“The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State” is a book by Noah Feldman. It was one of the books of the year by “The Economist” in 2008. It is quite good at exploring the historical and modern ...
Today’s popular Islamist movements call for the establishment of the sharia as a crucial plank in their political platform. Given the severity of some of the law’s provisions, why has this call for ...
In the 8th century, a revolution reshaped the Islamic world. The Abbasids overthrew the ruling Umayyad dynasty and seized control of the Islamic Caliphate — one of the largest empires in history. From ...