History

Karen Gray Ruelle and deborah Durland DeSaix

A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews during the Holocaust

Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501 – 1750)

Essays by:

Nurbakhsh

S. H. Nasr

Schimmel

Chittick

Murata

Ernst

The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150 – 1500)

Essays by:

S. H. Nasr

Schimmel

Chittick

Chodkiewicz

Murata

Ernst

Barbara Degorge

This book deals with the political roles of popular Islamic associations like mystic brotherhoods. It provides important insights into the influence of religious associations in the political arenas of the Muslim world.

Muhammad Asad

This first English translation of a long-forgotten work recaptures Muhammad Asad’s (then Leopold Weiss) initial experiences in an unknown and intriguing land where he found a new home and a new sense of belonging. This travelogue starts in the spring of 1922 at the Jerusalem Station. The author then takes us through Cairo, Amman, parts of TransJordan, Palestine, Damascus, and finally Istanbul.

This travelogue was written before he embraced Islam, but he seemed to have a premonition of things to come, he writes:

‘It was as when you enter a strange house for the first time and an indefinable smell in the hallway dimly gives you a hint of things which will happen to you as if they are to be joyful things, and you feel a stab of rapture in your heart.”

Jonathan Glover

This important book confronts the brutal history of the 20th century to unravel the psychological mystery of why so many atrocities occurred—the Holocast, Hiroshima, the Gulag, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and others—and how we can prevent their recurrence. The author finds disturbing similarities in the psychology of those involved with atrocities, yet offers hope that the development of a political and personal moral imagination can empower us to resist all acts of cruelty.

Contents

Never Such Innocence Again

Nietzsche’s Challenge

The Moral Resources: Humanity

The Moral Resources: Moral Identity

The Festival of Cruelty

Answering Nietzsche

Close Combat

The Case of My Lai

The Shift to Killing at a Distance

Bombing

Hiroshima

War and the Moral Resources

Rwanda

The Tribal Trap

Political Containment of Tribalism

Roots of Tribal Conflict

The Capacity to Unchain Ourselves

The Trap of the Trenches

The Home Front

The Stone Has Started to Roll: 1914

Sliding Out of the Trap: 1962

Ways Out

The Trap of Terror

Belief: Ends and Means

Stalinism and the Moral Resources

The Working of the Belief System

Stalinism, Truth and Moral Identity

Mao’s Utopian Project

Overturning the Basket: Cambodia

Utopia and Belief

The Core of Nazism

Obedience and Conformity

The Attack on Humanity

The Erosion of Moral Identity

The Willingness to Believe

Philosophers

Bystanders

Interpreting the Nazi Episode

Some People and Not Others

Ethics Humanized