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A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic with MP3 Files

By: Richard S. Harrell,Mohammed Abu-Talib,William S. Carroll

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A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic with MP3 Files

By: Richard S. Harrell,Mohammed Abu-Talib,William S. Carroll

A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic is a textbook in spoken Moroccan Arabic that is written for beginners who are unfamiliar with the Arabic language, alphabet, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Written in Latinate transcription it is carefully designed to present these elements in a progressive, user-friendly, step-by-step manner. Following the initial pronunciation introductions and practice, there are 130 lessons consisting of a text where a small number of phrases and sentences illustrate grammatical points. These sections also contain exercises in new grammar and vocabulary. Each lesson is structured in a way that guides the learner naturally and comfortably into an understanding of the structure of Moroccan Arabic. From there, the course progresses into ninety-seven short, conversational dialogs that place the student in a variety of social situations. First introduced to Arabic language students in the 1960s, A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic still has no equal for clarity and ease of use. An audio CD of MP3 files that further aid and enhance the lessons is now bound into this volume.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589010817

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The Unveiling Origin of Mecca

Rise of Ancient Islam in North Arabia

By: Mohammed Alal Khan

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The Unveiling Origin of Mecca

Rise of Ancient Islam in North Arabia

By: Mohammed Alal Khan

The Unveiling Origin of Mecca provides insights into the history of Kaaba (Ka’ba) in Mecca. The Ka’ba is the first house built on earth. It is one of the few and perhaps the only Islamic History books that looks at modern archaeological evidence and the Holy Quran and the history of the Quran to explore the proper location of the Ka’ba. The author notes that in the Holy Quran, Mecca, sometimes also called Becca, which words are synonymous, and signify “a place of great intercourse,” is undoubtedly one of the most ancient cities in the world. Some authors imagine it to be the Mesa, or Mesha, of the Scripture and that it deduced its name from one of Ishmael’s sons. It stands in a stony and barren valley, surrounded by mountains under the exact parallel with the Macoraba of Ptolemy, and about 40 Arabian miles from the sea 'Al Kolzom. There is a magnificent temple in the city, like the Colosseum at Rome. However, it is not made of such large stones but burnt bricks and round in the same manner. It has ninety or one hundred doors around it and is arched...upon entering the temple you descend ten or twelve steps of marble, and here and there about the said entrance there stand men who sell jewels and nothing else. Researching ancient Islam and the origin of Mecca, the author asserts that the Ka’ba is currently misplaced, contradicting the Holy Quran and Arabian geography. Although there are many Islamic scholars and Quran research Institutes throughout the world, sadly, none of them have yet verified the exact places, mountains surrounding Ka’ba, and its sacred area according to the Holy Quran.

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1665528095

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Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan

Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival

By: Mohammed H. Sharfi

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Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan

Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival

By: Mohammed H. Sharfi

Examining the role played by ideology, internal politics and key figures within Sudan after the 1989 coup, this book analyses policymaking in the Sudanese administration in-depth and studies its effect on international and domestic politics and foreign policy. The military coup undertaken in June 1989 by the Sudanese Islamist movement, known to them as the ‘National Salvation Revolution’, established Sudan as a central actor in the instability of the region. This book explores the foreign policy, international and domestic politics of the new government, from post-coup Sudan to the present day. The intriguing political issues in Sudanese foreign policy during the period pose many questions regarding the dynamics of the government’s domestic and international policymaking. Studying the fragmentation of the Islamist movement into various political bodies, this book examines the role of foreign policy as a contentious point of Sudanese domestic politics. Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan also looks at the major factors in the relations of Sudan, such as the civil war, terrorism and human rights issues. Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, African politics, human rights studies and Islamic studies.

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Routledge

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1351032844

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Islam and the West

A Rational Perspective

By: Mohammed Jabar

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Islam and the West

A Rational Perspective

By: Mohammed Jabar

ÿSince its origins in the deserts of Arabia fourteen centuries ago, Islam has grown until today it has one and a half billion followers, nearly a quarter of mankind. Today Islam is feared and distrusted by much of the Western world for its association with religious extremism and terrorism, although the vast majority of Muslims believe only in peace, love and service to Allah and assert that extremism has no place in their faith.

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1861513003

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9781861513007

Islam and Violence

By: Khaleel Mohammed

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Islam and Violence

By: Khaleel Mohammed

After 9/11, many writers have posited the relationship between Islam and violence as either elemental or anomalous. Khaleel Mohammed defines Islam as transcending the usual understanding of religion, being instead like a 'sacred canopy' that provides meaning for every aspect of life. In addition, he shows that violence has both physical and psychological dimensions and expounds at length on jihad. He traces the term's metamorphosis of meaning from a struggle in any worthy cause to war and finally to its present-day extension to include martyrdom and terrorism. Finally, he covers the dimensions of violence in the Islamic law and the institutional patriarchy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108659489

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Cultural History of Odisha

By: Mohammed Yamin

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Cultural History of Odisha

By: Mohammed Yamin

Historical knowledge could be a guide to understand the present and shape our future also. An important aspect of this book is to critically analyze the culture of Odisha. This book is to outline the emergence of Islam and its role on various aspects of Odishan way of life, of course, Odisha has been home of different tradition and customs from generation. With the entry of Islam, there were noticeable changes occurred in Odishan society, religion, historiography, art, architecture, painting, language, maritime trade and commercial intercourse. The culture of Odisha is full of continuity and enrichments. The history of Odisha during the post-Islamic involvement is a portrayal of reconciliation between the Hindus and the Muslims on various field. ln this book eighteen chapters have been dealt which are culturally associate with odisha. The cultural fusion of Odisha has been critically emphasized here.

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Readworthy Publications

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9350184303

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Politics of the Islamic Tradition

The Thought of Muhammad Al-Ghazali

By: Mohammed Moussa

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Politics of the Islamic Tradition

The Thought of Muhammad Al-Ghazali

By: Mohammed Moussa

Over the last two centuries the Muslim world has undergone dramatic transformations, impacting the Islamic tradition and throwing into question our understanding of tradition. The notion of tradition as an unmoving edifice is contradicted by the very process of its transmission, and the complex role human beings play in creating and sustaining traditions is evident in the indigenous mechanisms of change within the Islamic tradition. Politics of the Islamic Tradition locates the work of Egyptian cleric Muhammad al-Ghazali within the context of this dynamic Islamic tradition, with special focus on his political thought. Al-Ghazali inherited a vast and diverse heritage which he managed to reinterpret in a changing world. An innovative exploration of the change and continuity present within Muslim discourses, this book brings together disparate threads of the Islamic tradition, religious exegesis, the contemporary Arab Middle East, the Islamic state and idea of renewal in al-Ghazali’s thought. As well as being one of the first complete treatments of al-Ghazali’s works, this book provides an original critical approach to tradition and its capability for innovation and change, countering the dichotomy between tradition and modernity that typically informs most scholarly studies on contemporary Islam. Offering highly original insights into Islamic thought and engaging with critical notions of tradition, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Islamic Politics and History.

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1317554795

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Financing the Development of Old Waqf Properties

Classical Principles and Innovative Practices around the World

By: Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin,Hisham Dafterdar,Murat Cizakca,Syed Othman Alhabshi,Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak,Seyed Kazem Sadr,Thamina Anwar,Mohammed Obaidullah

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Financing the Development of Old Waqf Properties

Classical Principles and Innovative Practices around the World

By: Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin,Hisham Dafterdar,Murat Cizakca,Syed Othman Alhabshi,Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak,Seyed Kazem Sadr,Thamina Anwar,Mohammed Obaidullah

This book presents successful case studies in Muslim and Muslim minority countries that have revolutionized the redevelopment of idle waqf properties into productive land trusts. The revival of this institution over the last two decades shows the growing optimism in galvanizing the socioeconomic role of waqf by adopting its flexible shariah measures. Innovative ways of financing redevelopment allow Muslims to extend these roles to include new beneficiaries. New uses for these properties include providing services to the community, opening jobs for the majority of people, funding small entrepreneurs, educating the masses, providing health care, and sheltering the poor and needy. Countries under study include Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Iran. Additionally, the book examines the International Development Bank's role in financing the development old waqf properties in different countries.

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113758128X

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AlQur'an: The Koran

By: Mohammed

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AlQur'an: The Koran

By: Mohammed

The Quran literally meaning "the recitation"; Qur'an or Koran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God. It is widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language. The Quran is divided into chapters called suras, which are then divided into verses called ayahs.

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anboco

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3736411278

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Islamic Terrorism and the Tangential Response of the West

The Other Side of the Coin

By: Al-amine Mohammed Abba Seid

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Islamic Terrorism and the Tangential Response of the West

The Other Side of the Coin

By: Al-amine Mohammed Abba Seid

A lot has been done and said on so called War On Terror, and the relation between the West and the Muslim world, principally from Western perspective. However, very few is known about Muslim perspectives-the perspective of the people at the receiving end. Th e Book Islamic Terrorism and the Tangential Response of the West, will give the reader a unique opportunity to learn about the other side of the coinfrom Muslim perspectives: Why Terrorism is not a monopoly of Islam and Muslims. Why? But not how? event like 9/11 happened. What are the grievances of the Muslim world vis a vis the policies of the Western establishment. What is the attitude of Islam towards Judaism and Christianity. What Islam stands for as a religion and a comprehensive way of life. What is the state of mind of a typical Muslim as citizen of this world. How the War on Terror is used as a tool for Global Imperialism. How the Western powers use fl imsy pretexts to re-edit the tragic era of colonialism.

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Above the Law 360°

By: Jibril Mohammed

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Above the Law 360°

By: Jibril Mohammed

This book is an inspirational about the understanding of the world religious Scriptures. The terms that commonly understood by all the religious sects especially the Bible, the Quran, Hindu and Buddhist Scriptures. World leaders always talk about peace and unity but it can be acquired only by understanding the will and the testament of God to His creatures. By reading this we will witness the hidden truth ourselves, then the choice is ours to make. This Book is dedicated to the citizens of the worlds six continents. The world is filled with confusion, turmoil, uprisings, revolutions and war without end. It is high time we found out what was wrong, and got a solution to all these problems. Looking closely, it is evident that at the centre of our mishaps is our confusion about our own faith in the Lord, which is the first and precious thing in the life of mankind. Coming together under one umbrella of belief will help us seek the truth about God, what are the real commandments, the truth about Jesus Christ and what he said, especially tangible proofs from the Scriptures, and which religion is the true religion of God for mankind and how we split into sects? What is the real story of St. Paul, Constantine the Prince of Byzantine, who is the founder of Christianity, what is Islam? Who is Muhammad? And what proves him to be a Prophet from God? I think every individual needs to know these things to make their own choices.

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1481700456

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Islamic Wealth Planning & Management: The Practice of Personal Finance (UTeM Press)

By: Rosalan Ali,Ismail Ahmad,Mohammed Hariri Bakri

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Islamic Wealth Planning & Management: The Practice of Personal Finance (UTeM Press)

By: Rosalan Ali,Ismail Ahmad,Mohammed Hariri Bakri

This book, “Islamic Wealth Planning & Management: The Practice of Personal Finance” focuses on personal financial management with applications of Shariah principles that suit both students and working people for entertaining applications. It begins with introducing wealth management, explaining how wealth can be created, accumulated, mobilized, preserved and purified. This book guides readers on investing their surplus income in the stock, bond, property and commodity markets that comply with Shariah principles. It describes how important it is for readers to have personal financial planning in their retirement, estate, and inheritance. It will plans that could provide regular returns and avoid the risk of losing their pension or EPF money. It concludes how easy it is to have their set of personal finance in terms of personal assets, personal, debts and personal income as a practical way to control expenses and hence avoid becoming bankrupt at the young ages of 25-40 years.

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967279245X

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Kurdish Islamists in Iraq from the Muslim Brotherhood to the So-Called Islamic State

Continuity or Departure?

By: Mohammed Shareef

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Kurdish Islamists in Iraq from the Muslim Brotherhood to the So-Called Islamic State

Continuity or Departure?

By: Mohammed Shareef

The major Islamist groups in the Kurdistan region of Iraq have long been part of the political landscape both at the subnational Kurdistan level and at the Iraqi national level. They gradually emerged in the late 1980s and became more visible and pronounced as a result of the atrocities inflicted on the Kurdish people under Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. Subsequently the Kurdish Islamist groups became a fixture on the formal Kurdish political stage in 1991 after the popular Kurdish uprising in the spring of that year. The Islamists have so far not become a major determining factor in Kurdish politics, yet they are nonetheless significant and effective. In the mid-1990s they became for a short while a vehicle for protest votes against the two major Kurdish political parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan).

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King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)

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6038032657

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9786038032657

Interfaith Dialogue

A Guide for Muslims

By: Muhammad Shafiq,Mohammed Abu-Nimer

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Interfaith Dialogue

A Guide for Muslims

By: Muhammad Shafiq,Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Islam recognizes a plurality of religions and asks Muslims to respect other religions. The primary role of interfaith dialogue is to remove misunderstanding and accept difference, the aim being to generate a climate of peaceful coexistence and harmonious social relations. And this is perhaps more needed today than ever before, as mankind is increasingly called upon to exercise tolerance in a markedly volatile world, where living and working together in diversity is fast becoming the norm. Interfaith dialogue is by no means easy, defensive reaction; uncomfortable exchange and an overwhelming desire to avoid a perceived compromise of deeply held principles are some of the pitfalls that can easily cool commitment and the best of endeavors. It is here that this Guide makes an important contribution. The book is designed to guide Muslims who are interested and/or involved in building relations with those of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

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1565645421

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9781565645424

Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali

By: Mohammed Al-Ghazzali

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Some Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali

By: Mohammed Al-Ghazzali

The Comparative Study of Religions, interesting as a form of intellectual research, has for many a further value in the influence it may exert upon the widening and the deepening of the religious life. The practical value may become more and more acknowledged, if, as signs suggest, the reality of the religious experience is more keenly felt and mankind recognise the place of religious goods in the highest type of life. Though it is certainly premature to say that there is much serious acknowledgement and recognition of these values amongst the peoples of the world, there are reasons to think that tendencies of thought and feeling in this direction are increasing in power. One of the best means of aiding the Comparative Study of Religions and promoting these tendencies is by the publication of important books connected with the religions, representing the views of leading thinkers and saints. If we turn to Islam, we find that some Western writers describe it as in a condition of progressive decay, while others would have us believe that its onward march is a menace. It is well to be able to avoid the obvious purpose which lies behind both contentions. Nevertheless, to the present writer it appears true to say that there is much stagnation in Islam (In which religion is there not?), and that its spirit is often lost and its real teachings neglected owing to the general use of Arabic in the recitation of the Quran by persons entirely ignorant of that language, and also to the prevalent mechanical conception of the character of the Quran as a form of divine revelation. We believe that the Comparative Study of Religions will help to turn the attention of Muslims away from these to the emphasising of the essential spirit of Islam. This should be central and normative in the rising movements of reform and rejuvenescence. In this connection, as bringing out this spirit, it is especially appropriate, both for the students of the religions and for those directly interested in the spiritual revival in Islam, to publish in an easily accessible form some of the religious and moral teachings of Ghazzali. A Western scholar has written of him that he is “the greatest, certainly the most sympathetic figure in the history of Islam ... the only teacher of the after generations ever put by Muslims on a level with the four great Imams.” And he goes on to remark further; “In the renaissance of Islam which is now rising to view, his time will come and the new life will proceed from a renewed study of his works.” But Dieterici says of him: “As a despairing sceptic he springs suicidally into the all-God (i.e. all-pervading deity of the Pantheists) to kill all scientific reflection.” To justify such a judgment would indeed be impossible if the whole course of Ghazzali’s works is taken into consideration. The greatest eulogy is perhaps that of Tholuck: “All that is good, worthy, and sublime, which his great soul had compassed, he bestowed upon Muhammedanism, and he adorned the doctrines of the Quran with so much piety and learning that in the form given them by him they seem, in my opinion, worthy of the assent of Christians. Whatsoever was most excellent in the philosophy of Aristotle or in the Sufi mysticism, he discreetly adapted to the Muhammedan theology. From every school he sought the means of shedding light and honour upon religion, while his sincere piety and lofty conscientiousness imparted to all his writings a sacred majesty.”

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Library of Alexandria

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1465543325

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Contemporary Bioethics

Islamic Perspective

By: Mohammed Ali Al-Bar,Hassan Chamsi-Pasha

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Contemporary Bioethics

Islamic Perspective

By: Mohammed Ali Al-Bar,Hassan Chamsi-Pasha

This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

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