Religion

The Faith of Islam

Product DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTE TO CHAPTER I. IJ T I H A D . Qcestions connected with Ijtihod are so important in Islam, that I think it well to give in the form of a note a fuller and more technical account of it, than I could do in the Chapter just concluded. This account which I shall now give is that of a learned Musalman, and i. s, therefore, of the highest value. It consists of extracts from an article in the Journal Asiatique, Quatrieme Serie, tome, 15, on ” Le March e et lea Progres de la Jurisprudence parmi les Sectes ortho- doxes Musalmanes” by Mirza Kazim Beg, Professor in the University of St. Petersburg. It entirely supports all that has been said of the rigid character of Muhammadan Law, and of the immobility of systems founded thereon. ” Orthodox Musalmans admit the following propositions as axioms. 1. God the only legislator has shown the way of felicity to the people whom He has chosen, and in order to enable them to walk in that way He has shown to them the precepts which are found, partly in the eternal Quran, and partly in the sayings of the Prophet transmitted to posterity by the Companions and preserved in the Sunnat. That way is called the ” Shari’at. ” The rules thereof are called Ankara. 2. The Quran and the Sunnat, which since their manifestation are the primitive sources of the orders of the Law, form two branches of study, viz. , Ilm-i-Tafsir, or the interpretation of the Quran and Ilm-i-Hadis, or the study of Tradition. 3. All the orders of the Law have regard either to the actions (Din), or to the belief (Iman) of the Mukallifs. 1 4. As the Quran and the Sunnat are the principal sources from whence the precepts of the Shari’at have been drawn, so the rules recognized as the principal elements of actual jurisprudence arc the subject of Ilm-i-Fiqh, or the science. . .

The Faith of Islam

Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

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Product DescriptionWITH A NEW AFTERWORD In his controversial and critically acclaimed While Europe Slept, Bruce Bawer outlined the danger that Islamic immigration posed to traditional European values. In this provocative follow-up, he takes up the West’s recent trend of silence and appeasement in the face of cultural intimidation by radical Islam.  From an examination of coverage of the shocking murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh to the widespread denunciation of the Danish editors who published editorial cartoons mocking Mohammed, Bawer shows how radical Islam has cowed Western media, politicians, intellectuals, and religious leaders into believing that we must give up the right of free expression to peacefully coexist with the Muslim world. Fearless and excoriating, Surrender is an unapologetic and uncompromising defense of free speech that will stir conservatives and liberals alike.

Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

Mohammed The Prophet of Islam

Product DescriptionIn the preface to Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam Hayes states that the purpose of this essay is to set the facts straight about Moslem life and the Moslem faith. Hayes is writing in 1914 to Christians in England. Hayes says that the earliest writings about Mohammed depict him as a normal man with all the flaws and sins of his followers and it is only is later editions of the Koran that Mohammed’s faults are ignored and he becomes a holy person.

Mohammed The Prophet of Islam

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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Product DescriptionIn her powerful new memoir, the #1 bestselling author of Infidel tells the stirring story of her search for a new life as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. A unique blend of personal narrative and reportage, moving, engaging, wryly funny at times, Nomad gives us an inside view of her battle for equality in the face of considerable odds. Ayaan captured the world’s attention with Infidel, the eye-opening memoir of her childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia, and her escape to Holland en route to a forced marriage in Canada. Nomad is the story of what happened after the Dutch director with whom she made a documentary about the domestic abuse of Muslim women was murdered by a radical Islamist and death threats forced her into hiding; of her bid to start a new life in America; of her renewed contact with her family on her father’s death; and of her attempts to live by her adopted principles. With deep understanding, and through vivid anecdotes, and observations of people, cultures, and the political debacles that are engulfing the world, she takes us with her on an illuminating, unforgettable journey.

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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