This is an English translation of Sahih al-Bukhari from the beginning to Book 33 on I'tikaf, covering more than one-quarter of the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari. It goes up to hadith number 2046 out of the 7563 hadith reports in Sahih al-Bukhari. The explanatory notes are translated from the Urdu work Faḍl al-Bārī, a complete translation and commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari by Maulana Muhammad Ali, published in two volumes (1926 and 1937).
We live in an over-sexualised culture where sex and sexuality have become part of the public domain. This sexual revolution challenges Judeo-Christian and Islamic norms and boundaries. As such, sexuality education is a sensitive and extremely important issue, and its current implementation in schools has raised public concerns. This book explores the subject, contextualising it within the matrix of Islamic beliefs and practices. Islam binds sexuality and sexual education to a moral grid with rights and obligations, justice and equity. There is a dominant discourse and stereotype around ‘Islamic sexuality’, which presents sex and sexuality as the biggest taboo, fraught with fear and seldom discussed. This book dispels such myths and misconceptions, providing an overview of sexuality education in the modern world and the need for such education.
Introduction: Jihad Today -- PART ONE: JIHAD NOW Chapter One: Are We Already Fighting A Jihad? How radical Muslims use jihad as a modern-day rallying cry -- Chapter Two: Europe: Jihad in the Making? -- Chapter Three: The Jihad Way of War -- PART TWO: JIHAD THEN: EXPLODING THE MYTHS OF "TOLERANT ISLAM" Chapter Four: Jihad in the Qur'an: Is war the will of Allah? -- Chapter Five: Muhammad in the Field: The wars of the Prophet -- Chapter Six: In the Prophet's Footsteps: Jihad and dhimmitude in early and modern Islam -- Chapter Seven: The Modern Myth of Islamic Tolerance: The fact of modern Islamic intolerance -- Chapter Eight: Jihad in Eclipse and Resurgent -- Chapter Nine: Terrorism: Jihad abused? -- Chapter Ten: Everybody Must Get Stoned: The strange alliance between radical Islam and the post-1960s Left -- Chapter Eleven: How to Fight the War We're In.
Looks at modern Muslim views on religious authority, including feminism's `new' Islam and shows how these views affect the perception of the Qur'an and the figure of Muhammad in the traditional practice of Islam.
Howard Shin in "The Dividing Worldviews of Jesus and Muhammad" has selected anecdotes, laws, commandments and personal life examples from the lives of Muhammad and Jesus that govern the lives of their followers throughout the world. Although these two men claim to have been inspired by and sent by the God of Abraham, yet there are significant differences in their approach, their message, their mission and their life examples. Thus all the conflicts between Christians and Muslims in terms of religion and culture trace back to the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad. It is also in the life and teachings of these two men you will learn the differences between Muslims and Christians relationship with God and men.
It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer proves definitively that Islamic terror is as old as Islam itself, as old as Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who said “I have been made victorious through terror.” Spencer briskly traces the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion. Told in great part in the words of contemporary chroniclers themselves, both Muslim and non-Muslim, The History of Jihad shows that jihad warfare has been a constant of Islam from its very beginnings, and present-day jihad terrorism proceeds along exactly the same ideological and theological foundations as did the great Islamic warrior states and jihad commanders of the past. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is the first one-volume history of jihad in the English language, and the first book to tell the whole truth about Islam’s bloody history in an age when Islamic jihadis are more assertive in Western countries than they have been for centuries. This book is indispensable to understanding the geopolitical situation of the twenty-first century, and ultimately to formulating strategies to reform Islam and defeat radical terror.
The attacks on 9/11 were part of a 1,400 year Islamic jihad against the non-Islamic world. Since 9/11 there have been over 10,000 additional violent jihads. In addition, there have been thousands of "soft jihads" where Muslims have attempted to replace Western culture with that of Islam. The jihadists are motivated by the core principles of Islam with the goal of converting, killing, or subjugating all non-Muslims. Unfortunately, too many non-Muslims have reverted to a pre-9/11 mentality and do not see the necessity of an offensive war in Iraq or Afghanistan, or of a defensive war at home. Non-Muslims are going to have to decide to fight for their cultures, freedoms, and values or they are going to lose them. Dr. Crandall has been teaching sociology at the college and university level for over 30 years. The focus of some of his other books have been in the area of gerontology, the physiological and psychological consequences of running, and Inuit art. The attacks on 9/11 changed the focus of his research, and he has spent the last seven years researching and writing this book.
This title begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability.
