Shaker Al-Nabulsi

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Shaker Al-Nabulsi - Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi is a Jordanian Arab author scholar and Muslim reformer. He has authored 32 books and written widely-cited articles on Islam and Arab governments. He is a signatory of the St Petersburg Declaration which advances the creed of Muslim reform to the world.

In an article for the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyasa, he asked why Islamic religious scholars haven't issued a fatwa against bin Laden.

In 2006 he authored an open letter to letter to Saudi King 'Abdallah Ibn 'Abd Al-'Aziz, demanding an investigation into a doctorial dissertation submitted to the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University that named 200 modern Arab intellectuals and authors whom the author accuses of heresy.

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  • Fadwa Clashes with Poetry - A study of the poetry of Fadwa Touqan (1963)
  • Open Endings - A Study in the Literature of Antoine Chekhov (1963)
  • Fire walks on Earth - Essays in Arab Life (1985)
  • A Doctrine of the Sword and of the Neck - A Study in the Literature of Najeeb Mahfooz (1985)
  • The Distance Between the Sword and Neck - A Study in the Saudi Short Story (1985)
  • The Loaf of Fire and Wheat - A Study of Modern Arab Poetry (1986)
  • The Light and the Toy - A Study of the Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1986)
  • The River East - A study in modern Jordanian culture (1986)
  • Settlement Train - A study in the Palestinian compromise (1986)
  • The Earth's Madman - A Study of the Poetry of Mahmood Darwiesh (1987)
  • Snow Pillow - Arabs and American policy (1987)
  • The Brackish Age - The conflict between Arab culture and politics (1988)
  • The Third Culture - Experiences with the Japanese culture (1988)
  • The Wooden Bird - A study in the failure of Arab Education (1988)
  • Saudi's Attainable Future - A Developmental Research (1988)
  • Travail of the Sand - Papers in the development and culture of the Gulf (1988)
  • The Revolution of Heritage - A study in the thought of Khalid Mohammed Khalid (1989)
  • An Attempt to Leave the White Color - Papers on Arab Politics (1989)
  • Unfolding the Memory of a Woman - A Study in the Literature of Ghadah Alssamman (1990)
  • Orbit of The Desert - A Study in the Literature of Abdulrahman Muneef (1991)
  • Stoning with Words - A study of several modern Arab thinkers (1991)
  • Growth of Silence - A Study of Modern Saudi Poetry (1992)
  • Rise of the Palms - A Study of the Poetry of Sa'di Yousif (1992)
  • Splendors of Freedom in the Arabic Novel - A Study in the Literature of Ten Arab Novelists (1992)
  • Aesthetics of Locale in the Novel - A Study in the Literature of Ghalib Halasa (1994)
  • The Jordanian Novel and it's Place in Arab Literature ( A co-written paper) (1994)
  • Songs within Dwellings- The Musical Life of Shiekh Imam Easa (Two Volumes) (1998)
  • Eaten by the Wolf - The artistic life of Naji Al-Ali (1999)
  • The Age of Lolling and Subjects - The cultural scene to Al-Sham region during the Ottoman empire (1999)
  • The Sultan - A political guide for the preservation of rule (2000)
  • Arab Thought in the 20th Century (Three Volumes) (2001)
  • Wealth and the Crescent :The Economic Factors for the Emergence of Islam (2001)

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