Bernard Lewis at 90 Historian or Fabricator? Bernard Lewis at 90 By Reuel Marc Gerecht Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 ARTICLES The Weekly Standard Publication Date: June 5, 2006 It is often said that the United States isn’t easy on its scholars and public intellectuals–that they are not accorded the prestige and respect that they are given in…
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Understanding Al Qaeda By Frederick W. Kagan Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 NATIONAL SECURITY OUTLOOK AEI Online Publication Date: November 16, 2005 This essay is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. November 2005 Victory in war, and particularly in counterinsurgency wars, requires knowing one’s enemy. This simple truth, first stated by Sun Tsu more than two millennia…
Tablighi Jamaat: Jihad’s Stealthy Legions by Alex AlexievMiddle East QuarterlyWinter 2005 Every fall, over a million almost identically dressed, bearded Muslim men from around the world descend on the small Pakistani town of Raiwind for a three-day celebration of faith. Similar gatherings take place annually outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Bhopal, India. These pilgrims are no ordinary Muslims, though; they…
Sayyid Qutb A Lesson In Hate How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war By David Von Drehle Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains. Greeley, Colorado,…
القسطنطينية “إسلام بول” أي “دار الإسلام”، ثم حُرفت واشتهرت بـ “إستانبول” عاصمة الإمبراطورية الرومانية خلال الفترة (330 – 395) وعاصمة الدولة البيزنطية (395 – 1453). تعد القسطنطينية من أهم المدن العالمية، وقد أسست في عام 330م على يد الإمبراطور البيزنطي قسطنطين الأول، وقد كان لها موقع عالمي فريد حتى قيل عنها: ” لو كانت الدنيا مملكة واحدة لكانت القسطنطينية…