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Author : Rex S. O'Fahey
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810109100
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Enigmatic Saint written by Rex S. O'Fahey and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ANONYMOUS
Publisher : THE PUBLISHER
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Zodiac Killer: Unmasking The San Francisco Bay Area's Most Enigmatic Killer written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the chilling story of the Zodiac Killer in this captivating true crime book. This gripping account takes readers on a journey through the infamous crimes that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s.
Author : Lionel Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780888822024
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The World's Most Mysterious People written by Lionel Fanthorpe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of remarkable and mysterious people, from all ages and places, including our own.
Author : Zackery M. Heern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780744978
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism written by Zackery M. Heern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However, this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East, which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words, the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo-Sufism emerged in reaction to the disintegration and political decentralization of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires. The book specifically highlights the emergence of Usuli Shi‘ism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The long-term impact of the Usuli revival was that Shi‘i clerics gained unprecedented social, political, and economic power in Iran and southern Iraq. Usuli clerics claimed authority to issue binding legal judgments, which, they argue, must be observed by all Shi‘is. By the early nineteenth century, Usulism emerged as a popular, fiercely independent, transnational Islamic movement. The Usuli clerics have often operated at the heart of social and political developments in modern Iraq and Iran and today dominate the politics of the region.
Author : Julia A. Clancy-Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520212169
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Rebel and Saint written by Julia A. Clancy-Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A very fine book—contemporary and sophisticated without being trendy."—R. Steven Humphreys, author of Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry
Author : Abhijit Basu
Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9381836787
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Marvels and Mysteries of the Mahabharata written by Abhijit Basu and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anders Pettersson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110894114
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective written by Anders Pettersson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and launched in 1999, it aims at finding suitable methods and approaches for studying and analysing literature globally, emphasizing the comparative and intercultural aspect. Even though we nowadays have fast and easy access to any kind of information on literature and literary history, we encounter, more than ever, the difficulty of finding a credible overall perspective on world literary history. Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. Even the conceptual basis itself varies from section to section and the genre concepts employed are not mutually compatible. As a consequence, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the interested layperson as well as for the professional student, to gain a clear and fair perspective both on the literary traditions of other peoples and on one's own traditions. The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. The contributions to the four volumes are written in English by specialists from a large number of disciplines, primarily from the fields of comparative literature, Oriental studies and African studies in Sweden. All of the literary texts discussed in the articles are in the original language. Each one of the four volumes is devoted to a special research topic.
Author : Sahar Bazzaz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035393
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Saints written by Sahar Bazzaz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan resistance against French colonization. This book narrates the story of al-Kattānī and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.
Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 070070342X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Rūzbihān Baqlī written by Carl W. Ernst and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruzbihan Baqli is a full-length study devoted to the life and mystical experiences of one of the outstanding figures in Persian Sufism. Although Ruzbihan Baqli (d.1209) was long recognized within the Sufi tradition, it is only within the past few decades that his works have been rediscovered and printed. This study introduces and analyzes the most important sources for the life of Ruzbihan, his own visionary diary (The Unveiling of Secrets) written in Arabic, and two Persian hagiographies written by his great-grandsons a century after his death; and extensive excerpts from these works are presented here in translation. Ruzbihan's diary is filled with visions of astonishing intensity, and it contains remarkable encounters with God, the angels, the prophets and the Sufi saints. This book aims to articulate and describe the structure of mystical experience in Ruzbihan's writings through analysis of his rhetoric of sainthood. Ruzbihan's diary is contrasted with the two biographies devoted to him by his descendants.
Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415123518
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Islam: Islam and social movements written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce B. Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147801282X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader written by Bruce B. Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this reader presents the broad arc of Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam.
Author : Mirabel Osler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837137
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Gentle Plea for Chaos written by Mirabel Osler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.
Author : Edouard Maynial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Casanova and His Time written by Edouard Maynial and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elise Whitlock Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Cathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France written by Elise Whitlock Rose and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elise Whitlock Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cathedrals and Cloisters of ... France ... written by Elise Whitlock Rose and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Farrar
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686867
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World written by Linda Farrar and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each period were designed and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and horticulture is gathered from surviving examples of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual period gardens that have survived the centuries and the wealth of garden myths associated with certain plants. These sources bring ancient gardens and their gardeners back to life, and provide information on which plants were chosen as garden worthy, their setting and the design and appearance of ancient gardens. Deities associated with aspects of gardens and the garden's fertility are featured - everyone wanted a fertile garden. Different forms of public and domestic gardens are explored, and the features that you would find there; whether paths, pools, arbors and arches, seating or decorative sculpture. The ideal garden could be like the Greek groves of the Academy in Athens, a garden so fine that it was comparable with that of the mythical king Alcinoos, the paradise contemplated by the Islamic world, or a personal version of a garden of Eden that Early Christians could create for themselves or in the forecourt of their churches. In general books on garden history cover all periods up to the present, often placing all ancient gardens in one chapter at the beginning. But there is so much of interest to be found in these early millennia. Generously illustrated with 150 images, with plant lists for each period, this is essential reading for everyone interested in garden history and ancient societies.
Author : Laurence L. Bongie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773527935
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (279 download)
Download or read book From Rogue to Everyman written by Laurence L. Bongie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rogue to Everyman chronicles the colourful career of archetypal rogue Charles de Julie, foundling, army deserter, pimp, police officer, underground journalist, poet, and prisoner in the dreaded Bastille. Laurence Bongie reveals both the richly woven tapestry of Ancien Regime social history and a ground-level perspective of everyday material life in eighteenth-century Paris, a city of wit and learning where wealth and luxury were juxtaposed with the most squalid and degrading varieties of human poverty, disease, and crime. Julie knew intimately the sights, sounds, and smells of the French capital, its Opera and playhouses, law courts, narrow dirty streets, hackney coaches, great houses, low taverns, and splendid public gardens. only too well the activities of the capital's rakes, thieves, loan sharks, pickpockets, confidence men, blackmailers, crooked gamblers, and rowdy bullying soldiers, not to mention its twenty or thirty thousand prostitutes - all closely watched by as many as three thousand government spies and the eighteenth-century world's most invasive police network. Julie established close contacts with a number of the capital's leading maquerelles as well as their distinguished clients, and his underground news sheets, lifted mainly from secret vice squad reports, provided a restricted circle of wealthy subscribers with racy accounts of the town's sexual dalliances. His story ends in the dreaded Bastille. Extensive quotations from Julie's writings trace the moral itinerary of a clever, manipulating rogue, spirited liar, thief, poetaster, and libertine.
