Abdel Moneim al-Honi, a former colonel in the Libyan army who took part in the 1969 revolution that brought Qadhafi to power, revealed this week that the Libyan strongman had ordered Sadr killed
Medieval Arab attitudes to Black people varied over time and individual attitude, but tended to be negative. Though the Qur'an expresses no racial prejudice, ethnocentric prejudice towards black people is widely evident among medieval Arabs, for a variety of reasons: Arabs' extensive conquests and slave trade; the influence of Aristotelian ideas regarding slavery, which some Muslim
The Iran-born Lebanese Musa Sadr is well-known today for transforming the Lebanese Shi‘a from an oppressed, marginal group into an influential community that gave rise to the Shi‘a protest movement Harakat al-Mahroumin (Movement of the Dispossessed) and its militia, the Amal Movement. But the other thing Sadr is well-known for is his
KEYWORDS: Sayyid Musa al‑Sadr, religion and the state, the public sphere, secularism, the ShiÝi Left 131 Sayyid Musa al‑Sadr, the Lebanese State, and the Left Rula Jurdi Abisaab Several scholars have studied various aspects of the life and thought of Sayyid Musa al‑Sadr (1928-78), the distinguished Iranian ShiÝi cleric who won much
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