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Caliphate / by Kratman, Tom.(CARDINAL)460041;
Subjects: Dystopias.; Fiction.; Islam; Prostitutes; Totalitarianism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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American caliph : the true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC / by Mufti, Shahan,1981-author.(CARDINAL)402926;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-347) and index."The riveting true story of America's first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, D.C"--Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center of Washington, the country's largest and most important mosque, and took hostages there. Two others subsequently penetrated the District Building, a few hundred yards from the White House. When a firefight broke out, a reporter was killed, and Marion Barry, later to become mayor of Washington, D.C., was shot in the chest. The deadly standoff brought downtown Washington to a standstill. The attackers belonged to the Hanafi Movement, an African American Muslim group based in D.C. Their leader was a former jazz drummer named Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who had risen through the ranks of the Nation of Islam before feuding with the organization's mercurial chief, Elijah Muhammad, and becoming a spiritual authority to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like Malcolm X, Khaalis had become sharply critical of the Nation's unorthodox style of Islam. And, like Malcolm X, he paid dearly for his outspokenness: In 1973, followers of the Nation murdered seven Hanafis at their headquarters, including several members of Khaalis's family. When they took hostages in 1977, one of the Hanafis; demands was for the murderers, along with Muhammad Ali and Elijah's son, to be turned over to the group to face justice. They also demanded that the American premiere of Mohammad: Messenger of God: 2014;an epic about the life of the prophet Muhammad financed and supported by the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi--be canceled and the film destroyed. The lives of 149 hostages hung in the balance, and the United States'fledgling counterterrorism forces--as yet untested--would have to respond.
Subjects: Biographies.; Khaalis, Hamaas Abdul, 1921-2003.; Terrorism; Muslims; Mystics.; Khilafat movement.; Hostage negotiations.; Hanafites;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Caliphate : the history of an idea / by Kennedy, Hugh(Hugh N.),author.(CARDINAL)518836;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The first caliphs -- The executive caliphate : the rule of the Umayyads -- The early Abbasid Caliphate -- The culture of the Abbasid Caliphate -- The later Abbasid Caliphate -- Three authors in search of the caliphate -- The caliphate of the Shi'ites -- The Umayyads of Córdoba -- The Almohad caliphs -- The caliphate under the Mamluks and Ottomans -- The twentieth century and beyond.Caliphate is a grand and sweeping history of the caliphate since the death of the prophet Mohammed until the last official caliph in the 13th Century, and its modern incarnations under various Islamist groups today. Contrary to popular belief, Islamic law is not a codified set of legislations, and thus there cannot be one definition of the role of the caliph. Rather, this title has been the subject of serious debate and transformation over time. In Caliphate, historian and Middle East expert Hugh Kennedy lifts the veil on the changing and contested position of the caliph and explores the fascinating succession of various leaders of the Islamic world since the death of the Prophet in 632 until the modern day. Kennedy begins in 7th century Medina, the Prophet Muhammad's city in the Hejaz desert, in the hours following the prophet's death. In the end, Kennedy delves into the modern fate of the caliphate, as the British manipulate the 19th Century caliphs to spur dissent against the Ottomans in the Arab provinces, and Islamist leaders call for the creation of a Muslim caliphate. We witness the emergence of another Abu Bakr as "caliph" in 2014, as Kennedy untangles the twisted and distorted Qur'anic history ISIS uses to justify its barbaric acts. An authoritative new account of the dynasties of leaders who shaped the Arab world, The Caliphate reveals the legacy of one of the most potent political ideas in modern history.
Subjects: Caliphate; Caliphs;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Hunting the Caliphate : America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell / by Pittard, Dana J. H.,author.(CARDINAL)827230; Bryant, Wes J.,author.(CARDINAL)827229;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorism; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Caliph's house / by Shah, Tahir.(CARDINAL)684217;
By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing is as easy as it seems
Subjects: Biographies.; Shah, Tahir.; Travel writers;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 10
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The caliph of Bagdad, being Arabian nights flashes of the life, letters, and work of O. Henry, William Sydney Porter / by Davis, Robert H.(Robert Hobart),1869-1942.(CARDINAL)191235; Maurice, Arthur Bartlett,1873-1946.(CARDINAL)122444;
Subjects: Biographies.; Henry, O., 1862-1910.; North Caroliniana.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Two billion caliphs : a vision of a Muslim future / by Moghul, Haroon,author.(CARDINAL)346112;
1. Yelling at the Converted -- 2. What's the Big Idea? -- 3. Standing for Torah at Sinai -- 4. Anakin Skywalker Is the Devil -- 5. Flood from a Machine -- 6. Twilight of the Idols -- 7. Friends, Romans, Countrymen -- 8. What's Past Is Prologue -- 9. Adam and Eve and Eve and Eve and Eve -- 10. The Fable of the Stable Theocracy -- 11. The Empty Throne -- 12. The Case for the Caliphate -- 13. The End -- 14. Sermon on the Mount -- 15. Why I Am Not a Sufi."With autobiography, theology, and a little comedy, Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam is, where it comes from, and what it could be"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Moghul, Haroon.; Muslims; Islam;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The caliph's splendor : Islam and the West in the golden age of Baghdad / by Bobrick, Benson,1947-(CARDINAL)153382;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index.
Subjects: Hārūn al-Rashīd, Caliph, approximately 763-809.; Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.; Islam; Christianity and other religions;
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Life under the caliphate / by Townsend, Chris(Writer on the Middle East),author.(CARDINAL)631676;
Includes bibliographical references and index.New world order -- The rise of ISIS -- Funding the caliphate -- Law of the land -- Dangerous differences -- Suffer the children -- A world dominated -- Losing ground.ISIS claims to have reinstated the glorious caliphate of old: a time when Islam was at the center of the world, and Islamic law was the law of the land. Many of their practices are considered barbaric by modern standards, but followers of the Islamic State claim their ways are prescribed by righteous ancestors, passed down orally and in written records. Daily life under the caliphate has been turned upside down for those caught in the path of ISIS. Students will learn how ISIS enforces a 1,500-year-old body of laws, what daily life is like for followers of the Islamic State, and what it's like to live under the caliphate for those forced to endure the rule of ISIS.
Subjects: IS (Organization); Caliphate;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The tale of Caliph Stork / by Hort, Lenny.(CARDINAL)753085; Henstra, Friso.(CARDINAL)510121; Hauff, Wilhelm,1802-1827.Geschichte von Kaliph Storch.;
When the Caliph of Baghdad finds himself trapped in the body of a stork, only the evil sorcerer with designs on his throne knows the magic word that will restore the Caliph to his human form.
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Folklore;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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