Encyclopedia of Islam

Encyclopedia of Islam

Author: Juan Eduardo Campo

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 1438126964

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Explores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of this religion and the way it is practiced today.


Tourism in the Muslim World

Tourism in the Muslim World

Author: Noel Scott

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1849509204

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Provides a synthesis of thought on an influential issue for tourism, and a point of focus for tourism researchers, managers and developers in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Maldives and Turkey, as well as the Western world.


Pan-Islam

Pan-Islam

Author: Jacob M. Landau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1317397533

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Few ideas have excited such passions over the years as Pan-Islam, and few have been the subject of so many contradictory interpretations. Based on a shared religious sentiment, the politics of Muslim unity and solidarity have had to contend with the impact of both secularism and nationalism. Professor Landau’s study, first published in 1990 as The Politics of Pan-Islam, is the first comprehensive examination of the politics of Pan-Islam, its ideologies and movements, over the last 120 years. Starting with the plans and activities of Abdülhamid II and his agents, he covers the fortunes of Pan-Islam up to and including the marked increase in Pan-Islamic sentiment and organization in the 1970s and 1980s. The study is based on a scholarly analysis of archival and other sources in many languages. It covers an area from Morocco in the west to India and Pakistan in the east and from Russia and Turkey to the Arabian Peninsula. It will provide a unique reference point for anyone wishing to understand the impact of Pan-Islam on international politics today.


The Caravan

The Caravan

Author: Thomas Hegghammer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0521765951

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Traces Abdallah Azzam's path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.


Jihad Joe

Jihad Joe

Author: J. M. Berger

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

Published: 2011-04-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1597976938

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They are Americans, and they are mujahideen. Hundreds of men from every imaginable background have walked away from the traditional American dream to volunteer for battle in the name of Islam. Some have taken part in foreign wars that aligned with U.S. interests while others have carried out violence against Western interests abroad, fought against the U.S. military, and even plotted terrorist attacks on American soil. This story plays out over decades and continents: from the Americans who took part in the siege of Mecca in 1979 through conflicts in Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Bosnia, and continuing today in Afghanistan and Somalia. Investigative journalist J. M. Berger profiles numerous fighters, including some who joined al Qaeda and others who chose a different path. In these pages he portrays, among others, Abdullah Rashid, who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan; Mohammed Loay Bayazid, who was present at the founding of al Qaeda; Ismail Royer, who fought in Bosnia and Kashmir, then returned to run training camps in the United States; Adam Gadahn, a California Jew who is now al Qaeda's chief spokesman; and Anwar Awlaki, the Yemeni-American imam with links to 9/11 who is now considered one of the biggest threats to America's security.


Salafism in Nigeria

Salafism in Nigeria

Author: Alexander Thurston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-22

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1107157439

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Examines how Salafism, a globally influential Muslim movement, is reshaping religious authority in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.


A Modern History of the Islamic World

A Modern History of the Islamic World

Author: Reinhard Schulze

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780814798195

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Considering the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia, Schulze (Islamic studies, U of Berne) charts their histories during the 20th century. Rather than taking each one in turn, he narrates chronologically the political changes throughout the world where Islam is the dominant cultural force. He begins with the impact of colonialism and ends with struggle between Islamic culture and civil society in the 1990s. He includes several maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR