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epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Stephen Schwartz
FIVE CENTURIES PASSED BEFORE the appearance of a figure even more threatening to Sufism than Ibn Taymiyyah. By then the world of Islam was obviously weakened by Western advances. An ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
ISLAMIC SOCIETY: THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE It is essential to distinguish between the ideal society described in the Quran and Hadth and historical Islamic society. ...
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World
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-11 | Author:Bernard Ellis Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill & Buntzie Ellis Churchill
Honor Killing and Mutilation At a time when European opinion and comment were predominantly hostile to Islam, the great Hungarian Jewish orientalist Ignaz Goldziher devoted much time and effort to ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |zho | 2008-09-29 | Author:ibn Munqidh, Usama [Usama, ibn Munqidh,]
§ Another Example of their Medicine Another example of their wondrous medicine was related to us by William de Bures,246 lord of Tiberias and a man with some standing among ...
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History
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Lewis, Bernard
The term commonly used by the ancient Arabs for the offspring of mixed unions was hajin, a word which, like the English “mongrel” and “half-breed,” was used both of animals ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Lesley Hazleton [Hazleton, Lesley]
Talha and Zubayr were both dead by noon. Talha had taken command of the cavalry and fought valiantly. He might even have prevailed if he had not been shot in ...
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World
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Fuller, Graham E. [Fuller, Graham E.]
Proudly, [the Orthodox Church] points to a 1,005-year-old tradition of faith, liturgy, music, saints and iconology. While that does not necessarily make it a state church, many within Orthodoxy see ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |deu | 2014-10-14 | Author:Jeffrey Einboden
III The pejorative portrait of Islam implied in this poetic opening to Hellas reflects Shelley’s personal sympathies, but also his political purpose. As Jacqueline Mulhallen notes, the “avowed purpose of ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Sonn, Tamara;
Conclusion Ibn Khaldun’s analysis of the rise and fall of nations is brilliant. It became a classic of historiography. And his articulation of the source of strength of Islam is ...
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Islam
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Strong, John S.
8.6 Meeting the Buddha/s in the Vajrayāna All of the buddhas of the pure lands and all of these bodhisattvas, in addition to many others, are known in the Vajrayāna ...
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Buddhism
March 11,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:
4 See especially Mises's Socialism (1922), trans. J. Kahane (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1981). 5 Adam Ferguson , An Essay on the History of Civil Society (London, 1767), 187. 6 ...
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Philosophy
March 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Jon Gjerde [Gjerde, Jon]
Perhaps the most significant outcome of the battle for the conversion of the West was the failure to create a homogeneous society amid an ever more heterogeneous immigration. It became ...
( Category:
History
March 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Toby Green [Green, Toby]
( Category:
Sociology
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:William Stoddart & Joseph A. Fitzgerald [Stoddart, William & Fitzgerald, Joseph A.]
68 An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism is seen as a dimension of knowledge, and the Bodhisattva is the very incarnation of this. Amongst the many celestial Bodhisattvas are Avalokiteshvara (the ...
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World
March 11,2018 )
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