Under an Islamic government, then Ahl al-Kitāb must pay a special tax, called jizyah, they can bear arms to defend themselves against external enemies as well as receive protection from a Muslim army, and they can govern themselves according to their own sacred law. Alternatively, the word ...
This year, that word is manifest! "Manifest" has been picked as Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year for 2024. Popstar Dua Lipa and world-famous gymnast Simone Biles have both spoken about manifesting their own s...
Meanwhile, in the two millennia following their exile by the Romans, other populations, mostly Muslim and Arab, inhabited the region that became known as Palestine, calling it their home. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire took control of...
and the day after, as I sat in the Luxembourg Gardens, beguiled from my work by the pretty April sunlight and the birds in the alley (I have spoken already of these things), as I sat admiring them, a thought of Mildred sprang into my mind...
1. The word “key” in the passage is closest in meaning to O frequent O essential O original O familiar The Egyptians were not far behind in developing writing, but we cannot follow the history of their writing in detail because they used a perishable writing material. In ancient times th...
modemlinguisticsregardsthespokenlanguageasprimary,notthewritten.Traditional grammarians,ontheotherhand,tendedtoemphasize,maybeover-emphasize,theimportanceof thewrittenword,partlybecauseofitspermanence.Then,modemlinguisticsdiffersfrom traditionalgrammaralsointhatitdoesnotforcelanguagesintoaLatin-basedframework. 4.Ismodem...
S. Krauss, an indispensable source book for everything that has to do with the sex life of nations, we read that in a certain German region it is commonly said of a woman who has just been delivered of a child, “Her oven has caved in.” The making of a fire and everything ...
“beautiful soul” at mid-life animates this remarkable breviary of the “inner workings” of a life lived bravely (“The beautiful plate I cracked in half as I wrapped it in tissue paper — // as if the worship of a thing might be the thing that breaks it”) in the face of the ...
and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely of the latest great war but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. ...
This brings us to one of the problems the Muslim community faces when it comes to marriage and relationships: a stark denial of the realities of life. A denial not found in the Classical Islamic Sources, but imported from a kind of cultural squeamishness that characterises certain Muslim groups...