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Highlights the actions and interpersonal relations of Muhammad in Makkah and Madinah before Islam took root, when it was a minority faith. By focusing upon the period when Islam was a minority faith in Makkah, he draws out the most pertinent messages in the revelations received, and how they can be applied to Muslim minorities.Extremely useful book to establish a historical perspective of Islam as a 'state religion', focusing on the early history of Islam when, during rapid expansion,...
| Автор | Muhammad Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi |
Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary circles, Mandela’s reference contributed to a revival of interest in Jonker and her work that continues to this day. Viljoen’s biography illuminates the brief and dramatic life of Jonker, who created...
| Автор | Louise Viljoen |
Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was sent to the notorious Robben Island prison, where he continued to write even as tension grew...
| Автор | Colin Bundy |
"Dr. Seddon has contributed an important and fascinating chapter to the modern history of Britain."—David Waines, emeritus professor of Islamic Studies, Lancaster University, UK Originally arriving as imperial oriental sailors and later as postcolonial labor migrants, Yemeni Muslims have lived in British ports and industrial cities from the mid-nineteenth century. They married local British wives, established a network of «Arab-only» boarding houses and cafes, and built...
| Автор | Mohammed Siddique Seddon |
The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and childhood to the triumph of Islam and its hold on Arabia. The author sets this against a fascinating historical backdrop. His careful analysis of the Prophet's life is written with today's Muslim and non-Muslim readers in mind:...
| Автор | Adil Salahi |
In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, Rebein covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a...
| Автор | Robert Rebein |
Muslims all over the world see Muhammad as God's last messenger to mankind. Through his actions, he showed the way to live a life that provides for all the needs of body, mind, and soul, and elevates man's aspirations towards a sublime ideal in a very simple, direct, and truthful manner. He built a state that was dedicated to truth and justice and to the liberation of man throughout the world. He wrote to emperors, kings, and rulers, calling on them to believe in God and to follow His...
| Автор | Adil Salahi |
"It is rare to see a publication which includes personalities from both Shia and Sunni schools of thought and which is so much needed in today's turbulent world. This book, I believe will . . . enrich our understanding of not only the historical but the contemporary history of the Muslim."—Ahmed J. Versi, chief editor of The Muslim News (London) Who have been the Muslim world's most influential people? What were their ideas, thoughts, and achievements? In one hundred...
| Автор | Muhammad Mojlum Khan |
Aims to prove that peace and peaceful coexistence with people of other faiths is the rule and custom in Islamic shariah and Islamic way of life, allaying the misperception that Islam is inextricably linked with violenceUsing examples from the Prophet's life it clearly shows that Islam resorts to war only when it is compelled to defend itself against outside aggression.seeks to bring into sharper focus the relevance of the Prophet’s exemplary life in our timesAll the major battles in the...
| Автор | Zakaria Bashier |
Having delved into the heads of many of the world's most notorious murderers and published his gripping findings in the bestselling Talking with Serial Killers, for his latest book, renowned crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of more monsters across the world and entered their prison lairs to discuss in detail their horrific crimes. Looking at the unique reality of their criminal lives and documenting the extent of their brutishness and cruelty, this book delves deep...
| Автор | Christopher Berry-Dee |
Seit Jahrzehnten sind sie der Inbegriff des Rock 'n' Roll: über 200 Millionen verkaufte Alben, ausgebuchte Tourneen und eine gigantische Fangemeinde sind Ausdruck einer einmaligen Erfolgsgeschichte, die noch lange nicht zu Ende ist. AC/DC – Die Audiostory gewährt den Fans Einblicke hinter die Kulissen der Band, nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine musikalische Reise – und garantiert Maximum Rock 'n' Roll.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. “From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in 1918, she dove into city life with an outlander’s anthropological zeal,” reads a recent New Yorker ...
| Автор | Patricia E. Palermo |
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital. As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC’s antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of...
| Автор | Adekeye Adebajo |
Selling Points The Pushcart Prize-winning essay included in “Glad to Be Human” means an attention-getting gold seal on the front of the book.O’Garden’s voice is unique, ranging from the playful to the poetic to the profound. The book is beautifully written with heart and humor.The human race gets a lot of bad press. Glad to Be Human models gratitude and motivates people to appreciate their lives in a positive framework. It’s an inspirational book that is literary and spiritual without being...
| Автор | Irene O’Garden |
Here is the true story of a man from India who comes to the United States to go to seminary, which he finds to be both a demanding social environment and a vigorous philosophical and theological world. After four years of seminary he gets married and completes a doctorate in philosophy. Soon he finds himself in a profound spiritual crisis teaching philosophy in an ivory tower. He hears protests in the streets for civil rights, peace, and environmental integrity. Events conspire to produce a...
| Автор | Kenneth Daniel Stephens |
In summer of 2008, Aaron J. Nicholson set out to complete the unthinkable: a 460-mile solo backpacking trip across the State of Oregon without resupplying food or gear. Carrying an immensely heavy pack containing an unappetizing variety of calorie-rich foods, he started his quest at the California border and trekked north on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, determined to reach the Columbia River. But could it be done? Did he possess the resolve and stamina necessary to achieve his...
| Автор | Aaron J. Nicholson |
In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014–15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf’s relationship with her indigenous grandmother and urban parents, her early marriage, her years studying in the United States, and her career in international development and finance, where she developed her...
| Автор | Pamela Scully |
In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to 1967. One of the most respected African leaders, Luthuli linked South African antiapartheid politics with other movements, becoming South Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience techniques. He also...
| Автор | Robert Trent Vinson |
This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain’s post-war welfare debates. Drawing on his own papers, publications, and interviews with those who knew him, the book discusses Titmuss’s ideas, particularly those around the principles of altruism and social solidarity, as well as his role in policy and academic networks at home and overseas. It is an enlightening portrait of a man who deepened our understanding...
| Автор | Stewart, John |
Im Urlaub auf Gran Canaria verschwindet die Hündin Bonny spurlos. Natürlich vermissen ihre Besitzer sie sehr, und so sind sie außer sich vor Freude, als Bonny Monate später wieder auftaucht – mit einem zerzausten Mischling im Schlepptau. Wie haben die beiden kleinen Hunde sich nur durch Südeuropa geschlagen? Neugierig recherchiert Christos Yiannopoulos ihren Weg: die Flucht vor Tierfängern, die Überfahrt aufs Festland als schwarze Passagiere, ihre Stationen in Cádiz, Toledo und Madrid … Christos...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence. During his decades of political activity, he spent periods of exile and hiding...
| Автор | Tan Malaka |
Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness. Writing to reveal the inner self—the pilgrimage into one’s spiritual and/or religious nature—is a primary calling. Contemporary memoirists are exploring this field with innovative storytelling, rigorous craft, and new styles of confessional authorship. Now, Thomas Larson brings his expertise as a critic, reader, and teacher to the boldly evolving and...
| Автор | Thomas Larson |
When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time. In Counting Down , Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a...
| Автор | Deborah Gold |
Amílcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprising contributed significantly to the collapse of a fascist regime in Lisbon and the dismantlement of Portugal’s empire in Africa. Assassinated by a close associate with the deep complicity of the Portuguese colonial authorities, Cabral not only led one of Africa’s most successful liberation movements, but was the voice and face of the anticolonial wars against...
| Автор | Peter Karibe Mendy |