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Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish practice is to be based on two divinely revealed Torahs, a written one, embodied in the Five Books of Moses, and an oral one, eventually written down in rabbinic literature. Karaites accept as authoritative only the Written Torah, as they understand it, and their form of Judaism therefore differs greatly from that of most Jews. Despite its permanent minority status, Karaism has been an integral part of the Jewish people continuously for twelve centuries. This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the entire story of Karaite Judaism.

Karaites. --- Karaites --- History. --- Jewish pluralism --- Jewish sectarianism --- alternative Judaism

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Since 1979, the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran - the two major powers in the Muslim world - has played a prominent role in shaping Middle Eastern politics. Political in nature yet couched in Islamic rhetoric, this rivalry reflects a desire to ensure regime security and legitimacy while also increasing influence across the Middle East. Since the 2003 Iraq War, the relationship has become increasingly vitriolic, resulting in the emergence of proxy conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. This book argues that to understand regional politics, comprehension of the rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran is essential.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesterhive.com/view/9781526150844/9781526150844.xml

HISTORY / Middle East / Iran. --- Arab Uprisings. --- Foreign Policy. --- Geopolitics. --- International Relations. --- Iran. --- Islam. --- Middle East. --- Rivalry. --- Saudi Arabia. --- Sectarianism.

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This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and punk's intervention in that complex conjuncture.

Music critics. --- Affect. --- Belfast. --- Northern Ireland. --- Oral history. --- Popular memory. --- Punk. --- Sectarianism. --- Segregation. --- Structure of feeling. --- The Troubles.

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"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these brutal Islamic militants--many speaking unaccented English and holding European passports--beheading Western hostages in slickly produced videos? In Isis: Inside the Army of Terror, Syrian journalist Hassan Hassan and American analyst Michael Weiss explain how the terrorists of ISIS evolved from a nearly defeated insurgent group into a jihadi army--armed with American military hardware and the capability to administer a functioning state. Weiss and Hassan, who have both been on the frontlines of the Syrian revolution, have interviewed dozens of experts, American military and intelligence officials, and ISIS fighters to paint the first comprehensive picture of the rise and expansion of America's most formidable terrorist enemy. ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror is destined to become the standard text on a terror group that, unfortunately, shows no signs of going away" --

Polemology --- Iraq --- Syria --- Terrorists --- Terrorism --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- IS (Organization) --- SECTARIANISM -- 323.2 --- Islam. --- IS (Organization). --- Terrorists - Iraq --- Terrorists - Syria --- Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam --- Terrorism - Middle East

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The essays deal with developments during the period from the liquidation of the Judean state to the conquests of Alexander the Great. This was a critical time in the Near East and the Mediterranean world in general. It marked the end of the great Semitic empires until the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D.,decisive changes in religion, with appeal to a creator-deity in Deutero-Isaiah, Babylonian Marduk cult, and Zoroastrianism.For the survivors of the Babylonian conquest in a post-collapse society the issue of continuity, with different groups claiming continuity with the past and possession of the traditions, there developed a situation favourable to the emergence of sects. The most pressing question, however, was what to do faced with the overwhelming power of empire, first Babylonian, then Persian. Finally, with the extinction of the native dynasty and the entire apparatus of a nation-state, the temple became the focus and emblem of group identity.

Judaism --- 296 <08> --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- 296 <08> Judaïsme. Jodendom--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 296 <08> Judaisme--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Judaisme--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- History --- Palestine --- Monotheism. --- Origins of Judaism. --- Sectarianism. --- Temple.