In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful and may Allah bless His slave and messenger Muhammad and his family and companions and grant perfect peace.
The event of the Georgian Programme, or rather, its result, the situation, has proved to be one of the pivotal tremors which indicate a profound tectonic shift of the continental plates. The landscape is irrevocably altered. As a result of the incursion into Georgia and that tiny country’s political response, everything has changed. The very …
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…she wrote in a letter to the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig: “The smallest fragment of a gold coin, even dust scraped from it, is always gold. But a corner snipped off a hundred kroner note, even half of it – is nothing, of less value than a piece of white paper, which at least you can …
Nothing explains Islamic modernism, the whole rush to Islamic banks, the Islamic state and Islamic democracy, etc., more clearly than this passage by Ibn Khaldun. : 22. The vanquished always want to imitate the victor in his distinctive mark(s), his dress, his occupation, and all his other conditions and customs. The reason for this is …