Category Archives: Islam

The Anointed

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Muller

The messianic demeanor of the presidential hopeful Barack Obama in his “The World that Stands as One” at Berlin’s Victory Column in July 2008 in front of a crowd of 200’000 rejoicing Germans had been criticized both in the US as … Continue reading →

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Najasat-e Ahl-e Kitab

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Muller

Daniel Tsadik. Between Foreigners and Shi’is. Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 2007, 295 pages. When Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from Babylonian Captivity in 539 BCE, some of them did not return to … Continue reading →

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Out of Control

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Muller

When the Holy Father recently (in fact, immediately before the so-called Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27) rehabilitated and welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church the confessing holocaust denier Richard Williamson it was only another provocation of the German … Continue reading →

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Esfahan’s Old City

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Muller

As ever, a visitor of the city of Esfahan is immensely impressed of the Safavid ensemble of the Meydan-e Shah, or how it is also called, the Naqsh-e Jahan (literally, a drawing of the World). The huge square, which is … Continue reading →

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Ya Husayn

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Muller

Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib and his family left Madinah on the 4th of Rajab in the year 60 AH, and reached Makkah on the 4th of Shaban. They stayed there for some time, but they did not complete … Continue reading →

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