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2022/03/25

The Complete Biography of Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) Bilingual Edition English & Indonesia by Muhammad Vandestra - Ebook | Scribd

The Complete Biography of Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) Bilingual Edition English & Indonesia by Muhammad Vandestra - Ebook | Scribd

The Complete Biography of Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) Bilingual Edition English & Indonesia

The Complete Biography of Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) Bilingual Edition English & Indonesia

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The complete biography of Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) or Isa from islamic perspective based from The Holy Quran & Al-Hadits.In Islam faith, Prophet Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary‎), or Prophet Jesus, is understood to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of Allah (God) and al-Masih, the Arabic term for Messiah (Christ), sent to guide the Children of Israel (bani israil in Arabic) with a new revelation: al-Injil (Arabic for "the Gospel"). Jesus is believed to be a prophet who neither married nor had any children and is reflected as a significant figure, being found in the Quran in 93 ayaat (Arabic for verses) with various titles attached such as "Son of Mary", "Spirit of God and the "Word of God" among other relational terms, mentioned directly and indirectly, over 187 times. Prophet Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quran; 25 times by the name Isa, 3rd-person 48 times, 1st-person 35 times, the rest as titles and attributes.

The Quran (central religious text of Islam) and most Hadith (testimonial reports) mention Prophet Jesus to have been born a "pure boy" (without sin) to Mary (Maryam‎) as the result of virginal conception, similar to the event of the Annunciation in Christianity. In Islamic theology, Jesus is believed to have performed many miracles, several being mentioned in the Quran such as speaking as an infant, healing various ailments like blindness, raising the dead to life, making birds out of clay and breathing life into them. Over the centuries, Islamic writers have referenced other miracles like casting out demons, having borrowed from pre-Islamic sources, some heretical, and from canonical sources as legends about Jesus were expanded. Like all prophets in Islamic thought, Prophet Jesus is also called a Muslim (one who submits to the will of God), as he preached that his followers should adopt the "straight path". Prophet Jesus is written about by some Muslim scholars as the perfect man.

In Islam, Prophet Jesus is believed to have been the precursor to Prophet Muhammad SAW, attributing the name Ahmad to someone who would follow Jesus. Islam traditionally teaches the rejection of divinity, that Jesus was not God incarnate, nor the Son of God and, according to some interpretations of the Quran, the death and crucifixion is widely denied and not believed to have occurred. Despite the earliest Muslim traditions and exegesis quoting somewhat conflicting reports regarding death and length of death, the mainstream Muslim belief is that Prophet Jesus (Isa) did not suffer death but was instead raised alive to heaven (sky).

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The Sociology of Islam, The by Tugrul Keskin - Ebook | Scribd

The Sociology of Islam, The by Tugrul Keskin - Ebook | Scribd

The Sociology of Islam, The: Secularism, Economy and Politics

The Sociology of Islam, The: Secularism, Economy and Politics

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The contribution of Islam to world civilization is undeniable, however in the last one hundred years, Muslims have been faced with all the effects and ramifications of modernity, caused by the emergence of global capitalism. What does modernity ultimately mean for Muslims, and how will the historical precepts of Islam meet with changes in our globalized world? To date, most scholars on Islam have tried to understand Muslim societies from historical observation alone; however, this simplistic academic approach does not allow us to understand the entire transformation that has taken place in Muslim societies. Sociological scholarship, on the other hand, argues that it would be difficult to understand Islam without first understanding the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the social structure of Muslim societies which are embedded in the relationship between religion, the economy, politics and society. This book, therefore, will attempt to make a connection between the economic system and its social and political consequences within Muslim societies. To do this, it will examine the role of Islam within Muslim societies in the context of ongoing and increasingly powerful neoliberal economic processes in a globalized world. The Muslim understanding of secularism, modernity, the state, collective identity, immigration, and Islamic political thought and economic life are all shaped by forces of globalization and new market conditions. However, this is a mutually constitutive process, as Islam also influences the West and its perceptions of Islam because of the interdependent relations brought about by the global economy. These interdependencies create social and political transformation on both sides.

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2022/03/09

Challenging the New Orientalism by M. Shahid Alam - Ebook | Scribd

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Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the "War Against Islam" Paperback – January 1, 2007
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Over the past few decades, a new form of Orientalism has been developing. As exemplified by Elie Kedourie and Bernard Lewis, it points to Islam as the West's archenemy. The rise of political Islam and its opposition to Western domination of the Islamic world are seen as evidence of a deep, abiding hatred of all things Western. 
Accordingly, the new Orientalists call for thorough reforms, among them regime changes, wars, and the imposition of 'democracy' on Islamic societies. 

They warn that if the West shrinks from this challenge, the Islamists will surely gain power and destroy the West. 

The essays in this book 'written after 9-11' dispute the new Orientalist presumption of an unchanging Islam, opposed to "Western" values and incapable of adapting to the modern world. 

The not-so-hidden objective of the new Orientalism is to promote acceptance of the US and Israel's imperialist push into the Islamic world as both a security imperative and a civilizing mission. 

Alam argues that the new Orientalist's claim of a categorical split between Islam and the West is based on a biased, inaccurate interpretation of history. While recognizing the political and economic failings of the Islamic world, Alam shows that they are legacies of two centuries of Western imperialism and are shared by all regions at the periphery of the prevailing global capitalism. 

  • If the Islamic world lags behind China and India, it is because of two factors that have given a new edge to Western involvement in West Asia and North Africa: oil and Zionism. 
  • In Alam's view, Israel is a powerful destabilizing force in the region, whose survival depends upon turning the Western-Islamic conflict into a hot war. 

Not surprisingly, many of the new Orientalists are strong partisans of Israel.
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M. Shahid Alam's enterprise of forcing "the legacies of history" into "the daylight of consciousness" in the West is informed by deep understanding of the cultural and economic history of Islamic and European societies, and of influential contemporary scholarship and debate. The analysis is careful and serious, and will be of considerable value to anyone concerned with the crucial and timely issues that Alam addresses, whether they come to agree with his conclusions or not. --Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, MIT, USA

In this original work, Shahid Alam confronts the problem of power with exceptional candor and courage. His is an eminently sane voice that is moral without being squeamish, pragmatic without being defeatist, and Islamic without relinquishing the reins of history. A highly cogent, enlightening and liberating vision of contemporary politics and morality! --S. Parvez Manzoor, eminent Muslim critic, Sweden

In the face of race-baiting, bigotry and official hysteria, M. Shahid Alam offers reason, analysis and genuine compassion for those who have been steamrolled by the imperial machine as it rampages across the globe. This urgent collection of essays proves that clear and courageous writing can still be a powerful force for change. --Jeffrey St. Clair, coeditor CounterPunch.Org


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M. Shahid Alam is Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, Boston. His previous books include Poverty from the Wealth of Nations (Macmillan, 2000) and Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies (Praeger, 1989).


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Farseem Mohammedy

5.0 out of 5 stars A timely collectionReviewed in the United States on January 2, 2008

This is a timely collection of some retrospection why islam and muslims had suddenly become the villain in the mind of the west. The author painstakinly dissected the current arguments and shows that its actually same orientalist veiwpoint that was once obscured all the intellectual thinkings in nineteenth century and before. After the cold war since US needed a new enemy, islam served as a potential candidate thanks to the zionist lobby. After reading Bernard Lewis's "what went wrong" and not being satisfied by his answers, I personally was looking for an explanation of what really went wrong. Dr. Alam explains that in a lucid way how various historico-socio-economic conditions led the demise of the once powerful islamic empire from Cordova to Indonesia. No wonder Dr. ALam is so villified in the media for having the courage to say and unveil the naked truth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A debunking of mythsReviewed in the United States on May 17, 2007

Challenging New Orientalism is more than a mere collection of "dissenting essays." No, this compendium is a lantern, illuminating the truths behind many of the Orientalist myths that have distorted Western perceptions of Islamicate societies. One such claim is that Islam and democracy are mutually exclusive. Armed with a deep understanding of the social sciences and humanities, Alam uses economics, political science, theology, philosophy, and history to combat the arguments made by so many for so long, including such highly-regarded Orientalists as Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, and Thomas Friedman. Meticulously researched and carefully crafted, Alam takes time to first deconstruct popular arguments and pervasive themes, before offering his own, fact-based explanation for how history has shaped the current dialectic between Islam and the West using poetic prose that is easy to follow and difficult to put down. In the end, while the reader may not adopt Alam's view on the current situation, one would hope the reader no longer blindly accepts the view of the Orientalist.

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2022/03/08

What Every Hindu Should Know About Christianity: Venkat, Kalavai: 9781505873429: Amazon.com: Books


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This talk leverages cutting-edge scholarly researches in textual criticism and cognitive sciences to arrive at a reasonable understanding of Christian beliefs. The findings will reveal a hitherto unknown face of Christianity to the rational Hindu. About the Speaker: Kalavai Venkat is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, a practicing orthodox Hindu, and author of the book "What Every Hindu should know about Christianity." Sub-Topics: 0:00 Why Kalavai Venkat wrote the book "What Every Hindu Should Know About Christianity" 1:40 How Christianity destroyed the pagan religions around the world 11:30 Portugese inquisition of Goa and Saint Xavier 13:57 Truth of the Origins of Christianity 19:00 Life of Jesus 22:35 No historical evidence of existence of Jesus 25:00 Alan Dundes' write up 'The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus' analysis 29:40 4th CE is when Christian beliefs became canonized and 'Original Sin' concept in Christianity 31:40 Second coming of Jesus will unleash hell on earth on Non-Believers 34:20 Sermon on the Mount that is glorified by Gandhi and other people who have never understood the purport and meaning of it 35:45 Spiritual differences between Christianity and Sanatan Dharma 42:10 'Waking Up' by Sam Harris is a good write up on Christianity Vs Hinduism 43:15 Saint Thomas coming to India controversy 46:00 Zeal and fanaticism of a neo-convert to Christianity Q&A 49:30 Evidence of Jesus in ancient Jewish Talmud which were all burnt by the Vatican after the Disputation of Paris in 1240 CE? 57:20 Howcome the Blacks still remain Christian despite knowing what the Bible says about black skin? 1:07:00 Christianity before Paul and after Paul? 1:12:00 'Psychology of Prophetism' cites Jesus as historical? What about beyond the Nicene Creed developments like Eckhart Tolle, etc?

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WHAT EVERY HINDU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHRISTIANITY leverages cutting-edge scholarly researches in textual criticism and cognitive sciences to arrive at a reasonable understanding of Christian beliefs. The findings it presents reveal a hitherto unknown face of Christianity to the rational Hindu. It concludes that Christianity originated in a psychotic milieu, Christian beliefs are self-contradictory, and theology invalidates the need to believe. It explores the provocative question of whether Jesus is a myth. It systematically argues that Christianity lacks an ethical framework, 'Herem warfare' is the Christian code of holy extermination, Christian beliefs and practices may cause harm to both Hindus and Christians, and concludes that Hinduism and Christianity cannot coexist. It offers a prescription on and how to engage Christianity and why mutual respect cannot be the precondition for Hindu-Christian engagement.
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Kalavai Venkat is the pseudonym of Karthik Venkataramani, a native of the ancient temple town of Kalavai in South India. He is educated in physics and management and works in technology consulting. He is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, and a practising orthodox Hindu. What Every Hindu Should Know About Christianity is Kalavai Venkat's first in a series of books on religions.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017
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Educational! Eye opener!! How exclusive/predatory beliefs hurt inclusive, pluralistic ethos of Sanatan/Eternal/HIndu Dharma.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye openerReviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021

Definitely highly recommended. Exposes the truth about Christianity by documenting the history past and present


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Great book! gives all the factual and impact of Christian conversions with current day to day references.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is like an Antivirus program that every Hindu needsReviewed in India on June 27, 2017
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This book is like an Antivirus program that every Hindu needs. Though the book is complete in it self it is better to read it in tandem with books by Rajiv Malhotra eg..Being Different. The concept of purvpaksh is beautifully applied. It Throws a bright beam of light for every person of any faith or religion or of Sanatan Dharm to reveal the dangerous Abyss which lies ahead in the darkness in the form of Christianity, Islam and Judaism...the Abrahamic faiths...the faiths that are cause of the world wars and the mad rush for resources resulting in massive ecological disaster.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all interested in freedom of religionReviewed in India on February 12, 2020
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This is a must read for all (not just Hindus) to understand the concepts that lead to aggressive proselytization which has serious societal and other damages. A deeply researched and well argued book which is able to provide a critical fact based analysis.

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