The world will soon see change, this book discusses those changes and covers the end of America, the end of the Arabs, the rise of Europe and the Mahdi's Army who will face them. It outlines this future from both the Islamic and Christian religions and shows how they point towards the same future. Many of Islams major scholars have written works on the Signs of the Hour, in which they have arranged the narrations (ahadith) in the chronological order they understood the events would occur in. The Prophet (saws) said: “The signs shall appear one after the other like the beads on a string follow one another (when the string is cut).” The Signs began to appear in our lifetime and have been following each other one by one, this is clear by the acceptance of most scholars that the minor signs of the hour have all been fulfilled and we are about to witness it’s first major sign. Syria has been mentioned by the prophet (saws) in relation to events that will mark the nearness of the hour. This Book, now in it's 2nd edition and largely expanded, looks at these narration’s and identifies the events the prophet (saws) spoke about, chronologically arranging them to give us the timeline the prophet (saws) intended us to have; Abu Zaid Al-Ansaaree (ra) said, “The Prophet led us in the morning prayer, after which he climbed the pulpit and addressed us until Dhuhr (noon). He descended, prayed 'Asr (the late afternoon prayer), and then climbed the pulpit again, speaking to us until the setting of the sun. He spoke to us about what was and what will be; he informed us (thereof) and made us memorize (that information).” (Ahmad) Hudhayfah (ra) said: "The Prophet stood up one day to speak to us, and told us everything that was going to happen until the Hour, and left nothing unsaid. Some of the listeners learnt it by heart, and some forgot it; these friends of mine learnt it. I do not remember it completely, but sometimes it springs to mind, just as one might remember and recognize the face of a man whom one had forgotten, when one sees him." (Abu Dawud, Muslim) This Book is an entirely new work, dealing with the subject matter from a modern context. Previous works regarding the signs of the Hour have been simple translations of Imam Ibn Kathir's book's with out much being done to update his chronology that is now hundreds of years old and to identify the events he mentioned. This Book takes the accounts of the prophet and identifies them giving an entirely more accurate chronology than was previously possible, from this effort the clearest picture yet emerges of the state of the world and its future, which we have corroborated with multiple sources all essentially saying the same thing. No. Pgs: 418 A4, Approx. Table Of Contents: 1 The Hour Has Cast It’s Shadow 2 From The Prophet’s Time To Ours 3 Signs Of The Hour 4 Syria The Land Of Mercy 5 A Time Frame Between The War In Syria and The Mahdi (r.a) 6 The Era Of The Duhaima (Sep 11th) The Worst Fitnah Before The Dajjaal 7 Ahadith On The Sanctions Of Iraq and The Sanctions To Be Placed On Syria and Then Egypt 8 The Rule Of The Ruwaybidah - The Corruptors Of Society 9 The Khawarij: The Name Of The Most Evil People In Our Time 10 The Events Leading Up To The Emergence Of Imam Mahdi 11 America In Previous Scriptures 12 America The Beginning Of The End 13 The End Of America 14 The People Of The Maghreb and The People Of The East 15 Imam Mahdi and The Great War Armageddon 16 The Dajjaal His Followers and His Place Of Emergence 17 The Trial Of The Dajjaal (Anti Christ) Research Notes and Related Material 1 Human Physiology and It’s Relationship To Baraka 2 What Is The Unseen World and Where Is It: Explaining The Technical Terminology Of The Scholars 3 The Jewish Origins Of The Pashtun and Surrounding Areas 4 Ahadith Not Chronologically Arranged In This Work 5 The 30 Dajjaal’s 6 Nu’aym Ibn Hammad (ra) 7 Methodology: Chronological Order Of Ahadith 8 The Book Of Revelations Continued 9 The End of America Continued 10 The Dream Of the Prophet Daniel: The Ottomans, The British and America 11 Daniel Interprets The Dream Of Nebuchadnezzar 12 Timeline: Modern Islamic History 13 Divide and Conquer: Heretical Separatists In Islamic lands 14 Nationalism Is Created In Egypt 15 The Islamist Call To Westernize The Wests Call To Islamise 16 The Maqasid (Objectives) Of Shariah: A Closer Look 17 Media Snippets 18 Dua

Understanding Political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that led François Burgat to a very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world’s relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of the interactions between personal life-history and professional research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with European and Western societies. An essential continuation of his work on Islamism, Burgat’s unique field research and ‘political trespassing’ marks an overdue challenge to the academic mainstream.

Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.

Assalamu Alaikum, the Madinah Islamic Magazine was created to share traditional Islamic knowledge from our heritage, from a time when Islam surpassed the world in it’s understanding and the fitnah (strife) of today didn’t exist. The Magazine follows a simple structure outlined by Jibril (Gabriel) himself in the hadith of Jibril when He came to teach the Muslims about all the different areas of knowledge our religion entailed. He asked the prophet (saws) four simple question’s so the muslims could hear the prophets replies and understand what the Deen (Islam) was about. Hence each Issue of the Magazine will present articles, primarily taken from my website, SunnahMuakada.wordpress.com written by various scholars, as well as articles from myself regarding these four areas of Knowledge, and at times others. Visit the forum and blog @ http://SunnahMuakadah.com/

A devestating account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, written with the extensive cooperation of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. As readers are taken to the very epicentre of government, this news-making book offers a definitive view of Bush and his closest advisers as they manage crucial domestic policies and global strategies within the most secretive White House of modern times.

Dynamics of an Insurgency. Casts light on the underlying causes and early developments of the civil war.

Note on Methodology -- I. Timeline of Protest and Repression in Syria -- II. Crimes against Humanity and Other Violations in Daraa -- Systematic killings of protestors and bystanders -- Killings during attack on al-Omari mosque and protests that followed, March 23-25, 2011 -- Killings during two protests on April 8, 2011 -- Killings during a protest and a funeral procession in Izraa, April 22-23, 2011 -- Killings during the siege of Daraa and neighboring villages and April 29 protest -- Other incidents of killings in and around Daraa -- Allegations of violence by protesters -- Denial of medical assistance -- Arbitrary arrests, "disappearances" and torture -- Large-scale sweep operations -- Torture and ill-treatment in detention -- Targeted arrests and "disappearances" -- Executions and mass graves -- Effect of the siege -- Information blockade -- Recommendations -- To the Syrian Government -- To the UN Security Council -- To the UN Human Rights Council -- To United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- To the Arab League -- Acknowledgments.

A Kurdish journalist who volunteered as a sniper in the fight against ISIS reveals his story in a “gripping memoir . . . elegantly told” (Publishers Weekly). In 2002, at age nineteen, Azad was conscripted into Iran’s army and forced to fight his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, he deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English. But in 2014, having returned to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad found he would have to pick up a weapon once again. After twenty-one days of intensive training as a sniper, Azad became one of seventeen volunteer marksmen deployed by the Kurdish army when ISIS besieged the city of Kobani in Rojava, the newly autonomous region of the Kurds. Here, he tells the inside story of the Kurdish forces’ bloody street battles against the Islamic State. Vastly outnumbered, the Kurds would have to kill the jihadis one by one, and Azad takes us on a harrowing journey to reveal the sniper unit’s essential role in ISIS’s eventual defeat. Weaving the brutal events of war with personal and political reflection, he meditates on the incalculable price of victory—the permanent effects of war on the body and mind; the devastating death of six of his closest comrades; the loss of hundreds of volunteers in battle. But as Azad explains, these sacrifices saved not only a city but a people and their land. “A propulsive memoir that captures the grim reality of small-scale conflict and reveals the fragmented politics of the Middle East today” (Kirkus Reviews), Long Shot tells how, against all odds, a few thousand men and women achieved the impossible and kept their dream of freedom alive.

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region’s profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals—the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women’s rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.