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Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad and the Return
AWARDS RECEIVED In addition to being selected a finalist in Foreword Magazine, the book also won the "2005 Distinguished Honor Award" from the Military Writers Society of America. The link can be viewed at www.militarywriters.com/awards.htm Introduction Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad and the Return chronicles a prominent Iraqi Jewish familys escape from persecution, through the journey of one family member, a young boy, who witnesses public hangings and the 1941 Krystallnacht (Farhood) in Baghdad. After a dangerous escape from Iraq akin to a Sephardic Schindlers List, this ten-year-old begins a lifelong search for meaning and his place in the world. This journey takes him to the newly-form...
Abrahamic Monotheism
Saul Silas Fathi was born to a prominent Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq. At age 10, he and his younger brother were smuggled out of Baghdad through Iran and eventually reached the newly formed state of Israel. He began writing a diary at age 11 and had several stories published in Israeli youth magazines. Saul enrolled at the Israel Airforce Academy of Aeronautics, a 4-year program, where he earned his high-school diploma and became certified in electrical engineering. In 1958, he worked his way to Brazil where he nearly starved. Through perseverance and luck, he started his own electrical business and earned a patent for climate-controlled windows used in the building of Brasilia, Brazil. I...
Islamic Leaders
In less than a century after Muhammad's death, Islam swept through Asia, Africa and Europe, dominating an area larger than that of the Roman Empire at its peak. This book represents 3.5 years of effort, researching and editing hundreds of books and internet sources, resulting in an authoritative biography of 420+ Islamic leaders, during the past 1,500 years.
Judaism a to Z
Judaism is originally from Hebrew, Yehudah,"Judah". Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text, 5 books (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, 24 books) and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel. Within Judaism holds that God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and Jewish law are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, and ...
Glossary of Arabic Terms (An Islamic Dictionary)
The Islamic faith is embraced by more than 1.6 billion people, and Arabic is the official language of 22 countries. This edition provides an authoritative list of more than 1,500 definitions of Arabic and Islamic terms.
Full Circle
Chronicles a prominent Iraqi Jewish family's escape from persecution, through the journey of one family member, a young boy, who witnesses public hangings and the 1941 Krystallnacht (Farhood) in Baghdad. After a dangerous escape from Iraq akin to a Sephardic Schindler's List, this ten-year-old begins a lifelong search for meaning and his place in the world. This journey takes him to the newly formed nation of Israel, then to Brazil, and eventually to the United States.
Memories of Eden
According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays an...
Gods and Religions
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Arab-Islamic Groups and Organizations
The Islamic faith is embraced by over 1.6 Billion people. Arabic is the official language of 22 Arab countries; spoken by 400 Million people. The original Qur'an was written in Arabic and the 5 daily prayers must be recited in Arabic by All Muslims, all over the world. T.O.C.: Arab-Islamic groups and organizations Arab-Islamic groups & organizations: A Z (=600+) Caliphs and Caliphates (section #1 = 194) Important Islamic Dynasties (section #2 =249) Islamic Divisions (section #3=262) Muslim population by country (section #4=267) Rightly-Guided Caliphs (section #5 =275) Ruling families (section #6 = 278) Twelver Shi'ia (section #7 = 280) Islam's great accomplishments (section #8 =299) Islamic Charities (section # 9 =319) Bibliography, Recommended reading (section #10 = 332)
Baghdad
In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters 'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' - Sunday Telegraph Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerou...
