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Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order

Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order

Salman Sayyid

Sayyid focuses on how demands for Muslim autonomy are debated in terms of democracy, cultural relativism, secularism and liberalism.
Panjāb Yūnīvarsiṭī Lāʾibrerī ke nādir ʻArabī makht̤ūt̤āt kī ...

Panjāb Yūnīvarsiṭī Lāʾibrerī ke nādir ʻArabī makht̤ūt̤āt kī ...

Abdul Nabi Kaukab

Ahmad b. Abi Sahl 262-63. Sayfu'd Din Ahmad b Yahyab. Muhammad b. Sa'di'd- Din at-Taftazani, ghaykhu'l-Islam see at-Taftazini. Sayyid 'Abdu'r-Rahman see ' Abdu'r- Rahman, Sayyid. Sayyid Sharif see Ash-Sharif al-Jurjani. as-Sayyid ...
Muslimnews International

Muslimnews International

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Thus the leadership of the movement fell to his elder cousin, 29-year old, Sayyid Ahmad ash-Sharif. Born at Jaghbub in 1873, Sayyid Ahmad ash-Sharif received his education under the personal tutelage of his uncle. The most immediate task  ...
Salman Rushdie: A Deleuzian Reading

Salman Rushdie: A Deleuzian Reading

Søren Frank

The volume will be of special relevance to students, scholars, and general readers concerned with the work of Salman Rushdie and Gilles Deleuze.
Islamic Postcolonialism: Islam and Muslim Identities in Four ...

Islamic Postcolonialism: Islam and Muslim Identities in Four ...

?asan Sa??d Sayyid Marz?q

Islam and Muslim Identities in Four Comtemporary British Novels ?asan Sa??d Sayyid Marz?q. Amin Malak, Anouar Majid and Waïl Hassan have written about the complicated contemporary relationship between Islam and postcolonialism.
African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to ...

African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to ...

Karen Juanita Carrillo

December 27 1807 Omar Ibn Sayyid, the Muslim African who was enslaved in the southern United States yet wrote the Autobiography of Omar ibn Said in 1831, arrives at the Charleston, South Carolina harbor. In 1831, Omar ibn Sayyid, ...
The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns

The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns

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Muhammad Farmuli and his younger brother, Musan, Surdas and many other learned scholars and poets assembled there and poems in Arabic, Persian and Hindi were recited.3 Whereas the historicity of the Afsana-e shahan is often unreliable on the subject of Mir Sayyid Manjhan, its author Muhammad Kabir was on surer ground because his maternal grandfather, Shaikh Khalil Haqqani, of whom he gives a detailed account, was the spiritual disciple of Mir Sayyid Manjhan in ...
Fictions to Live in: Narration as an Argument for Fiction in ...

Fictions to Live in: Narration as an Argument for Fiction in ...

Joel Kuortti

Rajkowska, Barbara Ozieblo. "The Reality of the Alien: an Exploration of Salman Rushdie's Novels." Revista canaria de estudios ingleses, no. 13/14, April 1987, pp.9-27. Rao, M. Madhusudhana. Salman Rushdie's Fiction: A Study ('Satanic ...
Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works

Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works

Sabrina Hassumani

"Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works attempts a close textual analysis of Rushdie's five major novels: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor's Last Sigh.
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Reena Mitra

4 Third World Literature as National Allegory: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Shyam S. Agarwalla Fredric Jameson has argued in "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" (1986) that "All Third World texts are ...
Intravitreal Injections: A Handbook for Ophthalmic Nurse ...

Intravitreal Injections: A Handbook for Ophthalmic Nurse ...

Salman Waqar

A Handbook for Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioners and Trainee Ophthalmologists Salman Waqar Jonathan C. Park Michael D. Cole Foreword by Peter Simcock \\? World Scientific INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS A Handbook for Ophthalmic Nurse  ...
Khartoum 1885: General Gordon's last stand

Khartoum 1885: General Gordon's last stand

Donald Featherstone

Early in 1881 unrest in the Sudan began to crystallise around Mohammed Ibn Ahmed el-Sayyid Abdullah.
Kernel of the Kernel: Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual ...

Kernel of the Kernel: Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual ...

Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i

An English translation of a seminal book on Sufism from a Shi'i perspective by an eminent Muslim thinker.
What They Saw in America

What They Saw in America

James L. Nolan, Jr

Grounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - ...
Writers on organizations

Writers on organizations

Derek Salman Pugh

In this highly personal work, Boulding traces his lifelong search for human betterment.
معجم رجال الفكر و الادب في كربلاء

معجم رجال الفكر و الادب في كربلاء

Salmān Hādī Ṭuʻmah

Ulama; scholars, Muslim; authors, Arab; Karbalāʼ (Iraq); biography.
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Catherine Cundy

Literary criticism of Rushdie's work outside of special journals and periodicals.
Studying Islam: The Critical Issues

Studying Islam: The Critical Issues

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... 62, 68, 94 Qutb, Sayyid 79, 83, 85,137,161n3, 164n12 Rabbinical literature/ Mishnah/ Midrash 39-40, 43-4, 104 Rabiya of Basra 111 Rahman, Fazlur 20, 21, 22, 47, 155n35 Ramaswamy, Krishnan xx rape 81, 84, 88,160n26,163n19 Rashid, ...
Fury: A Novel

Fury: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy.
Sanūsīyah: A Study of a Revivalist Movement in Islam

Sanūsīyah: A Study of a Revivalist Movement in Islam

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The Turks and their German Allies succeeded, in 1915, in convincing Sayyid Ahmad ash-Sharif to launch an attack on Egypt from the West. This adventure was short-lived and ended with a defeat both for the attack and for the policy inspired ...
Shame

Shame

Salman Rushdie

For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a ...
Indian Former Muslims: Salman Rushdie, Kishore Kumar, ...

Indian Former Muslims: Salman Rushdie, Kishore Kumar, ...

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The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject.
Joseph Anton

Joseph Anton

Salman Rushdie

This is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story. How does a man live with the constant threat of murder?
Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic ...

Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic ...

Robert D. Lee

Robert D. Lee explores these compelling questions by presenting four contemporary Muslim writers—Muhammad Iqbal, Sayyid Qutb, ‘Ali Shari‘ati, and Mohammed Arkoun—all of whom have refused to bow to such a dichotomy of modernity and ...
New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

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Houston Journal of International Law 22: 129-68. Rosenthal, E. 1998 ... Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 13: 299-346. . 1999. Chinese ... July 15, 131. 14 Islamism and the Politics of Eurocentrism S. Sayyid A 278 MaroufHasian Jr.
East, West

East, West

Salman Rushdie

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West.

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