A Light from the East
Author: Tony El Khoury
Publisher:
Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781941709870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tony El Khoury
Publisher:
Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781941709870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Freely
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780755600007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-century Baghdad, enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. Through the astrologers, physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and alchemists of the Muslim world, this knowledge influenced western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas and Copernicus and helped inspire the Renaissance and give birth to modern science."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author: Michel Evdokimov
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780809142781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This extraordinary collection of full-page, full-color icons introduces readers, art appreciators, and historians to the spiritual riches of the Byzantine liturgical tradition. Father Michael Evdokimov, a Russian Orthodox priest living in Paris, has presented an icon for each of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Christian liturgical year, as well as for other special moments of prayer. Preceding each icon is a brief commentary explaining its meaning and significance. Furthermore, facing each icon are prayers appropriate for meditation that have been translated by the Monks of New Skete Monastery in upstate New York. In a simple and accessible manner, translator Robert Smith has brought text, prayers, and icons together to show how the beliefs and practices common to Orthodox people everywhere in the world can be appreciated by all. Book jacket.
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1933316225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism that have proved most attractive to Western seekers, it explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions while emphasizing respect amongst the adherents of different faiths.
Author: Abé Markus Nornes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0472902431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a millennia of calligraphy theory and history, Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC cinemas. This includes silent era intertitles, subtitles, title frames, letters, graffiti, end titles, and props. Markus Nornes also looks at the role of calligraphy in film culture at large, from gifts to correspondence to advertising. The book begins with a historical dimension, tracking how calligraphy is initially used in early cinema and how it is continually rearticulated by transforming conventions and the integration of new technologies. These chapters ask how calligraphy creates new meaning in cinema and demonstrate how calligraphy, cinematography, and acting work together in a single film. The last part of the book moves to other regions of theory. Nornes explores the cinematization of the handwritten word and explores how calligraphers understand their own work.
Author: Adolf Deissmann
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015466302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: W Deen Mohammed
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-17
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imam W. Deen Mohammed inherited an organization that was nearly consumed by the cancerous growth of racial hatred and material greed. For nearly five years he has worked and raised his community out the darkness of petty racism and unchecked materialism. He unlocked the mysteries of the allegorical and symbolic teachings of the mystic, Dr. Fard and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.Just as the mythical phoenix bird emerged from its ashes to soar gloriously the heavens, Imam Mohammed transformed the Nation of Islam into the World Community of Al-Islam in the West. A community honored with International respect, admiration and encouragement.
Author: James R. Payton Jr.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0830825940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James R. Payton, Jr. introduces us to Eastern Orthodox history, theology and practice. For all readers interested in ancient ecumenical Christian theology and spirituality, this book is especially open and sympathetic to what evangelicals can learn from orthodoxy.
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 1480461725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Hugo Award–winning memoir is “a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer” (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer). With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings at the same Greenwich Village coffee shop as Bob Dylan and preparing shrimp curry for W. H. Auden and Chester Khalman, who have accepted an invitation that night for dinner, Delany takes a stab at writing science fiction. This young prodigy would complete and sell five novels before he turned twenty-two! (And then have a nervous breakdown . . .) This beautifully written memoir is a testament to a neighborhood where experimentation was a way of life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.