IS Takes to Ancient Strategy as Battle for Mosul Looms 

Edit Voa News 01 Oct 2016
IS fighters are using the ancient tale - a highly significant religious moment for many Muslims around the world - to rally followers worldwide via internet posts and social media accounts ... ... “War is coming and the survival of the caliphate will depend on the steadfastness of Mosul in confronting the infidels,” the preacher, a man in his 30s, told worshipers in the Umar ibn al-Khattab mosque in Mosul’s Nahrawan neighborhood ... ....

The Declaration of Afzalul Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent

Edit Kashmir Observer 01 Oct 2016
Although it is almost seventy years since the last partition of the Subcontinent disquieting chasms remain on account of the partial knowledge not just of the partition, but in the recognition of the activities of important participants, of communities, of belief systems in the struggles for Independence ... Further, in Mr ... What Mr ... Ibn Khaldun in his philosophical work Muqqaddimah observed,” Untruth naturally affects historical memory... ....

My Historical Novel Is Coming Soon!

Edit Medium 01 Oct 2016
1 ... A whirlwind journey into the furthest depths of ancient historymedium.com ... It’s like Shapur time-traveled to Rome from the future ... An army led by Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattāb captured city after Sasanian city throughout the mid-600s; and by 651, the remains of the knightly and priestly aristocracy fled, in despair, into the vastness of the Central Asian steppe-land.It’s often been said, though, that no one truly captures Persia ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... ....

Stock Futures Flatten; India Issues Fall On Pakistan Strikes

Edit Investors Business Daily 29 Sep 2016
Stock futures trimmed early losses to trade nearly flat ahead of Thursday's open, as global markets pulled generally higher and investors awaited a heavy slug of early economic news. Futures for the Dow industrials, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 all traded a fraction above fair value. In Motion. Apple, Ebay, Alibaba ... Shares eased from a Sept ... ET ... premarket trade, with India's Icici Bank (IBN) down 4% and Tata Motors (TTM) off more than 3%. ....

The beauty of Daagh

Edit The Hindu 29 Sep 2016
A poetry that does not turn on unsettling questions may shape the narrative imagination of those who want to enjoy the tales of their quirks and triumphs wrapped in evocative idiom ... A prominent scholar and poet Dr ... Several other short story writers like Baigh Ehsas Hameed Suharwardi, Moinuddin Jeenabade, Mohammad Zaman Azurdah , Ibne Kamual, Rizwanul Haq and Qamar Jamali presented their stories ... Keywords....

Prudential plc announces the successful domestic listing of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited ("ICICI Pru Life") (Prudential plc)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. Prudential plc). 29 Sep 2016. Prudential plc announces the successful domestic listing of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited ('ICICI Pru Life') Initial public offering ('IPO') priced at top of the pricing range at Rs ... The price is equivalent to a multiple of 3.4 times embedded value ... ICICI Bank Ltd (NYSE.IBN) is India's largest private sector bank with consolidated total assets of US$ 139 billion at June 30, 2016....

Removal of the heart: how Islam became a matter of state in Iran

Edit The Guardian 29 Sep 2016
Some academics argue the Safavid Shahs gave Iranian Shia a rule-fixation and abandonment of spirituality it has never lost ... And yet this was a turning-point in Iranian history, with repercussions up to the present day ... Twitter ... Khomeini’s lifelong interest in erfan – ‘intimacy with God’ – reflected a personal mysticism that fuelled his interest in Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) and Mullah Sadra (1571-1640) as well as the poets Rumi and Hafez ... ....

GLOBAL BIOENERGIES :First production of isobutene from wheat straw at the industrial pilot scale

Edit Nasdaq Globe Newswire 28 Sep 2016
Evry, France and Planegg, Germany, Sept ... This result demonstrates the maturity, the complementarity, and the versatility of the two proprietary processes ... Global Bioenergies continues to improve the performances of its process, operates its industrial pilot, is completing the construction of its demo plant in Germany, and prepares the first full-scale plant through a Joint-Venture with Cristal Union, named IBN-One ... Follow us on Twitter....

First production of isobutene from wheat straw at the industrial pilot scale (Global Bioenergies SA)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
(Source. Global Bioenergies SA) ... Clariant has produced the wheat straw hydrolysate, rich in non food/non feed second generation sugar, in its Straubing facility in Germany ... Clariant's ... Global Bioenergies continues to improve the performances of its process, operates its industrial pilot,builds its demo plant in Germany, and is preparing the first full-scale plant through a joint venture with Cristal Union, named IBN-One ... @GlobalBioenergi....

The October hot list: Dubai Design Week, Ani:me Abu Dhabi, and more

Edit The National 28 Sep 2016
From exhibitions and auctions to fashion, film and food fests, here's our roundup of all that's interesting in the month of October. newslide. October 1. Sharjah Art Foundation spaces ... These artists are international superstars ... newslide. October 1 and 2 ... newslide ... The event runs at World Trade Center Mall in Abu Dhabi from October 19 to 26, with the same films screening in Dubai at the Ibn Battuta and ­Festival City malls a day later ... ....

In Saudi Arabia: Can It Really Change?

Edit The New York Review of Books 28 Sep 2016
But a crucial deal was made ... But for all his talk of theme parks, the only one near completion is Diriya, the reconstructed town outside Riyadh where his forefathers and the founder of the Wahhabis, Ibn Abdel Wahhab, sealed their pact in 1744 ... Dar al-Razi, a publishing house in Amman, Jordan, published his book, Preacher Not Prophet, a refutation of the “corrupting” tenets of Wahhabism’s founder, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab....

Teenager charged with selling drugs near Newark school, police say

Edit NJ dot com 27 Sep 2016
Ibn Waller, 18, of Newark, was arrested Friday at the intersection of North 9th Street and 4th Avenue ... Ibn Waller, 18, of Newark, was arrested Friday at the intersection of North 9th Street and 4th Avenue, ......

Minister of Defence Receives Dr. Kamal Hassan Ali

Edit All Africa 27 Sep 2016
[SNA] Khartoum -The Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen, Awad Mohamed Ibn-Auf, Monday received at his office Dr. Kamal Hassan Ali, who appointed lately as the Deputy Arab League's Secretary General and the official who is responsible for the national security sector at the league ... ....
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