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Stories of Piety and Prayer - Deliverance Follows Adversity - Bok av al-Muhassin ibn ?Ali al-Tanukhi - Inbunden

Al-Muhassin ibn 'Ali al-Tanukhi (327¿84/939¿94) lived in Basra and Baghdad. As a judge and man of letters belonging to a family with many connections, he was well placed to record the literary trends of his day. Deliverance Follows Adversity is one of two anthologies he compiled.

The Book of Charlatans - Bok av Jamal al-Din ?Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari - Inbunden

Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Al-Jawbar¿ was well versed in the practices he describes and may have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, the book reveals the secrets of everyone from ¿Those Who Claim to be Prophets¿ to ¿Those Who Claim..

The Book of Charlatans - Bok av Jamal al-Din ?Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari - Häftad

Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Al-Jawbar¿ was well versed in the practices he describes and may have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, the book reveals the secrets of everyone from ¿Those Who Claim to be Prophets¿ to ¿Those Who Claim..

The Epistle of Forgiveness - Volumes One and Two - Bok av Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri - Häftad

Known as \one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature\ (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qari's hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and arrived with some difficulty in Heaven, where he meets famous poets and philologists from the past. In..

The Principles of Sufism - Bok av ?A?ishah al-Ba?uniyyah - Häftad

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic and a prolific poet and writer, she composed more works in Arabic than any other woman before the twentieth century. Yet despite her extraordinary literary and religious achievements, 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah remains largely unknown. For the first time,..

The Essence of Reality - A Defense of Philosophical Sufism - Bok av ?Ayn al-Qudat - Inbunden

A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticismThe Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author ¿Ayn al-Qü¿t, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. This important work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical Islamic philosophy and philosophical..

Arabian Satire - Poetry from 18th-Century Najd - Bok av Hmedan al-Shwe?ir - Häftad

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hij¿¿), the poet ¿m¿d¿n al-Shw¿¿ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, ¿m¿d¿n wrote in an idiom widely referred to as ¿Nabä¿,¿ here a mix of Najd¿ vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, ¿m¿d¿n is mostly concerned with..

Impostures - Bok av al-Hariri - Häftad

One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty rogue¿s tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Ab¿ Zayd..

Impostures - Bok av al-Hariri - Inbunden

One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty rogue¿s tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature.Impostures follows the roguish Ab¿ Zayd..

Kalīlah and Dimnah - Bok av Al-Muqaffa& - Häftad

\A collection of stories designed for the moral instruction and entertainment of readers\--

The Essence of Reality - Bok av Al-Qu& - Häftad

\An exposition of Islamic mysticism by a Sufi scholar\--

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Bok av Abu Rayhan al-Biruni - Häftad

A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments. This book is a new rendering into English of the Arabic translation and commentary of this text..

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Bok av Abu Rayhan al-Biruni - Inbunden

A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali deals with the theory and practice of yoga and the psychological question of the liberation of the soul from attachments. This book is a new rendering into English of the Arabic translation and commentary of this text..

Extraordinary Justice - Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context - Bok av Peter Judson Richards - Inbunden

The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001 aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or \commissions\ for the trial of accused terrorists. This title explains what military tribunals are, and how they function.

The Philosopher Responds - An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century - Bok av Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi - Häftad

Terrorism As Crime - From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond - Bok av Mark S. Hamm - Inbunden

Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.

Orientalism - Bok av Alexander Lyon Macfie - Häftad

In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the \East\ in Western thoughtaccusing its practitioners of misrepresentation, prejudice and bias. An intense debate ensued, involving not only Orientalists but historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary critics, scholars of cultural studies and gender studies as well as the news media. Orientalism: A..

Living Out Islam - Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims - Bok av Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle - Häftad

Documents the rarely-heard voices of Muslims who live in secular democratic countries and who are gay, lesbian, and transgender.

Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition - The Women Warriors of Dahomey - Bok av Stanley B. Alpern - Häftad

The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a `small black Sparta,¿ residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean Amazons to kill them. Originally..

Fixing Patriarchy - Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists - Bok av Donald E Hall - Inbunden

The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the metamorphic nature of Victorian definitions of masculinity..

Africans on African Americans - The Creation and Uses of an African American Myth - Bok av Yekutiel Gershoni - Inbunden

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the eve of World War II, Africans displaced by colonial rule aggrandized the attainments of American blacks, creating an African american myth that played an important role in their religious, political and social life. This myth, while existing in direct contradiction to the intense discrimination faced by black people in the United States, provided Africans with an inspirational model upon which to improve their lives. Africans on African-Americans..

Social Theory - A Historical Introduction - Bok av Alex Callincos - Inbunden

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment saw the birth of an era which sought legitimacy not from the past but from the future. No longer would human beings invoke the authority of tradition; instead, modern societies emerging in the West justified themselves by their success at increasing, through the application of scientific knowledge, human control over the world. Ever since this notion of modernity was formulated it has provoked intense debate. In this wide-ranging historical introduction to social..

Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1900-1914 - The Modernization of Russian Jewry - Bok av Christoph Gassenschmidt - Inbunden

The status of Russian Jewry has long been a subject of intense international interest. The collapse of the Soviet empire resulted in unprecedented access to historical records and has shed new light on the history of the Jewish people within Russia. Central to this history are the early years of the twentieth century, leading up to the Revolution of 1917.At the turn of the century, Jewish liberals in Russia were pursuing traditional strategies aimed at bolstering the position of their people. Among..

Conformity - The Power of Social Influences - Bok av Cass R. Sunstein - Häftad

Bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein reveals the appeal and the danger of conformity We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division¿separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to making sense of living in this fractured world lies in understanding the idea of conformity¿what it is and how it works¿as well as the countervailing force of dissent...

The Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk - Bok av Robert J Brym - Häftad

The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy. In the past 25 years, however, they have become more puzzling. How many of them are there? How strongly so they identify themselves as Jews? How do they perceive antisemetism in their countries? Will they leave, where will they go? Theses ate among the questions that have enlivened the discussions of Jews in rlics known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. they have sparked debate because they have deep..