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epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Karen Armstrong

4 ISLAM TRIUMPHANT IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500-1700) The discovery and exploitation of gunpowder led to the development of a military technology that gave rulers more power over their subjects than before. ...
( Category: Islam July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

The Dome of the Rock, built by Caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691. By restoring the Temple Mount and erecting the first major Islamic building there, Muslims expressed their ...
( Category: General July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

THE BOOK OF GENESIS GENESIS 1¶1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ¶2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of ...
( Category: Old Testament July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

A spiritual vacuum had also opened up in India, and new sages worked energetically, even desperately, to find a fresh solution. By the late fifth century, the doctrine of karma, ...
( Category: Sociology May 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong

A spiritual vacuum had also opened up in India, and new sages worked energetically, even desperately, to find a fresh solution. By the late fifth century, the doctrine of karma, ...
( Category: Sociology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

vi The Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE) Hitherto in our historical survey, we have concentrated on the major intellectual, spiritual and social revolutions that forced human ...
( Category: Folklore March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong

4 ISLAM TRIUMPHANT IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500-1700) The discovery and exploitation of gunpowder led to the development of a military technology that gave rulers more power over their subjects than before. ...
( Category: Islam March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

In the Netherlands, a Jewish philosopher had developed an atheistic vision that was at once more radical yet also more religious than either Descartes’ or Locke’s.35 In 1655, shortly after ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS in the United States would eventually launch a counteroffensive against the modernity that had defeated them, but during the period currently under discussion, they concentrated, like Haredi Jews, ...
( Category: Fundamentalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

THE SEVENTH STEP How Little We Know Quite early in my career, I was struck by a footnote in a book referring to the “science of compassion” that should characterize ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

* * * 7 - The God of the Mystics Judaism, Christianity and - to a lesser extent - Islam have all developed the idea of a personal God, so ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Karen Armstrong

the flowering trees bloomed; the fruit trees were weighed down by the burden of their fruit; the trunk lotuses bloomed on the trunks of trees . . . The system ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

5. Desiring This Man’s Gift and That Man’s Scope The English department at Bedford College, located in a Regency house beside the Regent’s Park lake, was a haven of quiet ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

The Tree of the Sefiroth Some Kabbalists saw the sefiroth as the limbs of primordial man as originally intended by God. This was what the Bible had meant when it ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 25,2014 )

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