greatest regrets. In life, as well as the boxing ring, Ali did not go undefeated. Everything has its indicator; man's thoughtfulness is the hallmark of his reason. Everything has its climax, and the climax of reasoning is humility, which is a decoration of service. quote from Muhammad Ali

Download or read book The First Jihad written by Daniel Allen Butler and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2007-04-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “well-researched” account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in Sudan. Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid hint of a smile. He developed a ferocious resentment, however, against the corrupt Ottoman Turks, their Egyptian lackeys, and finally, the Europeans who he felt held the Arab people in subjugation. In 1880, he raised the banner of holy war, and thousands of warriors flocked to his side. The Egyptians dispatched a punitive expedition to the Sudan, but the Mahdist forces destroyed it. In 1883, Col. William Hicks gathered a larger army of nearly ten thousand men. Trapped by the tribesmen in a gorge at El Obeid, it was massacred to a man. Three months later, another British-led force met disaster at El Teb. This was followed by the infamous conflict at Khartoum, during which a treacherous native—or patriot, depending upon one’s point of view—let the Madhist forces into the city, resulting in the horrifying death of Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon at the hands of jihadists. In today’s world, the Mahdi’s words have been repeated almost verbatim by the jihadists who have attacked New York, Washington, Madrid, and London, and continue to wage war from the Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean. Along with Saladin, the Mahdi stands as an Islamic icon who launched his own successful crusade against the West. This deeply researched work reminds us that the “clash of civilizations” that supposedly came upon us in September 2001 in fact began much earlier, and “lays important tracks into the study of terror, fundamentalism and the early clash between Islam and Christianity” (Publishers Weekly).

Download or read book ED written by Mehdi Hasan and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a man put politics and ambition before family? Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. Brought up against A backdrop of tragedy, with a prominent Marxist thinker for a father, Ed followed his brother to the same college at Oxford, into Parliament and into the Cabinet before, at the eleventh hour, snatching away David's dream of the leadership. This new and fully updated edition follows Ed through the highs of leading the charge against Rupert Murdoch and News International to the lows of plummeting poll ratings, poor press and that infamous 'Blackbusters' tweet. Yet in the wake of Osborne's 'omnishambles' Budget and Labour's impressive gains in May 2012's local elections, political commentators have started to ask, with increasing volume, if we could indeed see Prime Minister Ed Miliband. As the 2015 general election approaches, Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre ask the important questions. Is Ed up to the job? Can he be trusted on the economy? And will he manage to bury the hatchet with David and bring his brother back to the Labour frontbench?

Download or read book The Bomb in My Garden written by Mahdi Obeidi and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for the Bomb in My Garden "This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq—and inside a tyrant's mind." —Fareed Zakaria, author of The Future of Freedom "The Bomb in My Garden is important and utterly gripping. The old cliché is true—you start reading, and you don't want to stop. Mahdi Obeidi's story makes clear how hard Saddam Hussein tried to develop a nuclear weapon, and the reasons he fell short. It is also unforgettable as a picture of how honorable people tried to cope with a despot's demands. I enthusiastically recommend this book." —James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly "One of the three or four accounts that anyone remotely interested in the Iraq debate will simply have to read. Apart from its insight into the workings of the Saddam nuclear project, it provides a haunting account of the atmosphere of sheer evil that permeated every crevice of Iraqi life under the old regime." —christopher hitchens, Slate "Mahdi Obeidi describes in jaw-dropping detail how Iraq acquired the means to produce highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient to building a nuclear weapon, by the eve of the first Gulf War. . . . [His book] offers insights into how a determined dictator, backed by sufficient resources, can come within reach of acquiring the world's most horrific weapons." —The Washington Post BookWorld

Download or read book Auto Bio Nobody Part Ii a Narrative Memoir written by Rasheed Soofi, MD and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days of our lives have many similarities with a game of poker where a hand that is dealt is akin to a day we wake up into every morning. Some hands are sure winners and need no skill to win; some hands would have to be folded at the start, no matter who is playing that hand. It is only in between these two extremes that gives the game the thrill it beholds; and a skilled player walks away with his head up. It does not matter at what minimum bet table the game is played at. The game and its rules are the same except with different scale of win or loss. Each one of our days, regardless of our social or economic class or the geography we are in are dealt to us without prejudice or intention by the conscious-less nature. Accepting it gracefully as the hand is dealt and playing it the best, we know how to is the essence of being harmonious with the unconscientious universe that surrounds us. Folding on some days is a part of the game and is not being out of the game and submitting to the outcome of the game without self-persecution or infliction upon others is also a part and the end part of the game. A man aware of the nature of the game would not bicker when down and would not boast when he is up; it is only a game; how honorably and harmlessly to others it is played is what makes one player different from others. Rasheed Soofi, MD

Download or read book Malay Words and Malay Things written by Waruno Mahdi and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the development of German acquaintance with the Malayan world and language as reflected in publications up to 1700. Beginning with a perusal of earliest cartographic renderings and a recapitulation of economic and political circumstances of German involvement in European Far-Eastern trade after 1500, the volume proceeds to systematically inspect 16th and 17th century German travellers' memoirs and translations of foreign sources. Relevant text passages are quoted in the original with English gloss. Citations of renderings of Malay items are accompanied by transliterations in modern spelling. Ultimate and intermediate sources and the routes by which various items reached the German public are followed, as well as virtual networks of information. Etymologies of numerous real or assumed Malayisms are elaborately reinspected, and corrected where necessary. The development in usage of the acquired Malayisms after 1700, reconstructed from entries in dictionaries and encyclopaedias and through direct quotation from German literature, is shown to reflect fluctuations in public attention towards features from exotic regions.

Download or read book Mahdi s Memoirs written by Roger Dunphy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge written by Knut S. Vikør and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Sanusi (1787-1859) founded the Sufi brotherhood of the Sanusiya in Cyrenaica (Libya), which organized the Bedouin of the desert and its littoral for religious piety and trade and development. It grew into one of the most influential Islamic movements in North Africa and the Sahara, and later played a key role in resisting French and Italian imperialism. Vikor examines the scholarly tradition in which Al-Sanusi was educated as a Sufi teacher and scholar of Islamic Law, and its influence on his intentions and methods. Slightly revised from his 1992 thesis for the University of Bergen. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Mehdi written by Roy Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the pages of this book is a fascinating and inspiring account of how an Iranian, who originally came to the United States as a student, became a millionaire in selling. His story sparkles with fresh ideas, wit, and humor, and can be applied in a most practical way ... to YOUR life and career.

Download or read book Memoir of Lieutenant Rudolph de Lisle R N written by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ibn Khald n s Philosophy of History written by Muhsin Mahdi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. In no other field has the revolt of modern Western thought against traditional philosophy been so far-reaching in its consequences as in the field of history. Ibn Khaldun realized that history is more immediately related to action than political philosophy because it studies the actual state of man and society. He found that the ancients had not made history the object of an independent science, and thought it was important to fill this gap. A factual acquaintance with the conclusions of Ibn Khaldun’s reflections on history is not the same as the full comprehension of their theoretical significance. When these fundamental questions are answered, it becomes possible to pose the specific question of the relation of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history, or his new science of culture, to other practical sciences and, particularly, to the art of history. After an exposition of the major trends of Islamic historiography, part of this book attempts to answer this question through the analysis of the method and intention of the sections of the ‘History’ where Ibn Khaldun himself examines the works of major Muslim historians, shows the necessity of the new science of culture, and distinguishes it from other practical sciences.

Download or read book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering written by Sharon Mehdi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, great change starts with the smallest action ... One day, two grandmothers meet in the park, with a remarkably ambitious goal in mind. More and more women decide to join them and the impact on their community soon makes international news. Together, these women discover that great things are possible, and that by showing a simple act of solidarity they have the power to transform the world.

Download or read book Deep Blue written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering an ancient evil, Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas, to save their hidden world.