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The Iberian crusaderism and the end of Pax Islamica in the Indian Ocean
No full textThe Christian European corsairs andpirates cruised against Muslim sea merchants in the Indian
Ocean with the spiritual blessing of the powerful churches in Portugal, Spain, Netherlands,
England and France. Their conquests ofthe prosperous Muslim seaports in the Indian Ocean
were authorized by the royal courts ofthe new western powers and the militant religious orders
The Iberian sea rovers were formidable rogues of western Christendom waging the first
global naval anti-Islamic crusade in the new Era ofGunpowder. The commercial interests of
Islamic states were extensively damaged by Portuguese and Spanish intercontinental prowlers
who operatedfrom hidden harbors ofsmall oceanic islands located between the southern coasts of
Africa and Malay Archipelago. The Protestant English and Dutch 'Honourable and Grandest'
Companies ofEast India trading spices, emerged as the most powerful enterprises from the
oceanic war ofattrition against the equally acquisitive Portuguese, French and Spanish seafaring
'papists '. While he Malay sea trade and Gujarati costal trade suffered substantial loses, it was the
South Arabia which lost its dominant role in the oceanic commerce. Arabia Felix became 'Ireland'
of the Islamic South in the Golden Age ofEuropiracy.
The author examines the historical geography ofclash ofreligions and economies in the Maritime
Afrasia
The fall and holocaust of Andalusian Muslims (1490-1614 CE/896-1023AH) : lesson of history which always will be repeated if it is not learned or became neglected
Get PDFThe Holocaust of Muslims ofAI-Andalus is one of the darkest pages of history of thc Christian Europe and simultaneously one of the most tragic periods in the history of the Islamic West. This era of the planned, sustained and
systematically executed policy of total eradication of Islam from the southwestern Europe was authorized by the "Renaissance" popes and the European Roman-Catholic monarchs after the surrender of the last Muslim state of
Granada in 1492 CE/897A
Orientalism Revisited: Bernard Lewis’s School of Political Islamography
No full textThis paper aims at examining the writings of a group of “political Islamographists" mainly headed by Bernard Lewis, who are engaged in promoting the idea of "Islamic threat" to the Western civilization. Since this group includes the most venerated counselors of the American and British political establishment on the Middle Eastern affairs, their post-modern Islamography has radically changed the contemporary relations between the Islamic revivalists and the Western powers
The Failure of Muslim Reformation: "Jadidism" in Eastern Europe, 1699-1922
Get PDFThe advent of Western influence has led to a number of responses in the Muslims, one of them being an attempt to "reform" Islam-Jadidism. This study examines the influence (lf such movements from the early eighteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, in eastern European countries, particularly relating to Polish, Crimean, Turkish and Tatar Muslims. It is shown that all such attempts resulted in cultural decay, and loss of identity and power
The Ancestry and Ethnic Milieu of the Caucasian Muslim Nokhchis (Chechens)
No full textThe Ancestry and Ethnic Milieu of the Caucasian Muslim Nokhchis (Chechens
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