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Among muslims was originally published as the golden peakamong muslims is the account of jamie's time travelling alone and living among the shia and ismaili muslims in the northern areas - the mountainous regions wedged between afghanistan, india and china and one of the most volatile borderlands in the worlda bold, sympathetic and superbly written book, among muslims delves into jamie's own scottish upbringing to find links with the purdah-observing lifestyle of her shia muslim hostsoxfam shop dumfries when ten pakistani men walk into kathleen jamie's small scottish town on a peace march, in november , she is thrown back to her own travels in northern pakistan and a book she wrote a decade earlierit is a privileged account from an acclaimed poet, who during her travels was often literally the only woman on the bussee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor this edition, kathleen jamie returned to pakistan to write an afterword and preface
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Title: aristotle's children: how christians, muslims, and jews rediscovered ancient wisdom and illuminated the middle agestitle: aristotle's children: how christians, muslims, and jews rediscovered ancient wisdom and illuminated the middle ages
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Leaders-that muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we doleaders recognize this fact and adjust their policies abroad accordingly, even moderate muslims will join the bin laden camppolicies and their attendant military, political, and economic implicationsfurther, until uanimosity, osama bin laden's genius lies not simply in calling for jihad, but in articulating a consistent and convincing case that islam is under attack by americascheuer contends they will go to any length, not to destroy our secular, democratic way of life, but to deter what they view as specific attacks on their lands, their communities, and their religionhowever, although aspects of the modern world may offend conservative muslims, no islamist leader has fomented jihad to destroy participatory democracy, for example, the national association of credit unions, or coed universitiesinstead, a growing segment of the islamic world strenuously disapproves of specific ucapitalizing on growing anti-uleaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow strongeral qaeda's public statements condemn america's protection of corrupt muslim regimes, unqualified support for israel, the occupation of iraq and afghanistan, and a further litany of real-world grievances see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries access a comprehensive bibliography though uleaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al qaeda, one member of the uaccording to the author michael scheuer, the greatest danger for americans confronting the islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of u blustering political rhetoric "informs" the public that the islamists are offended by the western world's democratic freedoms, civil liberties, inter-mingling of genders, and separation of church and stateintelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terrorbin laden's supporters thus identify their problem and believe their solution lies in war
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African americans, and muslims and hindus in europe, are some of the best known among themspecific chapters study africans in modern europe, jews in ancient egypt, syrians throughout the roman empire, hindus in britain and muslims in the netherlands today, and other so-called diaspora communitiesoxfam books & music lancaster the modern world is full of diasporasincreasingly, the criterion used by journalists and academics for identifying such minorities is ethnic identity rather than religious allegiancebut what is a diaspora ? derived from jewish tradition, the word is now often applied to any minority which has migrated from its place of originthe concept of 'diaspora' has spread rapidly in academic writing and the popular pressit considers under what circumstances people may be classified as living in a diaspora, and the consequences this has for their position in societysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe present volume explores the ways in which the term 'diaspora' has been applied in past and present to various religious communities in different contexts
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The author addresses the alienation from the mosque of the great majority of america s homegrown muslimsjeffrey lang, author of the two best sellers, even angels ask and struggling to surrender presents in this book an engaging dialog with the queries of young american muslims and convertsoxfam bookshop holmfirth profsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregift writing on title page: otherwise unmarked
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The structure of a whole life based on islam is explored together with islam's approach to other faiths and muslims in contemporary britain and europeoxfam bookshop cheltenham this book is designed to take people on the first steps in understanding islam and the way that muslims think and see the worldthis is then traced through a series of steps such as a world-view, prophecy, revelation, history, belief and practiceit grows out of extensive experience of teaching the course on which it is basedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe arrangement of material builds a framework to understand islam on its own terms rather than through an externally applied structureislam is linked to the essential guidance of god to all humankind from the beginning of creation
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Despite warnings such as this one, president truman supported establishing a jewish state on land primarily inhabited by muslims and christianseven fewer know that us politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle comedy drama set in salfordgeorge wants to raise his children as devout muslims, but things go wrong when his eldest son nazir (ian aspinall) flees his arranged marriage midway through the ceremonypakistani chip shop owner george khan (om puri) lives with his white wife ella (linda bassett) and their seven childrenundeterred, george plans a marriage for his son tariq (jimi mistry), but when tariq discovers what is happening he rebels against his father, and the future of the family is plunged into doubtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisc and case in good condition
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Omar and his comrades come up with several destructive plans, including using birds as explosives and bombing mosques in an attempt to provoke non-violent muslimsamong them are dim-witted waj (kayvan novak), shy and quiet faisal (adeel akhtar) and recently-converted white muslim, barry (nigel lindsay), whose passion far outweighs his knowledgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle black comedyriz ahmed plays omar, a devout british-based muslim who forms a small terrorist groupbut do this rag-tag team of terrorists really pose a genuine threat to britain? disc and case in good conditionomar is an unconvincing leader and his team of fellow terrorists are just as unimpressive
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Oxfam bookshop lymington damien o'donnell directs this comedy drama set in salfordgeorge wants to raise his children as devout muslims, but things go wrong when his eldest son nazir (ian aspinall) flees his arranged marriage midway through the ceremonypakistani chip shop owner george khan (om puri) lives with his white wife ella (linda bassett) and their seven childrensee oxfam website for delivery information read moreundeterred, george plans a marriage for his son tariq (jimi mistry), but when tariq discovers what is happening he rebels against his father, and the future of the family is plunged into doubt
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The events on which he reported included the assassinations of two indian prime ministers, the storming of the sikh golden temple, the bhopal gas disaster, and the conflict between hindus and muslims which followed the demolition of a mosque at ayodhyaoxfam bookshop carlisle mark tully looks back on more than two decades as the bbc's correspondent in indiasee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith additional observations recorded by tully, this compilation represents a record of his broadcasts which provides not only an historical account of events but also a description of india itself
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Set several months after the end of the fifth season, carrie returns home to work for a foundation supplying aid to muslims living in the united states, just as the country elects a woman, elizabeth kean (elizabeth marvel), into the oval officetruth', 'sock puppets', 'the flag house', 'r for romeo' and 'america first'the episodes are: 'fair game', 'the man in the basement', 'the covenant', 'a flash of light', 'casus belli', 'the return', 'imminent risk', 'altsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop wanstead discs condition- very good: a few light marks/ scratches only case condition- good: some shelf wear all 12 episodes from the sixth season of the critically acclaimed us drama centred around the life of former cia agent carrie mathison (claire danes)
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Oxfam shop colne road acclaimed filmmaker michael winterbottom directs this controversial drama-documentary about the three british muslims captured in afghanistan in who were accused by the united states of being al-qaeda fighterssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretransported to the secretive prison camp at guantanamo in cuba, the trio were designated 'enemy combatants' rather than prisoners of war, and were held without charge or trial, and subjected to torture, for four years until their release could be secured
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'only half of me' tells the story of the author's childhood in somalia, his family's attitude to religion, his double life as a british muslim & that of other british muslimsthis work takes us into lives that are widely misunderstood, & tries to make sense of our own fractured worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Islamist muslims have won the culture war in much of the muslim world, and their success provides a glimpse of what awaits the christian west and israelwithin judaism, the ultra-orthodox may achieve majority status over their liberal counterparts by mid-centurybut most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religiousoxfam shop nether edge dawkins and hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forwardthe cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the westnot only will the religious eventually triumph over the non-religious, but it is those who are the most extreme in their beliefs who have the largest familiesbased on a wealth of demographic research, considering questions of multiculturalism and terrorism, kaufmann examines the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises - and what this means for the future of western modernitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinstead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularistshas owners name to inner pageand what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share of the population: in fact, the more religious people are, the more children they have
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Oxfam bookshop birmingham a moving and heart-warming modern british muslim take on little women from growing star brand and former bake off winner nadiya hussainthe four amir sisters - fatima, farah, bubblee and mae - are the only young muslims in the quaint english village of wyvernagefarah is happy being a wife but longs to be a motherinscribed to 'josh' on the endpaperbubblee is determined to be an artist in london, away from family tradition, and mae is coping with burgeoning youtube stardomin very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefatima is trying to find out who she really is - and after fifteen attempts, finally pass her driving testyet when family tragedy strikes, it brings the amir sisters closer together and forces them to learn more about life, love, faith and each other than they ever thought possibleon the outside, despite not quite fitting in with their neighbours, the amirs are happybut on the inside, each sister is secretly struggling
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After years of bloodshed the brethren have helped create a truce between the christians and muslimsbut there are those on both side for whom peace is not an optionoxfam bookshop st albans it is and in the fortified city of acre, the last major stronghold of the crusaders in palestine, an epic conflict is beginningas war looms, will is torn between his oath as a templar, his secret role in the brethren and his duty to elwen, the woman he loves but is forbidden to marryrobyn young is a compelling voice in historical fiction, writing in the tradition of bernard cornwell, conn iggulden and manda scottwill campbell is a templar knight, trained for war, but as a member of the mysterious group known as the brethren, he is also a man of peacesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford inter-religious relations in india are notoriously fraught, not infrequently erupting into violencecombining archival and interview material, she accounts for how the community's idealized identity as a place of peace is realized on the ground through a variety of strategiesbigelow explores the complicated history of the region, going back to its foundation by a sufi saint in the fifteenth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith a minimum of intervention from outside interests, muslims, hindus, and sikhs have successfully managed conflict when it does arisethis fascinating town with its rich history will be of interest to students and scholars of islam, south asia, and peace and conflict resolutionas a story of peace in a region of conflict, this study is an important counterbalance to many conflict studies and a corrective to portrayals of islamic cultures as militant and intolerantbigelow focuses on a muslim majority punjab town (malkerkotla) where both during the partition and subsequently there has been no inter-religious violencethis book looks at a place where the conditions for religious conflict are present, but active conflict is absent
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Baghdadi, the leader of isis, urged muslims around the world to come join the caliphatein early , the islamic state clinched its control of raqqa in syriabut instead of finding a land of justice and piety, they found themselves trapped within the most brutal terrorist regime of the twenty-first century, a world of chaos and upheaval and violencewhat is the line between victim and collaborator? how do we judge these women who both suffered and inflicted intense pain? what role is there for muslim women in the west? in what is bound to be a modern classic of narrative nonfiction, moaveni takes us into the school hallways of london, kitchen tables in germany, the coffee shops in tunis, the caliphate's ob/gyn and its 'guest house for young widows' - where wives of the fallen waited to be remarried - to demonstrate that the problem called terrorism is a far more complex, political, and deeply relatable one than we generally admitan intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the islamic stateoxfam shop thornbury a guardian and observer book of the yearemma, from germany; sharmeena, from bethnal green, london; nour, from tunis: these were women - some still in school - from urban families, some with university degrees and bookshelves filled with novels by jane austen and dan brown; many with cosmopolitan dreams of travel and adventuresee oxfam website for delivery information read morehaving witnessed the brutal oppression of the assad regime in syria, and moved to fight for justice, thousands of men and women heeded his callat the heart of this story is a cast of unforgettable young women who responded
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