Az-Zayyāt often felt strong supra-Arab Islamic community emotions in topical contemporary contexts and perpetuated themes about pristine classical Islam from the old pre-World War I type of political pan-Islamism in Egypt. ...

En avril 1996 le pape Jean Paul II a effectué une visite officielle en Tunisie. Après le Maroc, la Tunisie a été le deuxième pays de l’Afrique du Nord où s’est rendu le Souverain Pontife. Dans son discours devant le pape, ...

The Gulf conflict of 1990/1991 was not an incidental event, but the climax in a long chain of events. The deeper causes have their historical, ideological, political, economic and psychological roots. In general, the causes ...

It should be stated at the beginning that the contemporary family in the Islamic World is basically patriarchal, characterized by the domination of the father — head of the family—followed by adult male members in accordance ...

Many authors tried to explore the magic of the desert, but it was only the Libyan Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī who was able to introduce it to the literature on a larger scale. He was born in 1948, and began publishing in the 1970’s. ...

The review of Michael Mc-Kinley (ed.), The Gulf War: Critical Perspectives, Canberra, 194, 201 pp.

Odysseus had already abandoned his young and beautiful wife to begin dangerous travels. He was followed by hundreds of heroes of myths and legends who gave themselves up to the adventures far away from home. But they usually ...

The review of Zohorul Bari, Re-Emergence of The Muslim Brothers in Egypt, New Delhi, 1995, 165 pp.

There are moments in history which proved decisive in shaping the future of nations and as “the most momentous results may follow most insignificant happenings”, Muhammad’s decision to shift his preaching activities first ...

The Bibliography of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Poland (1995).