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Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
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Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
Remember what we owe to Arab science
It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.

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