Hello
I am searching for books on topics relating to the Middle East and Islam (I am interested in almost any topic).
Can anyone recommend me titles written by authors who are free-minded, unbiased, reject or at least treat with suspicion the reasoning of the 'War on Terror' and in general dismiss war-mongering, statist and collectivist agendas?
If no suggestions can be made I suppose I will proceed with the mainstream offerings (with due caution).
Thank you very much.
Gerry.
Read the Quran.
http://www.minaret.org/
World War IV: The War on Islamofacism.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
John Ess: http://www.minaret.org/
Thanks John, this looks fantastic.
'The War on Islamofascism' doesn't at all seem to fit my criteria unfortunately.
Thanks all.
Further suggestions would be much appreciated.
http://www.memri.org/
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
As salam alikum,
I think all the human beings are subject to biasedness therefore please do not presume anything I listed below are free from biasedness.
Please encounter to any books with suspicion and critical thinking.
As this blog is of Austrian economic school, all the books and papers listed below are related to economics.
For more general understanding, you may rather goto Youtube and listen to poeple such as Hamza Yusuf says.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKVBgp7hzs
or read the below.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10042607/Towards-Understanding-Islam-Sayyid-Abul-Ala-Maududi
Some of the books about economics.
Old school economic thought
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4977425/Wealth-and-Economy-in-Islam-Yusuf-Qaradawi
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6666847/Economics-Thought-of-AlGbazali
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3943477/The-Economic-System-of-Islam-Taqiuddin-anNabhani-Hizb-utTahrir
New School economic thought
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021621/Handbook-of-Islamic-Banking
About Islamic Finance (The most well-written account of Islamic finance I have ever read.)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13337485/islamic-finance-law-economics-and-practice-cambridge-university-press
Book by Sayyid Qutb (I have not read this book yet. Some says this book is a text book for terrolist and the other characterizes Sayyid Qutb as "John Locke of Islam".)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3295871/Milestones-Special-Edition-Sayyid-Qutb
Eric Margolis' book American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World is a book about it's colonial history. It is also probably talking about current events. If anything, you can look through his archives on lewrockwell.com.