mostly sections and quotes that Islamic State uses to justify their existence and operations), that has emerged, but also a specifically designed world view stretching over and incorporated in many subjects. Take for instance Geography, which ...
Simple: deny men sex in life and promise them unlimited sex in an imaginary Afterlife, if they die in your service. Cunning. Ultimately, what keeps islam’s appalling brutality and savagery going is the promise of unlimited sex after death. Heavenly houris The control of sex is the key to...
but this was a bone of contention among the ulama, and not even all “Islamists” (the scare quotes suggest that I am not persuaded that the term can be defined or is useful) followed
It considers the key stages in the evolution of the written testi-monies of this motif and its pre-modern afterlife. A detailed analysis of four texts inparticular will illustrate the intertwined character of the Gog and Magog motif withinthe tradition of Alexander the Great and Jewish, ...
He holds that those “followers of God” such as Yūsuf ibn Al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzi and Dhū l-Nūn al-Miṣrī used to “gather to mention (yadhkurūn) God and the Afterlife”, which aroused their passions and willingness to “walk, accompanied by a singer chanting poems related to ...