Caio Marco Antonio was born in Benghazi, Libya. He has spent 20 years of his life in North Africa and in the Sahara Desert, working for an oil company. He lives in Berlin, Germany, and Rome, Italy. This book is a collection of many e-mails, received from different parts of the world. Most of them deal with muslims and their own way of looking at things.

Just in Time is a fiction about social milieu that involves criminality, familial dysfunctions resulting in adulthood substance abuse, prostitution and other antisocial behaviors. Also, it is a narrative of how remnants of fallen regimes from Middle Eastern countries with their accomplices and secret agents survive by launching silent blitz of assassin quad that indulged in provoking various social echelons to out maneuvering their adversaries and Government authorities in a typical under world environment of intrigue and greed. The book narratives have touched on a panorama of Islamic movements that has used unstable governments of the Middle East countries in attempts to install the Caliphates.

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with political, economic, and environmental problems that seem to keep Central Asians from a "better" future. Alongside all the struggles of life, however, are relationships of meaning and wellness that contribute to a "life worth living." Recognizing the struggles of everyday life, contributors to this book explore how people navigate relationships to find meaning, how elders attempt to re-establish morality, and how development workers pursue new futures. Such futures centre around the role of family, friends, and meaningful employment in yielding contentment; and the influence of Islam, ethnicity, and hospitality on community. The first regional collection to take well-being as a frame of analysis, the contributors show how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being inform everyday life in Central Asia. This volume will appeal not only to those interested in Central Asia, but more broadly to anyone concerned with how taking well-being into account better captures the complex realities of life in any region. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person is talking or writing about or addressing in prayer without familiarity with the narrative (oral or written) which introduces that individual to us, so we cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures. In this context we must understand God as the person who “walked in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), and who is continuously referred to in the books of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, as well as the Quran. Further developing ideas presented by the late Fred Sommers in his seminal The Logic of Natural Language, Buckner argues that singular reference and singular conception is empty outside such a context.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed discussion of the interaction of the Hindu mystic tradition and Sufism shows the polarity between the rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the popular Islam in South Asia.

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

This work is translated into 88 languages. On Sale in 234 Regions of the World.. Two countries at war and an ongoing war… Written from a different point of view between 1982-1988, this work tells the effect of the war brought by that period on human psychology. It is the story of people who want to be outside the order, describing the virtue of being human under all circumstances, in which peace and friendship are frequently emphasized. The Edinburgh Night Train, while seeking an answer to the question of hope, also tells us with its endless struggle that no matter what happens, one should learn from war. A wonderful book of friendship that started on the road to Baghdad, showing the whole world that peace is more important than war and that it can be lived in peace. Edinburgh Night Train; it tells about love, friendship, compassion, self-sacrifice and peace in an impressive language.

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries--they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above. The story of this extraordinary place and the people who found purpose and refuge in it is one of hope, human resilience, and above all, the timeless, universal love of literature and the compassion and wisdom it fosters.