Related content from HighBeam Research on: Omar, caliph

Mulla Omar Off the Record: The driver for the 'Leader of the Faithful' explains how the Taliban chief got away--and why his car smelled of perfume.(Mohammed Omar, spiritual leader for Afghanistan under the Taliban) (Newsweek)

The Persian Epic of Kings: millennium of the poet Ferdowsi.(CULTURE)(Critical essay) (The World and I)

Restoration of holy shrine complete. (Dome of the Rock) (The Middle East)

Fatwas turn ugly ; The Deoband seminary's obscurantist edicts on women's issues generate more pain and trouble than they resolve. (India Today)

PBS presents: Islam for viewers like you.(Public Broadcasting program 'Islam: Empire of Faith')(Critical Essay) (Middle East Quarterly)

Time to move on; Saudi Arabia and America.(America's troops may be over-staying their welcome in Saudi Arabia?)(Brief Article) (The Economist (US))

The edification of Sir Walter Scott's Saladin in The Talisman.(Critical essay) (Studies in Literature and Language)

Islam: Beyond Stereotypes. (book review) (Whole Earth)

Open Bethlehem Exposes Israel's Systematic Strangulation of the Holy City (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)

Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000 (Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ))