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Shades of Islam

Author : Rafey Habib
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847740995
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Islam written by Rafey Habib and published by Kube Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."—Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill This dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century. Ráfey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

God is Beautiful

Author : Navid Kermani
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745651675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book God is Beautiful written by Navid Kermani and published by Polity. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived, apprehended and experienced by its recipients from the time of the Prophet to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of Muslim sources, from historians, theologians and philosophers to mystics and literary scholars, Kermani provides a close reading of the nature of this powerful text. He proceeds to analyze ancient and modern testimonies about the impact of Quranic language from a variety of angles. Although people have always reflected on the reception of texts, images and sounds that they find beautiful or moving, Kermani explains that Islam provides a particularly striking example of the close correlation, grounded in a common origin, between art and religion, revelation and poetry, and religious and aesthetic experience. This major new book will enhance the dialogue between Islam and the West and will appeal to students and scholars of Islam and comparative religion, as well as to a wider readership interested in Islam and the Quran.

Thinking in Circles

Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134959
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Thinking in Circles written by Mary Douglas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory of the state; Michael W. Doyle on the implications of Kant's political theory for his theory of international relations; and Allen W. Wood on Kant's philosophical approach to history and its current relevance.

Arabic Poetics

Author : Lara Harb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490212
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Poetics written by Lara Harb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history.

The Quran

Author : Fazlollah Nikayin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967473208
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Quran written by Fazlollah Nikayin and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetic Qurʼān

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447055154
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Qurʼān written by Thomas Hoffmann and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Copenhagen.

Approaching the Qur'an

Author : Michael Sells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861546792
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Approaching the Qur'an written by Michael Sells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Qur’an presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or Suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. These early Suras contain some of the most powerful, prophetic, and revelatory passages in religious history, offering the vision of a meaningful and just life that anchors the faith of one fifth of the world’s inhabitants. In addition to these translations, Michael Sells provides an introduction to the Qur’an, commentaries on the Suras, a glossary of technical terms, and discussions of the auditory nature and gender aspects of the Arabic text. An ideal resource for students and interested lay readers, this third edition also includes a new full Sura and associated commentary, a new preface, and a thoroughly updated bibliography.

The Qur'an

Author : Bruce Lawrence
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555849288
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Qur'an written by Bruce Lawrence and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “timely and provocative” biography of Islam’s foundational text: “The history of the book is a map of the world we live in today” (Tribune-Review). Few books in history have been as poorly understood as the Qur’an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur’an is the unmediated word of Allah: a ritual, political, and legal authority; an ethical and spiritual guide; and a literary masterpiece that inspires devotion, passion, fear, and sometimes incomprehension. In The Qur’an, historian and Islamic Studies professor Bruce Lawrence shows precisely how the Qur’an is the embodiment of Islam. He describes the origins of the faith in seventh-century Arabia and explains why the Qur’an is memorized and recited by devout Muslims. Lawrence also discusses the Qur’an’s commentators and doubters and assesses its tremendous influence on today’s societies and politics. Above all, Lawrence emphasizes that the Qur’an is a sacred book of signs that cannot be reduced to a single, obvious message. It is a book that demands interpretation and one that can be properly understood only through its long and storied history. “An important work for those seeking to understand—and defend—Islam.” —Kirkus Reviews

Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521211338
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written by Patricia Crone and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-04-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.

Rumi and Islam

Author :
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1594733716
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Rumi and Islam written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the richness of Rumi’s spiritual tradition—through facing-page commentary that brings his writings to life for you. "This book you are now holding is a selection of what I believe are the best of Rumi’s accounts of the compassionate actions, sayings, and qualities of the Prophet, which include Rumi’s own inspired comments and explanations. It is my hope that you will be surprised and uplifted by the profound wisdom that Jalaluddin Rumi conveys through these stories and sayings." —from the Preface This great Sufi poet and teacher can become a companion for your own spiritual journey. The lyric and wisdom poetry of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi has been an inspiration throughout the Middle East and Asia for over seven hundred years. Recently, it has also become popular in Western countries through translations and interpretive poetic versions in English. But while popular renderings have created the appreciation of Rumi the mystic, there is little understanding today of the religious and spiritual traditions from which the great mystic came. Rumi and Islam—Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses examines not the popularized Rumi of universal love but the Sufi disciple whose works express deep reverence for the Prophet Muhammad. Ibrahim Gamard focuses on Rumi’s place within the Sufi tradition of Islam, as one of the greatest Muslim followers of the Prophet Muhammed, and on the Islamic foundations of his lover-Beloved mystical poetry. By probing verse by verse Rumi’s spiritual teachings, Gamard provides insight into the mystical side of the Qur’an and Islam, a religion that holds a deep love of God at its core. Now you can experience the profound and uplifting wisdom of Rumi even if you have no previous knowledge of Sufism or Islam. This SkyLight Illuminations edition presents the most important of Rumi’s writings, mainly from the Mathnawi, with insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that conveys how his teachings about the nature of love for God and God’s love for us can increase our understanding of Islamic wisdom in the West.

The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism

Author : Mohammad Salama
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474253253
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism written by Mohammad Salama and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication. While the book focuses on Quranic and literary scholarship in twentieth-century Egypt from Taha Husayn to Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, it also engages with an immense tradition of scholarship from the classical period to the present, including authors such as Abu 'Ubayda, Ibn 'Abbas, al-Razi, and al-Tabari. Salama argues that, over the centuries, the Arabic language experienced semantic and phonological shifts, creating a lacuna in understanding the Qur'an and bringing contemporary readers under the spell of hermeneutical and parochial interpretations. He demonstrates that while this lacuna explains much of the intellectual poverty of traditionalist approaches to Quranic exegesis, the work of the modern Egyptian school of academics marks a sharp departure from the programmed conservatism of Islamist and Salafi exegetics. Through analyses of the writings of these intellectuals, the author shows that a fresh look at the sources and a revolutionary attempt to approach the Qur'an could render tradition itself an impetus for an alternative aesthetics-contextual, open, and unfolding.

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period

Author : A. F. L. Beeston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521240158
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period written by A. F. L. Beeston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-03 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

A Perspective on the Signs of Al-Quran

Author : Saeed Malik
Publisher : Saeed Malik
ISBN 13 : 1439239622
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book A Perspective on the Signs of Al-Quran written by Saeed Malik and published by Saeed Malik. This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear in every page of this brilliant work that it was written from a heartfelt perspective. A must read for every student of life, love, spirituality, and of course the Quran."--Whitney Cannon, founder Taleef Collective, Fremont, California.

Selections from the British Classics

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from the British Classics written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Splitting the Moon

Author : Joel Hayward
Publisher : Kube Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847741002
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Splitting the Moon written by Joel Hayward and published by Kube Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splitting the Moon tracks Joel Hayward's intriguing journey into Islam, his fascination with the mysteries of faith, his experiences and observations as a Western Muslim, and his thoughts on the state of the Ummah (Islamic community) today. He writes his poetry to capture events each day in the way that some people keep a diary, both deeply personal and reflective.

The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

Author : Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452011809
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Glorious Koran written by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic translation of the Koran by a convert to Islam In 1930, Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, a Western Islamic scholar and convert to Islam, published this English translation of the Koran, the central religious text of Islam, which the Times Literary Supplement lauded as “a great literary achievement.” The aim of this work is to present to American readers what Muslims the world over hold to be the meaning of the words of the Koran, and the nature of that Book, accurately and concisely, with a view to the requirements of English-speaking Muslims. The first English translation of the Koran by an Englishman who is a Muslim, the Book is here rendered almost literally, and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. Regarded by Muslims as God’s actual words revealed to the prophet Mohammed, the Koran remains the supreme authority of the Islamic tradition. Comprising laws, moral precepts, and narratives, its timeless texts are the inspiration and guide of millions of Muslims. With this remarkably readable and scholarly translation, Pickthall introduces the sacred scriptures of the Koran to Western readers—and provides invaluable and fascinating insight into one of the world’s great religions.

The Art of Reciting the Qur'an

Author : Kristina Nelson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306226
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Reciting the Qur'an written by Kristina Nelson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Muslim faithful, the familiar sound of the Qurʾanic recitation is the predominant and most immediate means of contact with the Word of God. Heard day and night, on the street, in taxis, in shops, in mosques, and in homes, the sound of recitation is far more than the pervasive background music of daily life in the Arab world. It is the core of religious devotion, the sanctioning spirit of much cultural and social life, and a valued art form in its own right. Participation in recitation, as reciter or listener, is itself an act of worship, for the sound is basic to a Muslim’s sense of religion and invokes a set of meanings transcending the particular occasion. For the most part, Westerners have approached the Qurʾan much as scriptural scholars have studied the Bible, as a collection of written texts. The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan aims at redirecting that focus toward a deeper understanding of the Qurʾan as a fundamentally oral phenomenon. By examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qurʾan, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance of Qurʾanic recitation within the world of Islam. Her landmark work is of importance to all scholars and students of the modern Middle East, as well as ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, linguists, folklorists, and religious scholars.