Category Archives: Islam

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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Begs to Differ

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Muller

Hooman Majd. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ. Doubleday, New York 2008, 271 pages. Pointing every now and then at THE DIFFERENCE in our cultures and civilizations is a necessity. Realizing the differences is a first and necessary step in trying 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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