Title search results
Showing 141 - 160 of 3110 items
Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
By Michael A. Gomez, Michael Angelo Gomez. 2005
Social history of African Muslims in the Western Hemisphere, beginning with fifteenth-century Latin America. Describes revolts in Brazil, "slaveocracy" in…
the Caribbean, and Islamic societies in the United States. Discusses the influence of Noble Drew Ali, Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam. ALA Black Caucus Award. 2005American Indians and the law: The Penguin Library of American Indian History (Penguin library of American Indian history)
By Colin G. Calloway, N. Bruce Duthu, Bruce Duthu. 2008
Law professor Duthu, a United Houma Indian Nation tribal member from Louisiana, uses court cases and statutes to demonstrate the…
evolution of Native American rights. Highlights inconsistencies in the interpretation of federal and state law even though native tribes are considered sovereign governments under the U.S. Constitution. 2008God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215
By David Levering Lewis, David L Lewis. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning professor pens a seven-hundred-year history of the Islamic presence in Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire.…
Argues that the competition between the Western and Islamic world views is still apparent in twenty-first-century conflicts. Highlights the 732 Battle of Poitiers and the campaigns of Charlemagne. 2008The wonders we seek: Thirty incredible muslims who helped shape the world unabr
By Saadia Faruqi. 2022
In this biographical collection, authors Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz highlight some of the talented Muslim physicians, musicians, athletes, poets,…
and more who helped make the world we know today. A brilliant surgeon heals patients in the first millennium. A female king rules the Indian subcontinent. A poet pours his joy and grief into the world's best-selling verses. An iconic leader fights for civil rights. And many, many more. Throughout history—from the golden age of the empires of Arabia, Iraq, Persia, and India, up to modern day—Muslims have shaped our world in essential ways, with achievements in music, medicine, politics, human rights, literature, sports, technology, and more. Give this book to readers who are excited to learn about the great figures and thinkers in history! The authors introduce their book with a personal letter to the reader, setting out their motivations and hopes for the stories they are telling. The backmatter includes a glossary and bibliography for readers' further research and learning. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobookHezbollah: a short history (Princeton studies in Muslim politics #22)
By Augustus Richard Norton, Augustus R Norton. 2007
International relations professor navigates the complex history of Lebanon's Shia Islam organization Hezbollah. Chronicles its origins as an Iranian-backed terrorist…
organization and its development into a political party, social-service provider, and powerful militia. Discusses ritual, acts of violence, and the influence of Hezbollah in the wider Middle East. 2007Murder in Amsterdam: the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance
By Ian Buruma. 2006
Reporter describes returning to his Dutch homeland after the November 2004 murder of film director Theo van Gogh by a…
second-generation Muslim to examine the crime's social implications. Buruma presents interviews of alienated Muslims and van Gogh's friends to explore divisions in Dutch culture. Strong language and some violence. 2006Warrior woman: a novel : based on the life of Nonhelema, Shawnee woman chief
By James Alexander Thom, Dark Rain Thom. 2004
Fictionalized account of Shawnee women's peace chief Nonhelema, who attempts to negotiate an armistice with both the Americans and British…
during the Revolutionary War. Nonhelema's loyalties are divided as her white allies betray her and she is alienated from her people. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2003Is Islam a religion of war or peace? (At issue)
By Jann Einfeld. 2005
Eleven essays by authors with opposing viewpoints on the nature of the Islamic religion. Includes Osama bin Laden's justification for…
attacking America, President George W. Bush's claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, Pat Robertson's counterargument, and analyses of women's rights. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Coyote warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation
By Paul Van Develder, Paul VanDevelder. 2004
Traces the fight by the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes to protect their North Dakota land that was flooded by…
the post-World War II construction of Garrison Dam. Highlights the work of Yale-educated attorney Raymond Cross, a tribal chairman's son, and his case before the U.S. Supreme Court. 2004Saint Patrick's Battalion: A Novel
By James Alexander Thom. 2006
Private John Riley and scores of fellow Catholic immigrants desert the army and defect to the Mexican side during the…
1846 war. Camp boy Padraic Quinn keeps a diary recalling the prejudice and abuse they suffered at the hands of Protestant officers--and the resulting mutiny. Violence and strong language. 2006Empire of the Islamic world (Great Empires of the Past Ser.)
By Robin S. Doak. 2005
Summarizes the history of the Islamic Empire (632 to 1258) and its lasting contributions to the modern world including the…
guitar, sugarcane, and the Arabic numerical system. Discusses the empire's knowledge and practice of astronomy and mathematics, literature, art, religion, sports, and military science. For grades 6-9. 2005The Beliefnet guide to Islam (Beliefnet guides)
By Hesham A. Hassaballa, Kabir Helminski. 2006
Two Muslims present an introduction to the Islamic religion. Covers its main beliefs represented by the Five Pillars, its founder…
Muhammad, and its holy text, the Qur'an. Also explains the meaning of jihad and discusses gender issues. 2006Black Kettle: the Cheyenne chief who sought peace but found war
By Thom Hatch. 2004
Biography of the nineteenth-century chief who worked to secure survival of the Cheyenne nation. Portrays Black Kettle in the social,…
political, and historical context of America's western expansion. Describes the battles and betrayals leading to his death in 1868 when Lieutenant Colonel Custer attacked Black Kettle's village. Spur Award. 2004No god but God: the origins, evolution, and future of Islam
By Reza Aslan. 2005
Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies reconstructs the origins of Islam from the prophet Muhammad's message of moral accountability…
and social egalitarianism, and its evolution into ideologies of rigid legalism and uncompromising orthodoxy. Discusses Muslims' current struggle to define the future of their faith and argues for reform. 2005Standing alone in Mecca: an American woman's pilgrimage into the heart of Islam
By Asra Nomani, Asra Q Nomani. 2005
Journalist recounts her 2003 pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, on a quest to understand her religion…
and the role of Muslim women in the modern world. Chronicles her journey and return home to West Virginia, where she confronted her own mosque's sexism and intolerance. 2005The rise and fall of North American Indians: from prehistory through Geronimo
By William Brandon, William P. Brandon. 2003
Author of The Last Americans (DB 15432) uses primary sources to narrate the history of the natives of North America…
from ancient times to European contact and subjugation. Discusses the people of Mesoamerica and South America and tales of Puritans, the Trail of Tears, buffalo soldiers, and massacres. 2003Angry wind: through Muslim black Africa by truck, bus, boat, and camel
By Jeffrey Tayler. 2005
Journalist recounts his four-thousand-mile journey across western and central Africa taken between the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the…
2003 invasion of Iraq. Traveling through countries beset by poverty, civil war, corruption, and religious antagonism, Tayler encountered generous and patient people as well as desperation and anti-Westernism. 20051491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann. 2005
Offers conclusions from anthropological and archaeological research about the western hemisphere before European exploration. Examines the evidence of a large…
indigenous population and the ecological impact the people had on the environment through crop modification, landscaping, and farming the rainforest. Discusses the rise and fall of Indian empires. Bestseller. 2005Jihad: the trail of political Islam
By Gilles Kepel, Anthony Roberts. 2002
Professor of Middle East Studies from France theorizes that the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York…
was a consequence of the failure of Islamic fundamentalism to achieve its goals over the past forty years. Analyzes Islamism in Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Bosnia, and elsewhere. 2002Yellow Wolf, his own story: His Own Story
By Yellow Wolf, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter. 2000
Indian warrior's account of the Nez Perce War (1877) as told to his friend, the author, between 1908 and 1935.…
Describes Yellow Wolf's youth, the battle of Big Hole, the savagery of whites, the surrender at Bear's Paw Battlefield, and his life as a fugitive. 1940