Sohail hashmi biography of abraham lincoln

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Of the sixteen presidents whose biographies I’ve read so far, none have offered the variety of choices of Abraham Lincoln.

This essay adumbrates the flourishing historiographies of several of these traditions, ranging from the history of military strategies and.

This essay adumbrates the flourishing historiographies of several of these traditions, ranging from the history of military strategies and.

; Sohail Hashmi, "The Sixth Pillar: Jihad and the Ethics of War and Peace in Islam," Ph.D.

He has also written by hand three volumes of “Tareekh E Arabi Adab” (History of Arabic Literature), authored by Dr. Abdul Haleem Nadvi, known.

Hashmi, Sohail H., editor.

See Sohail Hashmi, “Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: The Impact of International Law on Islamic Theory,” in Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads, ed.

Of the dozen Lincoln biographies I read, two were Pulitzer Prize winners, one is the second best-read presidential biography of all time, and six held the distinction of being the definitive Lincoln biography at one time or another.

No president before Lincoln required as much of my time, either – it took me over 3½ months to read all twelve biographies.

Together, they contained nearly 9,500 pages – almost twice as many as the president with the second-tallest stack of biographies in my collection (Thomas Jefferson with about 5,000 pages).

Given this enormous time commitment, it’s fortunate Lincoln was both a fascinating individual and a masterful politician.

His life story is as interesting as anyone’s (president or otherwise), and he proved far more impressive