The African-American Islamic Renaissance and the Rise of the Nation of Islam

This dissertation examines African-American Islamic culture from 1920 through 1959, a period I label the "African-American Islamic Renaissance" (AAIR). The AAIR is characterized by a significant increase in interest in Islam, extreme diversity in views about Islam, and the absence of a single organization dominating African-American Islamic culture for a significant amount of time. Previous works dealing with African-American Islam in this period have failed to fully recognize these features, particularly the last of these. As a result, explanations for the rise of the Nation of Islam (NOI) have not satisfactorily explained why it was only the NOI--and not other Islamic groups that were more popular than the NOI up until the mid-1950s--that became a "mass movement," gaining the allegiance of tens of thousands of African Americans. There has been some tendency, for instance, to assume that the NOI was the most popular African-American Islamic group by the early 1950s, a notion that is probably an inference drawn from two other popular but inaccurate assumptions: that the NOI's rise was due primarily to its radical racialized doctrines and its charismatic leaders, particularly Malcolm X, who became a popular minister for the group in the early 1950s. I argue, however, that the NOI was in fact not the most popular African-American Islamic group until at least 1955, and even as late as 1959 its official membership numbers were not particularly large by AAIR standards. Also, its doctrines were not especially unique in the AAIR, nor was its having extremely charismatic leaders. I contend that the success of the NOI in the mid-to-late 1950s was the result of three levels of changes at the time: internal, external in the AAIR community, and external in the broader U.S, culture.

Homo Jihadicus. Islam in the former USSR and the phenomenon of the post-Soviet militants in Syria and Iraq. OSW REPORT 2015-09-21

The post-Soviet area, along with the countries of the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe, have become one of the main global exporters of Islamic militants. Currently on the territory of Syria, and to a lesser extent of Iraq, there are several thousands of foreign fighters from the post-Soviet states. The causes of the war migration from the former USSR states to the Middle East have their roots in the dynamic changes taking place inside Islam in the post-Soviet area: primarily the growth of Salafism and militant Islam, as well as the internationalisation and globalisation of the local Islam. The deep political, economic, social and ideological changes which Muslims underwent after the collapse of the USSR, led to the creation of a specific group within them, for which Islam in its radical form became the main element of their identity. Homo sovieticus, without fully eradicating his Soviet part, became Homo jihadicus who not only identifies himself with the global Ummah, but is also ready to leave his country and join jihad beyond its borders in the name of the professed ideas.

The book of family worship: containing prayers for every morning and evening throughout the year and additional prayers for special occasions /

Includes bibliographical references.

Maimonides and Islam.

"A paper read before the Jews' College Literary Society, January 8th, 1888. Reprinted from the Jewish chronicle."

The encyclopaedia of Islam : a dictionary of the geography, ethnography and biography of the Muhammadan peoples /

Mode of access: Internet.

The supernatural in the tragedies of Euripides as illustrated in prayers, curses, oaths, oracles, prophecies, dreams, and visions

Bibliography: p. 105-106.

A quest for souls : comprising all the sermons preached and prayers offered in a series of gospel meetings, held in Fort Worth, Texas, June 11-24, 1917 /

7th ed.

Readings and prayers for aid in private devotion /

Includes index of first lines of poems and hymns.

Holy living and dying; with prayers: containing the complete duty of a Christian. To which is prefixed a memoir of the author.

Mode of access: Internet.

The ingenious and diverting letters of the Lady--travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humours, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people.

"Reprinted for Archer M. Huntington."

The ingenious and diverting letters of the Lady's ----- travels into Spain. Describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people ... The 7th ed. With the addition of a letter of the state of Spain, as it was in the year 1700.

Errors in paging: nos. 269-272 are omitted, 285-288 duplicated.

Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" /

This books investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the colonial empires. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.