The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven

Daftary, Farhad; Wasserman, James

doi:10.2307/3087556

Journal of the American Oriental Society

2002

DOI: 10.2307/3087556

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The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven

Farhad Daftary¹,

James Wasserman²

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Modern Jihad : The Islamist Crusade

Napoleoni¹

2003

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This article compares the roots of the medieval Christian Crusades and of the modern Islamist jihad. Focusing on the economics of these two phenomena, the author argues that religion provides a cohesive and convenient identity for a partnership motivated far more by economic factors than by religious fervor. The alliance of the papacy, the nobility, the emerging commercial classes of traders, merchants, and bankers, and the starving peasants of Europe took shape under the banner of the First Crusade as a reaction to the economic hegemony of Islam over the Mediterranean Basin. Similarly, today, religion provides the ideological ground upon which the emerging Muslim classes of traders, merchants, and bankers have built a partnership with the religious leaders and impoverished masses of the Muslim world. This alliance targets the hegemonic domination of the West, strengthened and supported by corrupt Muslim elites and governments. Islamist armed groups, like the Franj knights of the Crusades a thousand years before, are only the vanguard of a war of economic liberation cleverly disguised as a war of religion.

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Modern Jihad : The Islamist Crusade

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The mystery of reincarnation

Nagaraj

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Purushothama

2013

Indian J Psychiatry

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One of the mysteries puzzling human mind since the origin of mankind is the concept of “reincarnation” which literally means “to take on the flesh again.” As the civilizations evolved, beliefs got discriminated and disseminated into various religions. The major division manifested was “East” and “West.” The eastern religions being more philosophical and less analytical, have accepted reincarnation. However, the different eastern religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism have differed in their faith on rebirth. Further, the Islam as well as the most dominant religion of the world, Christianity, having its origin in the west, have largely denied reincarnation, though some sub-sects still show interest in it. Also many mystic and esoteric schools like theosophical society have their unique description on rebirth. This article describes reincarnation as perceived by various religions and new religious movements as well as some research evidence.

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