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| | Political philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Two key aspects are the political economy by which property rights are defined and access to capital is regulated, and the rules of truth and evidence that determine judgements in the law. | | | The rise of Islam based on both the Qur'an and the political philosophy of Muhammad drastically altered the power balances and perceptions of origin of power in the Mediterranean region. | | | This conceptual distinction continues to operate in political science, although some political scientists, philosophers, historians and cultural anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outside of its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states which nevertheless must be considered politically. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy
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| | Book Reviews - Middle East Quarterly |
| | Kepel, Gilles, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam | | | Sherman, Martin, The Politics of Water in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective on the Hydro-Political Aspects of the Conflict | | | Shadid, Anthony, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam |
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http://www.meforum.org/meq/reviews.php
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| | Azerbaijan-Islam and Middle East |
| | Modern Azerbaijan and the Karabakh Conflict: Resources concerning the historical, political and legal aspects of the Karabakh conflict. | | | Governments of Azerbaijan: Links to websites of governmental institutions and political parties in Azerbaijan. | | | Jewish History of Azerbaijan: Offers a detailed history of the Jewish people in Azerbaijan history. |
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http://www.ou.edu/mideast/country/azerbaij.htm
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| | Muammar al-Qaddafi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Qaddafi based his new regime on a blend of Arab nationalism, aspects of the welfare state and what Qaddafi termed "direct, popular democracy." He called this system "Islamic socialism" and while he permitted private control over small companies, the government controlled the larger ones. | | | Qaddafi emerged as leader of the RCC and eventually as de facto chief of state, a political role he still plays, although he holds no official position. | | | Qaddafi's inspiration was Gamal Abdul Nasser, president of neighboring Egypt, who rose to the presidency by appealing to Arab unity and condemning the West. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moammar_Al_Qadhafi
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| | Islamic History in Arabia and Middle East |
| | As the chief source of Islamic doctrine and practice, the Quran is the main foundation of the shari'ah, the sacred law of Islam, which covers all aspects of the public and private, social and economic, religious and political lives of all Muslims. | | | The fifth pillar of Islam is the pilgrimage to Mecca- the hajj. | | | Qiyas is the application of human reasoning to extend the principles found in the two primary sources - the Quran and the sunnah- to cases involving matters unknown in the early years of Islam. |
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http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ihame/Ref2.htm
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| | The War against Islam |
| | The proponents of "progressive Islam" are not regarded as Muslims, because they are actively engaged in corrupting the basic tenents of Islam. | | | I do not believe they are fighting the religion and it's spiritual aspects per se, rather they are fighting to stop the political system. | | | I believe that since they are fighting to stop the implementation of the Shariah, that they are fighting Islam with it since Islam requires nations with Muslim majorities to live by Islamic laws. |
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http://www.ummah.com/waragainstislam
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| | Islam |
| | The interrelation between theological positions and political events is particularly clear in the first issues that arose in the history of Islam. | | | Islam encompasses personal faith and piety, the creed and worship of the community of believers, a way of life, a code of ethics, a culture, a system of laws, an understanding of the function of the state--in short, guidelines and rules for life in all its aspects and dimensions. | | | Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, followed three years later by the expulsion of the French troops by the combined British-Ottoman forces, is often seen as the beginning of the modern period in the history of Islam. |
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http://utminers.utep.edu/ajkline/islam2.htm
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| | Laith Kubba, "Islam and Liberal Democracy: Recognizing Pluralism |
| | Since these schools are apolitical by tradition, the interpretation of the political aspects of Islam has recently been claimed by combinations of activist clerics and political groups. | | | Islamic teachings have shaped the history and political culture of hundreds of millions of people over fourteen centuries, and have embraced a vast range of nations, cultures, sects, and schools of thought. | | | This political passivity has its roots in religious teachings, and has gone far to perpetuate the tradition of authoritarian government in the Islamic world. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kubba.htm
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| | Samuel P. Huntington |
| | Edward Said expertly destroys these notions of Huntington's that "The West" and "Islam" are somehow fixed and opposed entities; indeed, he shows that Islam, Christianity and Judiasm all derive from the same source, and that aspects of Islam have been interwoven into the fabric of so-called "Western" life since its inception. | | | Harvard University ideologist Samuel Huntington's deeply flawed theory of a "Clash of Civilizations" between "The West" and "Islam" is now being touted by politicians and the press as the new international political paradigm | | | Critics Assail Scholar's Article Arguing That Hispanic Immigration Threatens U.S. High levels of Hispanic immigration threaten to disrupt the political and cultural integrity of the United States, according to a controversial new article by the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who is the chairman of Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies. |
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http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=114
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| | Europe and the Middle Ages, Fourth Edition: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data |
| | This comprehensive, well-balanced historical survey of medieval Europe--from Roman imperial provinces to the Renaissance--covers all aspects of the history (political, literary, religious, intellectual, etc.) with a focus on social and political themes. | | | This comprehensive, well-balanced historical survey of medieval Europe--from Roman imperial provinces to the Renaissance--covers all aspects of the history (political, literary, religious, intellectual, etc.) with a focus on social and political themes. | | | It presents a complete picture of the complex process by which an ecumenical civilization that once ringed the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, evolved into three other distinctive civilizations--Latin Europe, Greek Eastern Europe and Asia Minor, and Islam. |
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| | Therefore, the political Aqeedah of Islam is complete and comprehensive, it addresses all affairs and aspects of life and treats all situations accurately. | | | The Islamic Aqeedah is a political idea, so it is a political thought; indeed it is the foundation of the political thought for Muslims. | | | The rules which emanate from the political Islamic Aqeedah oblige the Muslims to implement Islam completely, and to establish upon its basis an independent and distinguished Islamic entity and to build a unique society which is the Islamic society. |
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http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/english/books/afkarsiyasia/chapter_02.html
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| | Islam quick survey, expansion, membership of today, art gallery |
| | After the death and burial of Muhammad, the political and spiritual leadership of the Muslims was assumed by the "Caliphs" ("successors"), or "deputies of the Prophet", who ruled Islam in his place in all aspects except as prophet. | | | Islam is not only a "religion", but a "total way of life"; there is no distinction between the sacred and the secular, the religious leader is the political leader, and every aspect of the individual life should be Islam: Dress, food, and every detail of the family or social life... | | | Branches: The two main divisions of Islam are the Sunni (90%) and the Shiite; the Wahabis are the most important Sunni sect, while the Shiite sects include the Assassins, the Druses, and the Fatimids, among numerous others. |
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http://www.religion-cults.com/Islam/islam.htm
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| | History of popular Islam in northwestern Tunisia 1800-1970 |
| | This paper explores the interplay between local popular Islam and the repeated introduction of formal Islam in Khumiriya, against the background of its social and political structure and the radical changes the latter underwent in the colonial and post-colonial era. | | | But on the other hand, the formal variant of Islam, and its local exponents, cAn be heard to be explicitly rejected by Khumiri peasants when discussing, with scorn and resentment, the alleged machinations of local authorities and elite both within and outside the sphere of the religion. | | | This implicit assumption of continuity could be interpreted as an unconscious attempt, on the part of the Khumiris, to escape the cognitive dissonance between on the one hand formal Islam as a local ideal reinforced from outside and on the other popular Islam as a fondly cherished local practice. |
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http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/popul.htm
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| | islam: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror |
| | Keywords: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, Books, Bernard Lewis, Jihad, Terrorism, Religious aspects, Islam, War, Middle East - History, Religion - World Religions, Religion, Islam - History, Middle East - General, Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism, History | | | islam: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror | | | The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror |
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| | Institute for State-Church Relations |
| | Islam v súvislostiach (Islam in Context) – set of articles by seven experts in the field looking at Islam from different aspects; the publication intends to contribute to the explanation of the political consequences of Islam, of bomb-attacks and terrorism (September). | | | Silvia Jozefčiaková, M.A. graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Matej Bel, Banská Bystrica | | | proceeded both from the materials and information from new religious groups and from the results of own analytic study of domestic and foreign specialized literature and periodicals (April). |
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| | Indonesia - Islam |
| | As an adviser between 1891 and 1904, Snouck Hurgronje advocated tolerating the spiritual aspects of Islam but containing rigorously Islam's political expression. | | | Organized political party structures promoting Islam were disciplined to the requirements of Pancasila democracy in the PPP, and Islamic organizations, including the Muhammadiyah movement and Nahdatul Ulama, were subjected to government regulations flowing from the Mass Organizations Law. | | | Muslim critics of the regime in the early 1990s claimed that the government policy toward Islam was "colonial" in that it was putting in place in modern Indonesia the advice of the Dutch scholar and adviser to the Netherlands Indies government, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. |
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| | Culture : Morocco : Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress) |
| | It is a major portal site that links a number of other websites on all the Arab countries. It contains up-to-date information on the political, business, social, cultural and religious aspects of a particular country. Just click on the name of the country for information in English and Arabic&; | | | The Open Directory Projects portal page on Islam offers hundreds of citations on various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran. | | | The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations, etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world. |
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| | The Destruction of the Khilafah |
| | Now a days, Khilafah and the political system of Islam is under consistent and continuos attack. | | | This anniversary should push us to think more seriously about our responsibility which Allah (swt) has bestowed upon the Muslims, which to implement Islam in ALL aspects of our lives and carry it to the entire humanity. | | | Khilafah is the mechanism to implement Islam with all of its values, outlook, culture and legislation. |
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http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~ezubi/khilafah.htm
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| | The New Encyclopedia of Islam |
| | All aspects of religious belief, ritual, practices, prayer, significant political movements, spiritual and political leaders, art, architecture, sects, law, social institutions, history, ethnography, nations and states, languages, science, major cities and centers of learning are covered. | | | A comprehensive reference work covering the different aspects of Islamic civilization, with maps showing the faith's spread over the centuries, and charts of the different branches of Islam. | | | Book Description : The New Encyclopedia of Islam is the only single-volume work in print which so comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history and culture of the Islamic world, in over 1300 entries. |
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http://isbn.nu/0759101892
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| | Middle East Quarterly: The United States government: Islam's patron?@ HighBeam Research |
| | The authors assert that US diplomats traditionally avoid mentioning religious aspects of political situtations in favor of focusing on policies, that they don't discuss the Jewish, Catholic or Hindu aspects of various situations, but have increasingly begun to develop a policy towards Islam; the... | | | This article examines the US policy toward the Middle East and Islam, focusing on the different approaches used in response to the Iranian hostage situtation in 1979-1981 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001, suggesting that American officials have changed their discourse. | | | Middle East Quarterly: The United States government: Islam's patron?@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:82128352&refid=holomed_1
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| | History of the Muslims, empires of Islam |
| | These empires were primarily based on Sunni Islam, and that meant that there was no religious authority to counterbalance the political power exercised by the caliphs. | | | According to Sunni beliefs, each individual must work out their own submission to Allah; there is no priest or other religious authority to intercede upon a person's behalf or to lead the religious aspects of the community. | | | This was not some aberration of Islam, but rather business as usual for all but the moderate factions. |
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| | Islamist - dKosopedia |
| | Islamist is a term often used to refer to Muslims who are fundamentalist in their theology and willing to consider political organizing and/or violent action to bring about a world consistent with that theology. | | | Islamists often differ drastically on their attitude to democracy, political party organizing, and the state itself. | | | What aspects of Islam they are in favour of turning into law or practice, however, vary extremely widely. |
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| | Charles Butterworth - Publications |
| | The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, Essays in Honor of Muhsin S. Mahdi, with others, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992). | | | "The Greek Tradition in Ethics and its Encounter with Moral Wisdom in Islam," in Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Ottawa,17-22 August, 1992, ed. | | | "Ethics and Classical Islamic Philosophy: A Study of Averroes' Commentary on Plato's Republic," in Ethics in Islam, Ninth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Bienniel Conference, ed. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/faculty/charles_butterworth_pubs.htm
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| | Baylor University The Pulse The Rise of An Ayatollah |
| | The Iranians; Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation, (New York, 1996), p.102. | | | It was Khomeini& political savvy and acute understanding of the Iranian citizens and their plight that allowed him to recognize the revolutionary potential of the citizens’ nationalistic protests against the Shah.&; However, his authentic religious piety and austere lifestyle won him popular standing among people outraged by corrupt politicians. | | | Iranians identified both with Khomeini& strong sense of nationalism and his piety, and these two aspects were indispensable in effecting the revolution. |
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| | Islamic Studies |
| | Centre for Islamic Studies - Housed at the University of Wales, Lampeter, the CIS offers undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities to study many aspects of Islam and Muslims in-depth - in both historical and contemporary contexts. | | | Middle East Studies Association of North America - Private, non-profit, non-political organization of scholars and other persons interested in the study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world. | | | International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) te Leiden - The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) promotes and conducts interdisciplinary research on contemporary social and intellectual trends and movements in Muslim societies and communities. |
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http://dmoz.luman.biz/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Islam/Education/Islamic_Studies
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| | Hans Köchler -- Philosophical Foundations of Civilizational Dialogue -- 1997 |
| | In the present context, we use the term “civilization” similarly to the term “culture.” In another context, a terminological distinction may be made in regard to “culture” being the specific manifestation of a certain “civilization” in the sense of a community’s general identity encompassing political, economic and cultural aspects. | | | The cultural (civilizational) dimension seems to be deliberately getting confused with the political realm as rightly stated by Robert Charvin in his reflections on Islam and the West. | | | As stated by the I.P.O.’s earlier symposion on Islam and Christianity, one of the main obstacles to a meaningful understanding between Islam and Christianity is the continuing existence of false stereotypes in school-textbooks. |
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| | Bangladesh: The Next Taliban State? by Taj Hashmi |
| | An appraisal of political Islam in Bangladesh requires an understanding of the socio-economic and cultural aspects of the polity. | | | What is worrisome is the way the writer has demonised both Islam and Bangladesh, totally ignoring the positive aspects of the third largest Muslim country, which is a functional democracy, no longer considered a “basket case”— the way Henry Kissinger portrayed the country in 1972. | | | She has no idea about the similarities and differences between various Islamic groups and their leaders, the “great” and “little” traditions of Islam in the region and the difference between the mass/popular perceptions and the reality. |
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http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/taj_hashmi/bangladesh_next_taliban.htm
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| | Which way forward for Muslims?--Ummah.comGeneral |
| | In these words, Alija reinforces our understanding that Islam encompasses the religious, political, social, and economic aspects of our lives. | | | Alija Ali Izetbegovic, the former President of Bosnia, in his great book, Islam Between East and West, propounds the difference between Islam and other faiths. | | | The ideological attack against Islam by the West is not new, but uses a new arsenal, a new world order, that seeks to pervert the true image of Islam. |
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| | Islam, the Modern World, and the West |
| | In his article, A New Cultural Constituency: American Muslims and The Crisis of Political Participation, Professor Ali Mazrui, the Director of the Institute for Global Cultural Studies at State University of New York at Binghamton, discusses the main aspects of the problem. | | | The First Contacts of Islam with the Balkans written by a Kosovar scholar, Nexhat Ibrahimi, who has been a chairman of the Society of the Kosovar Muslim Scholars and is currently emprisoned by the Serbian authorities. | | | Tunisian Leader Advises on Terror A Washington Times article briefly discussing Tunisian President Ben Ali's views and policies concerning Palestine, political Islam, human rights, women, democracy, and terror. |
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http://www.uga.edu/islam/countries.html
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| | Nation |
| | Nation of Islam anti-semitism Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism anti-Semitism. | | | Father of the Nation Father of the Nation is a term used by many countries to describe a political or symbolic leader wh... | | | Nation A nation is a group of people sharing aspects of their ethnicity. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/nation.html
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