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86) Failing the crystal ball test: the Carter administration and the fundamentalist revolution in Iran
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A polygamous wife from an Arizona Mormon community describes the beliefs that compelled her to become one of her brother-in-law's numerous wives, the desolate conditions endured by the family on a Mexican ranch, and her eventual escape with her children.
91) Iran
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"In the Islamic Republic of Iran, battle lines are drawn between conservative clerics claiming a God-given right to rule and reformers challenging their authority. This provocative program seeks to understand what happens when a modern state is recreated based on fundamentalist Islamic principles, and whether its society should be open and democratic or oppressed and authoritarian. From Iran's chaotic capital Tehran to its holy city of Qom, Iranians...
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 592
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Publisher
Solomon Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1979, The Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, unleashed the Islamic revolution, and changed the world forever. Three decades later, New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg brings you a groundbreaking documentary film that takes you inside the three most dramatic movements of our time: the radicals, the reformers, the revivalists; explains the implications of each movement, the importance of each leader, not only through the lenses...
95) Faking faith
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
After a humiliating incident involving some bad decisions on her part, seventeen-year-old Dylan discovers the blogs of fundamentalist Christian girls and starts passing herself off as one of them in her own blog, leading her to some unexpected insights about herself and her values.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Has a Christian holocaust begun? A Christian genocide at the hands of Islamic extremists is unfolding in the Middle East. Entire Christian populations have been eliminated, and the ultimate aim of ISIS is to eradicate the world of Christianity. They are well on their way. Thousands of Christians arrive in refugee camps daily as tents can be seen for miles across the countryside of Jordan, N. Iraq and Lebanon. Churches have been demolished, crosses...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about friendship, faith, and alienation, Just Another Jihadi Jane tells the tale of Islamist radicalization from the inside. Two children of Muslim immigrants in England's industrial north--thoughtful Jamilla and rebellious Ameena--become best friends, and find in religion and social media a community as welcoming and encouraging as their public education is estranging. After Jamilla's father dies and her brother marries, the two girls leave...
Author
Series
Control volume 3
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Drawing from the Koran, the hadith, and leaders of fundamentalist groups, identifies the core beliefs that inspire Islamic extremism while debunking commonly held notions about the religion.