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Author : Ashraf Ali Thanvi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Heavenly Ornaments written by Ashraf Ali Thanvi and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824094
Total Pages : 1656 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Flower Ornament Scripture written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1993-10-12 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition contains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a glossary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, "Entry into the Realm of Reality."
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913310
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Perfecting Women written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Muslims, is a vital source for those interested in modern Indian social and intellectual history, in Islamic reform, and in conceptions of gender and women's roles. The Bihishti Zewar was written in northern India in the early 1900s by a revered Muslim scholar and spiritual guide, Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (1864-1943), to instruct Muslim girls and women in religious teachings, proper behavior, and prudent conduct of their everyday lives. In so doing, it sets out the core of a reformist version of Islam that has become increasingly prominent across Muslim societies during the past hundred years. Throughout the work, nothing is more striking than the extent to which the book takes women and men as essentially the same, in contrast to European works directed toward women at this time. Its rich descriptions of the everyday life of the relatively privileged classes in turn-of-the-century north India provide information on issues of personality formation as well as on family life, social relations, household management, and encounters with new institutions and inventions. Barbara Metcalf has carefully selected those sections of the Bihishti Zewar that best illustrate the themes of reformist thought about God, the person, society, and gender. She provides a substantial introduction to the text and to each section, as well as detailed annotations.
Author : Doug Batchelor
Publisher : Amazing Facts
ISBN 13 : 9781580190817
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Jewelry: How Much Is Too Much? written by Doug Batchelor and published by Amazing Facts. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone would agree that there's some point where enough jewelry is enough. Well, what is that point? In this book, Doug Batchelor challenges you to find out for yourself what God's Word says on this fascinating subject.
Author : B. B. Abdulla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781692930240
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Timeless Seeds of Advice written by B. B. Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of beautiful and practical pieces of advice from the Quran, the Prophet PBUH and Islam's great scholars on repentance, guidance and purification. This book is designed to serve as a source of hope and strength for those going through difficult times, while providing numerous important pieces of knowledge and guidance for all readers and all times
Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195173048
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Music in American Religious Experience written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students and scholars in American music and religious studies, as well as for church musicians, this book is the first to study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The sixteen essayists' contributions to this book address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.
Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824889525
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary written by Vanessa R. Sasson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewels—and the paradox they represent—are everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time. Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha’s bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lama’s reliquary, known as the “sole ornament of the world”; the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en. Engaging and accessible, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.
Author : Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Heavenly Ornaments written by Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.A.Thanvi
Publisher : Adam Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788174353238
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (532 download)
Download or read book BAHISHTI ZEWAR (Eng.) * written by A.A.Thanvi and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780310769903
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (699 download)
Download or read book The Jesus Storybook Bible Christmas Collection written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the bestselling The Jesus Storybook Bible with over two million copies sold, comes A Christmas Collection, a beautifully illustrated picture book perfect for celebrating the miracle of Jesus' birth. This keepsake book highlights the significance of the Nativity and reaffirms the spiritual meaning of God's most precious gift.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363355
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Author : Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975515761
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Accepted Whispers written by Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486207070
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Stained Glass Christmas Ornament Coloring Book written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brighten your Christmas season by coloring over 100 Christmas ornaments on translucent paper. These hand-colored ornaments produce a striking stained glass effect when hung in a window, on a Christmas tree, from lights, more.
Author : Mary Grace Birkhead
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1418561320
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Pearls from Heaven written by Mary Grace Birkhead and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Word is filled with 'pearls' of discovery. He longs for His children to wear his power, His truth, His promises, His faithfulness and His unwavering acceptance close to their hearts and spirits. Weaving together a beautiful strand from scripture with simple and profound reminders of God's heart of love toward them, women will be reminded that they, too, are precious and unique in His eyes.
Author : Iftikhar Dadi
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807895962
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia written by Iftikhar Dadi and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks at the stunningly diverse artistic production of key artists associated with Pakistan, including Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Zainul Abedin, Shakir Ali, Zubeida Agha, Sadequain, Rasheed Araeen, and Naiza Khan. Dadi shows how, beginning in the 1920s, these artists addressed the challenges of modernity by translating historical and contemporary intellectual conceptions into their work, reworking traditional approaches to the classical Islamic arts, and engaging the modernist approach towards subjective individuality in artistic expression. In the process, they dramatically reconfigured the visual arts of the region. By the 1930s, these artists had embarked on a sustained engagement with international modernism in a context of dizzying social and political change that included decolonization, the rise of mass media, and developments following the national independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. Bringing new insights to such concepts as nationalism, modernism, cosmopolitanism, and tradition, Dadi underscores the powerful impact of transnationalism during this period and highlights the artists' growing embrace of modernist and contemporary artistic practice in order to address the challenges of the present era.
Author : Guillaume Durand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments written by Guillaume Durand and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catholic Church
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781574555431
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (554 download)
Download or read book General Instruction of the Roman Missal written by Catholic Church and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USCCB Publishing, this revision of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) seeks to promote more conscious, active, and full participation of the faithful in the mystery of the Eucharist. While the Missale Romanum contains the rite and prayers for Mass, the GIRM provides specific detail about each element of the Order of Mass as well as other information related to the Mass.
