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Tag Archives: Eliot Weinberger
Rather Reading Reviews (on Decision Points)
Well, I’m glad that I resisted (yet). True, reading Decision Points by George W. Bush might have been a revelation on how the former number one world politician did and still does lie. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had already rebutted … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Afghanistan war, Bill Clinton, Decision Points, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Eliot Weinberger, George W. Bush, Iraq war, memoir, NIE
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Not Everybody’s Darling
Tilman Nagel. Allahs Liebling – Ursprung und Erscheinungsformen des Mohammedglaubens. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, 430 pages The original sources for the detailed descriptions of legends and fairy tales which circulate among both ordinary people in the Islamic world and, for example, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Islam, Religion, Science
Tagged Eliot Weinberger, Hadith, Muhammad, Sharia, Tilman Nagel
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Intercultural Competence
Random House has cancelled the scheduled publication of a novel about the life of Aisha, the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) by Sherry Jones. The prologue of the apparently childish book, “The Jewel of Medina”, which is intended … Continue reading
Posted in Islam
Tagged Aisha, Eliot Weinberger, intercultural competence, Jewel of Medina, Prophet Muhammad, Random House, Sherry Jones
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