Islam : A Short History
Islam • 181 Algerian revolution against France had been an inspiration to Arabs and Muslims who were also struggling to gain ind ...
182. Karen Armstrong After the electoral victories at the local level, they seemed certain to succeed in the legislative electio ...
Islam • 183 credit the GIA. There was now a ghastly stalemate. Both FLN and FIS were torn apart by an internal feud between the ...
184. Karen Armstrong uncomfortably aware that if there were truly democratic elec- tions, an Islamic government might well come ...
Islam • 185 government, and though he is often harried by the more con- servative mujtahids, he strongly influences those in pow ...
186. Karen Armstrong of Qatar, takes a similar line. He believes in moderation, and is convinced that the bigotry that has recen ...
Islam • 187 The West has not been wholly responsible for the extreme forms of Islam, which have cultivated a violence that viola ...
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Epilogue On September 11,2001, nineteen Muslim extremists hijacked four passenger jets, flying two of them into the World Trade ...
190. Epilogue demns all aggressive warfare and teaches that the only just war is a war of self-defense. But Osama bin Laden and ...
Epilogue. 191 tatives of the faith. He was careful to have a Muslim stand- ing beside him at the ceremony of mourning in Washing ...
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Key Figures in the History of Islam Abbas I, Shah (1588-1629): presided over the zenith of the Safavid Empire in Iran, building ...
194. Key Figures in the History of Islam Abu al-Qasim Muhammad: also known as the Hidden Imam. He was the Twelfth Imam of the Sh ...
Key Figures in the History of Islam. 195 All al-Rida: the Eighth Shii Imam. Caliph al-Mamun appointed him as his successor in 81 ...
196. Key Figures in the History of Islam Haqq, Zia ul-: prime minister of Pakistan (1971-77) who pursued a more avowedly Islamic ...
Key Figures in the History of Islam. 197 Ibn Sina, Abu Ali (980-1037): known in the West as Avicenna, he rep- resents the apogee ...
198. Key Figures in the History of Islam Junaid of Baghdad (d. 910): the first of the "sober Sufis" who insisted that the experi ...
Key Figures in the History of Islam. 199 Mansur, Caliph al-: Abbasid caliph (754—75). Strongly suppressed Shii dissidents and mo ...
200. Key Figures in the History of Islam Mulla Sadra (d. 1640): Shii mystical philosopher whose work was an in- spiration to int ...
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