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By David K. Shipler
"The top and so much finished paintings there's within the English language in this subject." —New York Times
In this huge paintings, widely researched and extra suitable than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that exist among Jews and Arabs which have been intensified through battle, terrorism, and nationalism.
concentrating on the varied cultures that exist part via facet in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the method of indoctrination that starts in colleges; he discusses the far-ranging results of socioeconomic modifications, old conflicts among Islam and Judaism, attitudes concerning the Holocaust, and masses extra. And he writes of the folk: the Arab lady in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli army officer, the Palestinian guerrilla, the good-looking actor whose father is Arab and whose mom is Jewish.
For Shipler, and for all who learn this e-book, their tales and hundreds of thousands of others replicate not just the truth of "wounded spirits" but additionally a glimmer of desire for eventual coexistence within the Promised Land.
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Sulayman as governor when he did because he wanted to humiliate 'Isa, but Muhammad did not do that and continued to treat him highly and to show him respect. In this year Abu Ja'far appointed Muhammad b. Abi al-'Abbas, his brother's son, as governor of al-Basrah, but he asked to be excused, so he was, and he left there for the City of Peace and died there. His wife al -Baghum b. 'Ali b. al-Rabi' shrieked and lamented him . One of the guards struck her with a bridle rein on the posterior, and the servants of Muhammad b.
Sulayman3S was appointed in his place , and he arrived there in the month of Rabi ' I (May z9-June17, 763). In this year also al -Sariyy b. 'Abdallah36 was deposed from Mecca, and 'Abd al -$amad b. 'Ali37 was appointed governor. The leader of the pilgrims in this year was 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad b. 'Ali b. 'Abdallah b. 'Abbas, 38 as is said by Muhammad b. Umar and others. 32. Alid supporters in al-Bagrah. 33. A long-time supporter of the Umayyads , who served on the Byzantine frontier in the early Abbasid period .
See al-Tabari, III, 15, 21 , 48, 55, 92-93, 369, 459; alKind-1, Governors, i 1o; Hamzah,141. For the role of his family in the early Abbasid state, see Kennedy, Abbasid Caliphate, 79-8o ; Crone, Slaves, 188-89. 9z. Paternal uncle of al-Saffih and al-Manyur . He had been active in the Abbasid conquest of Syria and was the leader of the Abbasid force that killed Marwin, the last Umayyad caliph in Egypt. He was briefly in charge of Egypt on two occasions, but most of his career was spent in Syria, where he took over many formerUmayyad properties, and on the Byzantine frontier, where he was an active builder of fortifications.