रंगीला रसूल [Rangeela Rasul]

रंगीला रसूल १९२० के दशक में प्रकाशित पुस्तक है जो लाहौर के राजपाल एण्ड सन्स ने प्रकाशित की थी। इसके लेखक 'चामुपति एम ए' या किशन प्रसाद प्रताब नामक आर्यसमाजी थे किन्तु लेखक का नाम प्रकाशन ने कभी नहीं बताया। यह पुस्तक बहुत विवादास्पद सिद्ध हुई। इसमें पैगम्बर मुहम्मद के विवाह एवं सेक्स जीवन का रोचक ढंग से वर्णन किया गया है। यह पुस्तक मूलतः उर्दू में छपी थी किन्तु बाद में इसका हिन्दी संस्करण भी प्रकाशित हुआ। यह पुस्तक आज तक भारत, पाकिस्तान और बांग्लादेश में प्रतिबन्धित है।

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कौन कहता है अकबर महान था ? - पी एन ओक

कौन कहता है अकबर महान था ? यह पुस्तक श्री पुरुषोत्तम नागेश ओक जी द्वारा लिखी गई वो सच्चाई है जिससे बहुत से लोग परिचित नहीं होंगे, एक बार जरुर पढ़े और साँझा करे ..

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The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power

In this authoritative analysis, Alison Pargeter follows the twists and turns of the Muslim Brotherhood as it battled through the years of oppression under authoritarian regimes to finally become a key and legitimate political actor. 

From Egypt and Syria to Tunisia and Libya, the Brotherhood and its afiliates are now faced with the complex task of transforming themselves from semi-clandestine opposition movements into legitimate political actors and, in some cases, into ruling powers. This is a fully updated edition with a new chapter covering the Arab Spring and subsequent parliamentary and Presidential elections in Egypt,and featuring revised introduction and conclusion.

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Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research

The role of women in Islamic societies, not to mention in the religion itself, is a defining issue. It is also one that remains resistant to universal dogma, with a wide range of responses to women’s social roles across the Islamic world. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the editor of this volume has assembled the latest research on the issue, which combines contemporary with historical data. The material comes from around the world as well as from Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. 

It takes in work from majority Muslim nations such as Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey, as well as countries with troubled interfaith relations such as India and Israel. Nations with minority Muslim populations such as France, the UK, Canada and Australia, are also represented. The work also features varying Islamic sub-groups such as the two main ones, Sunni and Shi’a, as well as less well known populations such as the Ismaili Muslims. In each case, the work is underpinned by the very latest socio-theological insights and empirical data.

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Building Afghanistan's Security Forces in Wartime: The Soviet Experience

Security force assistance is central to the counterinsurgency campaign of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. The outcome will hinge on the effectiveness of the assistance provided to the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, and other security forces. This report provides an overview of Soviet efforts to improve and facilitate the training and development of Afghan security forces.

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The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality.

Hazleton’s account follows the arc of Muhammad’s rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the outsider become the ultimate insider?

Impeccably researched and thrillingly readable, Hazleton’s narrative creates vivid insight into a man navigating between idealism and pragmatism, faith and politics, nonviolence and violence, rejection and acclaim. The First Muslim illuminates not only an immensely significant figure but his lastingly relevant legacy.

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अब भी न जागे तो (Ab Bhi Na Jaage To) (मौलाना आचार्य शम्‍स नवेद उस्‍मानी)

जिस पुस्‍तक ने उर्दू जगत में तहलका मचा दिया था और लाखों भारतीय मुसलमानों को अपने हिन्‍दू भाईयों एवं सनातन धर्म के प्रति अपने द़ष्टिकोण को बदलने पर मजूर कर दिया था, उसका यह हिन्‍दी रूपान्‍तर है, 

पुस्‍तक के लेखक हैं - महान सन्‍त एवं विद्वान मौलाना आचार्य शम्‍स नवेद उस्‍मानी के धार्मिक तुलनात्‍मक अध्‍ययन पर आधारित , धार्मिक तुलनात्‍मक अध्‍ययन के जाने माने लेखक और स्वर्गीय सन्‍त के प्रिय शिष्‍य एस. अब्‍दुल्लाह तारिक, स्वर्गीय मौलाना ही के एक योग्‍य शिष्‍य जावेद अन्‍जुम (प्रवक्‍ता अर्थ शास्त्र) के हाथों पुस्तक के अनुवाद द्वारा यह संभव हो सका है कि अनुवाद में मूल पुस्‍तक के असल भाव का प्रतिबिम्‍ब उतर आए इस्लाम की ज्‍योति में मूल सनातन धर्म के भीतर झांकाने का सार्थक प्रयास हिन्‍दी प्रेमियों के लिए प्रस्‍तुत है.

नि: शुल्क डाउनलोड करें

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Hinduism under Threat!

Hinduism under Threat!

1. Mass Conversions

2. Destruction of Hindu Institutions

3. Vote Bank Politics

4. Hindu Apathy and Ignorance

5. Solutions

-15,018 persons converted in single day in Ongole

-10,000 churches planned in 2005 alone, by just one group,

the Seventh Day Adventists.

Kyle Fiess, Maranatha (Org for building churches) marketing director reports:

"We were astonished when Ron Watts (head of Seventh Day Adventists) presented us with a proposal for 10,000 churches in India…After many experiences like the one in Ongole, we no longer consider 10,000 churches to be an unrealistic goal, but an unparalleled opportunity”.

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भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम

भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम 

( Bharat Me Islamikaran Ke Chaar Charan by Purushottam)

मुझे लोगो से उस समय तक लड़ने का ( अल्लाह से ) आदेश हुआ है कि जब तक वह यह सत्यापित न करने लगे के अल्लाह के अतिरिक्त कोई दूसरा उपास्य नहीं है, मुझे अल्लाह का पैगम्बर न मानने लगे और उस सब में भी विश्वास न करने लगे जो मेरे द्वारा प्रकट किया गया है. (मौहम्मद  प्र. 45)

वही है (अल्लाह) जिसने अपने सन्देश वाहक (मौहम्मद) को सत्य मत ( इस्लाम) देकर पथ प्रदर्शन के लिए भेजा है जिससे वह उसे सभी दूसरे मतों पर विजय बनाये भले ही मूर्ति पूजक उसका कितना ही विरोध क्यों न करें. ( कुरआन 9:33)

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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations.

Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.

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Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nationalism, based on a trenchant critique of theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm and Anthony Smith.

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Shri Guruji And Indian Muslims

The cultural nationalism has been a central theme in Indian social and political discourse since late 19th century. A galaxy of thinkers, spiritual personalities and philosophers, which included people like Rajaram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Maharshi Aurovindo, B. C. Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, B. G. Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Bankim Chnadra Chatterjee, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Dr K. B. Hedgewar, V. D. Savarkar, Swami Dayananda, M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), K. M. Munshi , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, made enormous contributions to the evolution of idea and debate on it in the modern historiography. They differed with each other on many accounts and on their approaches to outline and define the contours of Indian nationalism but all of them largely concur that the cultural foundation gives shape to Indian nationalism. 

All of them perceived patriotism as a spiritual and cultural rather than a material concept. It is obvious from elevation of the country as ‘Mother’ and ‘Goddess’ by them. Moreover, the acceptance of Bankim’s Vande Mataram as a patriotic and inspiring song in the collective conscience of the people itself tells that nation has been given higher status than religions and community’s identity. Mother India becomes the most inspiring and living deity irrespective of sects, philosophies, religions and regions. 

However, there has been a notable absence of Muslims from such debate. Their hostility to this concept is very remarkable in the trajectory of Indian nationalism. Yet it is also not untrue that there are scattered instances of Muslim thinkers and literary figures who reinforced the idea of cultural nationalism. However, the Islamic religious discourses precluded such thinkers to sustain their ideology or lead to synthesis between indigenous ancestral culture and Islamic faith. Consequently, this could not turn it into an ideology of Muslim masses and remained confined to their personal conviction. The Muslim discourse has not only been predominantly based on pan Islam but also on the hostility to indigenous culture as a rival ideology and tradition.

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Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was to be enforced in the twentieth century. Drawing on examples from the whole 'abode' of Islam, from the Philipines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to South Africa,Gervase Clarence-Smith ranges across the history of Islam, paying particular attention to the period from the late 18th century to the present. 

He shows that "sharia-minded" attempts to achieve closer adherence to the holy law restricted slavery, even if they did not end it. However, the sharia itself was not as clear about the legality of servitude as is usually assumed, and progressive scholars within the schools of law might even have achieved full emancipation over the long term. The impact of mystical and millenarian Islam was contradictory, in some cases providing a supportive agenda of freedom, but in other cases causing great surges of enslavement. The revisionist Islam that emerged from the 18th century was divided. "Fundamentalists" stressed the literal truth of the founding texts of Islam, and thus found it difficult to abandon slavery completely.

"Modernists,' appealing to the spirit rather than to the letter of scripture, spawned the most radical opponents of slavery, notably Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the Islamic William Wilberforce. Once slavery had disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social divisions that have plagued Western societies in the aftermath of abolition. In this important new book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on this neglected topic, thereby contributing to healing the religious rifts that threaten to tear our world apart in the 21st century.

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Homosexuality in Islam - Scott Kugle

The first book length treatment to offer a detailed analysis of how Islamic scripture, jurisprudence, and Hadith can accommodate a sexually sensitive Islam. Numerous scholars and commentators maintain that the Qur'an and Hadith rule unambiguously against same-sex relations. This pioneering study argues that there is far more nuance to the matter than most believe.

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Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries - Paul Fregosi

Jihad, the Muslim holy war against Christians and others, has raged for 1300 years with bloody conquests in Europe dating from campaigns to convert the infidels in the 7th century to today's random acts of terrorism in the name of Allah. Yet this huge unrecorded 'hole' in European history has been censored and stifled by political and literary authorities who have feared reprisals from angry Muslims trying to hide a legacy of brutality vastly more bloody and six times longer in duration than the atrocities of the crusades. 

This is the engrossing factual account of the immense and little-known Islamic military invasions of Europe, and the major players who led them, beginning around 650CE. The Islamic Arabs (and later the Moors) occupied a number of the Mediterranean Islands, and invaded Spain and Portugal in 711CE, and ruled over much of the Iberian peninsula for the next 800 years. France was attacked and invaded, as was Italy, and the European coasts all the way to Ireland and Iceland. The Muslims swept over the Balkans, besieged Vienna, and were intermittent masters of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary into the 19th century, destroying the Byzantines, taking Constantinople (turning it into Istanbul). Ambitious and unrelenting, the Muslims also sought to conquer Austria, and Russia. In a bright and brisk narrative, Paul Fregosi's unique and provocative work is the first, and only, general history of the Jihad, the most neglected and disregarded phenomenon in European history.

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Why I Am Not a Muslim - Ibn Warraq

Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by sceptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.

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भारतीय मुसलामानों के हिंदू पूर्वज मुसलमान कैसे बने

इस्लाम में धर्मांतरण के मुख्य साधन थे म्रत्यु भय या परिवार को गुलाम बनाये जाने का भय, आर्थिक लोभ   ( पारितोषिक, पेन्शन, लूट का माल ) धर्मान्तरित होने वालों के मूल धर्म में प्रचलित अंध विश्वास और अंत में इस्लाम के प्रचारको द्वारा किया गया प्रभावशाली प्रचार....

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