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Eastern Wisedome and Learning

Author : G. J. Toomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198202912
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Wisedome and Learning written by G. J. Toomer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book narrates the extraordinary growth in the study of Arabic in England from the late sixteenth century, when it was almost non-existent, to the end of the seventeenth. By its high point around 1666, England was preeminent among European countries in the study of Arabic. Permanent chairs of Arabic had been established at Oxford and Cambridge, and specialized presses in Oxford and London had produced important Arabic works. In this masterly and original study, Professor Toomer gives the first detailed account of this process, set against the religious and political background in England and in Europe. He shows how trade with the Ottoman Empire and mistrust of Islam influenced the study of Arabic. Finally, he traces the course and causes of the drastic decline in Arabic studies towards the end of the century.

Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577319222
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life written by Alan Watts and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.

Light from the East

Author : Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1933316225
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Light from the East written by Harry Oldmeadow and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism that have proved most attractive to Western seekers, it explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions while emphasizing respect amongst the adherents of different faiths.

The Qur'an

Author : Abdullah Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134102933
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Qur'an written by Abdullah Saeed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much more to the Qur'an than the selective quotations favoured by Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a student-friendly guide to the many ways in which the Qur'an can be read. Designed for both Muslims and Western non-Muslim students, it examines the Qur'an in Western scholarship as well as giving an overview of the rich interpretive traditions from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. This guide is a concise introduction to all aspects of the Qur'an: history, understanding and interpretation, providing: coverage of both pre-modern and modern periods plenty of examples to illustrate key points and aid student understanding summaries, timelines and a glossary.

Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum

Author : Claudia Eppert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136792759
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum written by Claudia Eppert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing

Eastern Wisdom

Author : Zen Master Nissim Amon
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1619847361
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Wisdom written by Zen Master Nissim Amon and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 124 chapters of eastern teachings, containing the foundations of philosophy, ancient wisdom and vision in an accessible way. Most chapters linked to Buddhism, Hinduism and Tao. A book that encourages dialogue and personal research.

Reason and Insight

Author : Timothy Shanahan
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780534505998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Insight written by Timothy Shanahan and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of REASON AND INSIGHT is twofold: first, to provide a comprehensive, multicultural introduction to ethics that includes substantial selections from the main Western and Eastern philosophies and religious traditions, and second, to enable students to explore how these perspectives are applied to a range of contemporary moral problems. Beginning with an engaging, accessible introduction to fundamental metaethical issues, the text then delves into particular ethical theories from both the Western and Eastern traditions. Finally, the relevance of these more abstract concerns is made more concrete in the concluding section that presents current scholarship devoted to applying these theories to pressing moral concerns with which students will be familiar. With REASON AND INSIGHT, students are exposed, in a single text, to all of the most important Western and Eastern moral theories and thereby are encouraged to reexamine critically their own moral perspectives in light of many other historically and/or culturally remote standpoints.

A New Science

Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674048607
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book A New Science written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.

Justifying Christian Aramaism

Author : E. van Staalduine-Sulman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004355936
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Justifying Christian Aramaism written by E. van Staalduine-Sulman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Justifying Christian Aramaism Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman explores how Christian scholars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century justify their study of the Targums, the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible.

Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

Author : John Considine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198832281
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries written by John Considine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education

Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268101299
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education written by Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.

Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought

Author : P. J. Saher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought written by P. J. Saher and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

Author : Denise Spellberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388395
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an written by Denise Spellberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.

Anglican Enlightenment

Author : William J. Bulman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073685
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anglican Enlightenment written by William J. Bulman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J. Bulman provides a novel account of how the onset of globalization and the end of Europe's religious wars transformed English intellectual, religious and political life.

History of Universities

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199262021
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication contains a mixture of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports and bibliographical information making it an indispensable reference for the historian of higher education.

Between Scholarship and Church Politics

Author : John Maddicott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192649442
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Between Scholarship and Church Politics written by John Maddicott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard' in the Church of England - Calvinist believers in the doctrines of grace and predestination, who set themselves against the growing power of the Arminian modernisers within the Church, largely the followers of Archbishop Laud. But Prideaux was also an outstandingly successful head of his Oxford college and made it a home for foreign scholars and students. Devoted to teaching, the writers of numerous books for undergraduates and theology students, and thoroughly involved in his College's everyday affairs, he was a model rector. In this study, John Maddicott addresses at length both with Prideaux's political and ecclesiastical career and his role in the College, while also paying particular attention to his personality, his family life (he was twice married and had nine children), and to his wide circle of relatives, colleagues, and allies. Born the son of a Devonshire yeoman and brought up on a farm on the edge of Dartmoor, he rose to occupy some of the highest offices in the university of Oxford and in the church: a result of his intellectual power, his ambition, his learning and scholarship, and his capacity for hard work. Between Scholarship and Church Politics is as much a study of character as a contribution to the political and church history of early Stuart England.

Johann Heinrich Hottinger

Author : Jan Loop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199682143
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Johann Heinrich Hottinger written by Jan Loop and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.