The Feather of Simurgh
Author: J. Christoph Bürgel
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780814711026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Christoph Bürgel
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780814711026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780292706071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vol. two is a compilations of five books. Each author describes the cultural background, written sources, and continuing legacy of the major myths, illustrated throughout by archaeological and artistic evidence.
Author: E. J. Brill
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9789004097933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brenda Rosen
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2009-02
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781402765360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mythical creatures that come from the land, sea, air, and beyond your wildest imagination ... -- p.[4] of cover.
Author: Josepha Sherman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 1317459385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.
Author: Mohammad T. Alhawary
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1626165173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Al-'Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad. Al-cArabiyya includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.
Author: Kathryn Babayan
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780932885289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Author: A.C.S. Peacock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1317112687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research has offered insights into individual aspects of Christian-Muslim relations, but no overview has appeared. Moreover, very few scholars of Islamic studies have examined the problem, meaning evidence in Arabic, Persian and Turkish has been somewhat neglected at the expense of Christian sources, and too little attention has been given to material culture. The essays in this volume examine the interaction between Christianity and Islam in medieval Anatolia through three distinct angles, opening with a substantial introduction by the editors to explain both the research background and the historical problem, making the work accessible to scholars from other fields. The first group of essays examines the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, comparing their experiences in several of the major Islamic states of Anatolia between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, especially the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The second set of essays examines encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life. They highlight the ways in which some traditions were shared across confessional divides, suggesting the existence of a common artistic and hence cultural vocabulary. The final section focusses on the process of Islamisation, above all as seen from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence with special attention to the role of Sufism.
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 1164
ISBN-13: 9789004095991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The civilisation of medieval Muslim Spain is perhaps the most brilliant and prosperous of its age and has been essential to the direction which civilisation in medieval Europe took. This volume is the first ever in any language to deal in a really comprehensive manner with all major aspects of Islamic civilisation in medieval Spain.