No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

216 No god but God in the words of John’s Gospel, “the light shining in the darkness, though the darkness does not overcome it” ...

Stain Your Prayer Rug with Wine 217 come to resemble the Arabic word hu! or “He,” meaning God. By repeatedly invoking God throug ...

218 No god but God “remembrance of God” is best expressed through rapturous spiritual concerts called sama‘, which Bruce Lawrenc ...

Stain Your Prayer Rug with Wine 219 encouraging Muslim cooperation with the British colonialists who were just then beginning to ...

������ 9. An Awakening in the East THE RESPONSE TO COLONIALISM DISPATCH FROM FREDERICK Cooper, Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, ...

An Awakening in the East 221 ensued. But Providence ordered otherwise. Indeed, everything nat- ural, artificial, and accidental ...

222 No god but God The execution commenced uninterrupted until one of our men swooned away (he was the oldest of our firing-part ...

An Awakening in the East 223 taken hundreds of years to evolve in Europe—were pressed upon the colonized lands with no attempt t ...

224 No god but God even Ellenborough would have agreed with Trevelyan, who argued that the Indian religion was “identified with ...

An Awakening in the East 225 due the uprising they were compelled, somewhat reluctantly, to unleash the full force of their colo ...

226 No god but God had witnessed for himself the gruesome revenge meted out by the British forces upon the rebellious population ...

An Awakening in the East 227 upon traditional Muslim beliefs and customs, the result would be an indigenous Islamic Enlightenmen ...

�� 228 No god but God ciation), countered the Aligarth platform by arguing that, far from separating the religious and civil, Is ...

An Awakening in the East 229 construction of their crowning achievement, the Suez Canal, Egypt’s fate as Britain’s most valuable ...

230 No god but God At first, al-Afghani seemed unconcerned with the momentous events taking place around him. As his earliest bi ...

An Awakening in the East 231 But al-Afghani was no member of the Aligarth. In fact, he consid- ered Sayyid Ahmed Khan a tool of ...

232 No god but God whole of the Quran. As a young disciple of the Shadhili Sufi Order, he had excelled in his studies of the Isl ...

An Awakening in the East 233 allegiance, as universal suffrage. According to this view, the Ummah was the nation, and its ruler ...

234 No god but God and God, while the fatherland is the concern of us all.” Nevertheless, the Pan-Arabists considered their move ...

An Awakening in the East 235 lim unification. And though Pan-Arabism was thus left as the princi- pal voice of opposition to col ...