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Requiem for the Sudan;  War, Drought & Disaster Relief on the Nile

History

J. Millard Burr

Robert O. Collins

Africa

Westview Press

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Land Beyond the Rivers : The Southern Sudan 1898-1918

Yale University Press

Giving to charity is incumbent upon every Muslim. Throughout history, Muslims have donated to the poor and to charitable endowments set up for the purposes of promoting Islam through the construction of mosques, schools, and hospitals. In recent years, there has been a dramatic proliferation of Islamic charities, many of which were created in the declining decades of the 20th century by the infusion of oil money into the Muslim world. While most of these are legitimate, there is now considerable and worrying evidence to show that others have more questionable intentions, and that funds from such organizations have been diverted to support terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda. The authors of this book examine the contention through a detailed investigation of the charities involved, their financial intermediaries, and the terrorist organizations themselves. What they discover is that money from these charities has funded conflicts across the world, from the early days in Afghanistan when the mujahideen (Muslim Warriors) fought the Soviets, to subsequent terrorist activities in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Palestine, and, most recently, in Europe and the United States. This ground-breaking book is the first to piece together, from a vast array of sources, the secret and complex financial systems that support terror.

Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids

The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids

Roderick Nash

SIERRA CLUB.

This is a collection of twenty essays written over forty years between 1962 and 2004 on the Sudan, southern Sudan and Darfur. Four decades of civil war has cost more than two million dead and another six million refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Now, after a decade of ambivalent and frustrating negotiations, a peace agreement between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of the Sudan has finally been signed on 9 January 2005 leaving in its wake a devastated southern Sudan - its infrastructure completely destroyed, its fragile economy in ruins, and its people exhausted after nearly half a century of fierce fighting. Although these twenty essays include such topics as nation-building, the dynamics of racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious identity, the politics of oil, and the legacy of slavery, most of them are concerned with conflict in the Sudan, its participants, and the reasons why and it began and has continued for so long. These essays are presented here in chronological order, the aggregate becomes a unique history of the Sudan's terrible civil war that cannot be found elsewhere. the independent Sudan are woven into the text of each revealing new insights into the history of these tumultuous decades.

Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan

TSEHAI Publishers

In the newest version of his "Problems" books, Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (Topics in World History. Problems in African History, 3) (v. 3)

Markus Wiener Publishers

Updated and enlarged edition 
This collection covers the major problems in the field, including classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. Its themes comprise: Africa and Egypt Bantu Origins and Migration African States and Trade Islam in Africa Women in African Societies Slavery in Africa

Problems In African History: The Precolonial Centuries

Middle East

Markus Wiener Pub

Africa: A Short History

This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This approach is very useful for general readers who seek to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments, and for teachers who plan to supplement this text with primary sources depending on the emphasis of the course. Beginning with the dynasties of the Nile valley, Collins explains the importance of language in identifying the enormous human diversity of the Africans, the evolution of African societies into kingdoms and empires through new social structures, the introduction of Christianity and Islam, and the migrations of various groups. The book then describes the appearance of the Europeans in the fifteenth century and the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. It continues with the brief but traumatic period of colonial rule and the nationalist movements for independence that ensued. Finally, it accounts for the struggles of Africans in recent years, including civil conflict, military dictatorships, and ethnic insurgencies, as the newly independent states of the continent mature. Robert O. Collins, University of California at Santa Barbara, is the author of eighteen books.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

In a completely revised version of his "Problems" book (originally published in 1970), Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of colonial Africa such as: The Partition of Africa;Collaboration or Resistance to European Rule in Africa; Colonial Rule in Africa; Educating the African; Forging a National Identity; and, Exploitation or Development in Africa.

Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (The Problems in African History)

In the newest version of his "Problems" books, Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa such as: Decolonization and the End of Empire; Democracy and the Nation-State; Epidemics in Africa: The Human and Financial Costs; Development: Failure or Success; The African Environment: Origins of a Crisis; and, Return of the Empires?

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (The Problems in African History)

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Requiem for the Sudan; War, Drought & Disaster Relief on the Nile

Land Beyond the Rivers : The Southern Sudan 1898-1918

Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World

The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids

Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (Topics in World History. Problems in African History, 3) (v. 3)

Problems In African History: The Precolonial Centuries

Africa: A Short History

Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (The Problems in African History)

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (The Problems in African History)