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  • noun historical A native sovereign of Hyderabad, India.

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Hindi; ultimately from Arabic nazama, "arrange, govern".

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  • In his magnum opus, the fifteen-hundred-page Call for Global Islamic Resistance, which Suri released to the Internet in 2004, he formalized his concept into the slogan “nizam la tanzim”—“a system, not an organization”—meaning that there should be no organizational bonds between the “Resistance fighters” who are bound together only by their common ideology: defeating the supposed enemies of Islam.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In his magnum opus, the fifteen-hundred-page Call for Global Islamic Resistance, which Suri released to the Internet in 2004, he formalized his concept into the slogan “nizam la tanzim”—“a system, not an organization”—meaning that there should be no organizational bonds between the “Resistance fighters” who are bound together only by their common ideology: defeating the supposed enemies of Islam.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In his magnum opus, the fifteen-hundred-page Call for Global Islamic Resistance, which Suri released to the Internet in 2004, he formalized his concept into the slogan “nizam la tanzim”—“a system, not an organization”—meaning that there should be no organizational bonds between the “Resistance fighters” who are bound together only by their common ideology: defeating the supposed enemies of Islam.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • In his magnum opus, the fifteen-hundred-page Call for Global Islamic Resistance, which Suri released to the Internet in 2004, he formalized his concept into the slogan “nizam la tanzim”—“a system, not an organization”—meaning that there should be no organizational bonds between the “Resistance fighters” who are bound together only by their common ideology: defeating the supposed enemies of Islam.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Will have to make you read the whole things again to find out! nizam - look forward to your pics and thanks for taking them fiona - thanks.

    Winning Wimmin! Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: "readings", abror rivai, bernice chauly, nizam zakaria, raja ahmad, ruhayat x, zedeck siew posted by bibliobibuli at 4: 11 PM

    Archive 2005-06-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: "readings", arahmaini, bernice chauly, darling muse, kam raslan, malaysian authors, nizam zakaria, rahmat harun, zedeck siew posted by bibliobibuli at 6: 23 PM

    Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • November 14, 2005 3: 33 PM bibliobibuli said ... starlight, erna - yep, exactly ... nizam - me too! and the tantric one ... what the hell is wrong with someone wanting to write about tantric sex and the rest of it? kak teh - many thanks!

    Nice One Cecil! Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: "readings", leon wing, nizam zakaria posted by bibliobibuli at 4: 51 PM

    Archive 2005-09-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: "readings", arahmaini, bernice chauly, darling muse, kam raslan, malaysian authors, nizam zakaria, rahmat harun, zedeck siew posted by bibliobibuli at 6: 23 PM

    A Surfeit of Readings Sharon Bakar 2005

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