Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle EastOpen Court, 15. 4. 2011 - Počet stran: 496 From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West. This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the Middle East ranges over the whole sweep of Islamic history and Western attempts to comprehend it. |
Obsah
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| 25 | |
Muslim History and Historians | 87 |
The Cult of Spain and the Turkish Romantics | 129 |
Muslims and Jews | 135 |
On the History and Geography of a Name | 153 |
An Ode against the Jews | 167 |
Turks and Tatars | 187 |
The Significance of Heresy in Islam | 275 |
The Revolutions in Early Islam | 295 |
Islamic Concepts of Revolution 3 11 | 313 |
On Modern Arabic Political Terms | 337 |
New Events | 359 |
The Egyptian Murder Case | 375 |
How Khomeini Made It | 389 |
The Middle East Crisis in Historical Perspective | 405 |
Ottoman Observers of Ottoman Decline | 209 |
The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath | 223 |
Corsairs in Iceland | 239 |
History and Revolution | 259 |
Notes | 421 |
Sources | 459 |
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