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Starting with roundtable negotiations in Poland in February and culminating in the fall of the Berlin Wall in November, 1989

Improbably, the major international developments of 1989 were all on display in the headlines of a single day, 4 June.

Judging the significance of any major event is never easy. Inevitably, new events come along to make what once appeared

Judging the significance of any major event is never easy. Inevitably, new events come along to make what once appeared

Judging the significance of any major event is never easy. Inevitably, new events come along to make what once appeared

The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought is an independent non-governmental institute headquartered in Amman, Jordan, whose ultimate purpose

AB 540 (Assembly Bill 540; California Education Code 68130.5) is a bill signed into law in California in 2001 that

The term Abangan is applied to Javanese who identify as Muslims but do not strictly follow the prescribed Islamic practices.

Chairman of the *Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004 and President of the *Palestinian National Authority

The rise of the ʿAbbāsid caliphate was the first fissure in Islamic culture; it would eventually result in the Shīʿī

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (formerly Commission) (ABC) has been defined as the ‘national’ broadcaster in broadcasting legislation since

ʿAbd al-Rāziq's contribution to Islamic political thought is his most enduring, as well as ambiguous, legacy. In 1925, his

Egyptian religious scholar and one of the founders of Islamic modernism. A student of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani at Al-Azhar

whose opinions and convictions were firmly based in the possibility of synthesizing Islam and modernity.

The historical, intellectual, and political

Abdülhamid II, (1842–1918), was the thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan (r. 1876–1909). A profound political and economic crisis brought

Emir of Transjordan between 1921 and 1946 and King of Jordan from 1946 to 1951. The son of *

King of Jordan since 1999, Abdullah II became King after his father, *Hussein bin Talal, altered the

A son of the Sultan of Kedah, the Tunku was educated at schools in Bangkok, Alor Setar, at the Penang

• 374 U.S. 203 (1963) • Vote: 8–1 • For the Court: Clark • Concurring: Brennan, Douglas

Since 1788 and the European colonisation of Australia, the continental population has grown rapidly and national income has increased, making