Islamic World Today
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Talk 1: The Muslim World Today (Khilafah Conference Britain)
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Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today's World [Struggling with Modernity, Vol. 3] $55.00 The West often associates Islam with technological backwardness, religious intolerance, and a savage penal code. Is this justified. Or should the concept of "modernity" be seen in the context of the Third World and a fundamentally difference world view. This program looks at the tensions within Islamic states as they attempt to make their laws and practices compatible with the 21st Century whil... |
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Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today's World [Paradise Lies At the Feet of the Mother, Vol. 4) $55.00 The role of the family is a key element in Islamic life. The film explores the position of women under a shari'a law in Egypt and Iran and asks how much is laid down by the faith and how much is added by the confines of local or tribal custom. In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, women are seen in jeans and short skirts working alongside those jilbab. Is this Islam or a heresy.... |
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Living Islam: What It Means to Be a Muslim in Today's World [The Challenge of the Past, Vol. 2] $55.00 The three major empires' greatness and subsequent decline explain many differences in Muslim thinking today. The Ottomans were confronted by Europe and Christianity, accounting for the western approach of many Turkish Muslims; the Mughals achieved a synthesis with Hinduism that produced such beauty as the Taj Mahal, while the Saffavid dynasty was characterized by the shi'a/sunni split which is st... |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) $3.97 Islam expert Robert Spencer reveals Islam's ongoing, unshakable quest for global conquest and why the West today faces the same threat as the Crusaders did--and what we can learn from their experience.... |
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Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom $9.19 In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural world as well as the fear of questioning our own communities. Since publishing her international bestseller, The Trouble with Islam Today, Manji has moved from anger to aspiration.... |
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years $0.76 In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world'... |
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The Rock the Casbah (Hardcover) $18.55 By a veteran reporter, an up-close portrait of the fierce struggle--between moderates and extremists--taking place within the Islamic world today. |
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Dreams and Visions (Paperback) $10.62 Jesusappears to be revealing Himself to Muslims through powerful dreams and visionsthroughout the Islamic world today, and the results are dramatic.Eleven years ago, Pastor Tom Doyle felt God callinghim to leave the pastorate an... |
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