sultanates

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

Islamicist scholar Ira M. Lapidus informs us that religious and political life developed distinct spheres of experience that, since the 10th century, governments in Islamic lands were largely secular sultanates, fully differentiated political regimes without any intrinsic religious character, though officially loyal to Islam and committed to its defense.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

While American infrastructure crumbles at home, new construction continues in oil-rich kingdoms, sultanates, and emirates there, courtesy of the Pentagon.

Nick Turse: Twenty-First Century Blowback? As Prospects Dim in Iraq, the Pentagon Digs in Deeper Around the Middle East Nick Turse 2010

The body of Saviors and Survivors is made up of a long meditation on the history of Sudan, including its period as a land of sultanates, its emergence as a British colonial possession, and its having been armed to the teeth during the Cold War.

Joel Whitney: My Interview with the Columbia Professor Who Says There is No Genocide in Darfur -- It's an Environmental Crisis 2009

Most of the area has been sparsely inhabited since the beginning of the century having been a no-man's-land between opposing sultanates.

Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009

In fact as I read the first book Rules of Ascension, I decided he must know a lot about the rules of the Malaysian sultanates and ascension to the monarchy in Malaysia, where the King is - well, sort of - elected...

Write tomorrow's date in your diaries Glenda Larke 2009