Resurgent Islam And America

Will America wake up to the threat of radical Islam in time? Join Goldmann in a thoughtful analysis of Resurgent Islam's continued war against America. He will explore issues such as: [We need to treat terrorists as soldiers in a war and not criminals. [The Quran says that Jews start wars and are the greatest enemies of Islam. [President Ahmadinejad of Iran, believes the destruction of Israel will trigger the appearance of the Mahdi and that he has a personal role in bringing this to pass. [Both Muslims and Christians teach that Jesus is coming again. They embrace varying views of his coming. His extensive experience in the Muslim world, his intensive study of their society and faith, and his compassion for the Muslim people qualify David Goldmann to write this valuable book. If you seek a better understanding of your new neighbors and of the latest news reports, reading this book is the place to start. WARREN W. WIERSBE, author and conference speaker David Goldmann is an authentic follower of Christ with a great love for the Muslim people and a profound knowledge of Islam. I have pastored for over forty years and this book has given me a better understanding than any other book on the various forms of Islam and its concept on Jihad. The way David relates the challenge of Militant Islam to the end times is Biblically sound. DARREL GABBARD, senior pastor of Dublin Baptist Church, Dublin, OH DAVID GOLDMANN spent 24 years ministering among Muslims in North Africa. He conducts seminars on the Challenge of Islam. He has authored Islam and The Bible: Why Two Faiths Collide.

One of the most important functions of religion is to serve as a basis of identity. This collection of essays by Ali A. Mazrui, a distinguished scholar of Islam, discusses how Islam differentiates Muslims from non-Muslims and affects how Muslims view each other. In the light of the upheaval currently occurring in the Muslim world, this collection provides readers with valuable context for the challenges of modernity and multiculturalism faced by Muslims. In these essays, Mazrui deploys his formidable knowledge of theology, history, and Muslim societies to analyze the theological, historical, and political influences on Muslim identity. In his usual style of comparative analysis, Mazrui draws most frequently in these essays from examples in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Muslim communities in the West. These essays delve into the complexities of Muslim identity and stratification, and provide contributions to key debates on modern Islamic political ideology. These essays will be of interest to readers engaged with Islam, religion, culture, comparative politics and international relations.

With a glossary and a bibliography.

A probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West todayIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic.Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.

The origins and implications of American policy on political Islam.

Examines why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise and offers ways to defuse the intolerance.

McAmis also gives attention to the history of their relationship with Christians - a history that is key to understanding the current state of religious and social life in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Since Muslims and Christians together comprise ninety-four percent of the Malay population, peaceful interaction and cooperation between mosque and church are crucial to realizing the economic and political goals of the entire region.".

America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight isn't just in Iraq and Afghanistan; it's a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world. These three enemies of America are separate, but still cooperate -- and in his stunning new book, Shadow World, Robert Chandler shows how.