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Author: Matthew S. Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9004364161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Taʾrikh); the Geography (Kitab al-buldan); a new translation of his essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragments.
Author: Matthew S. Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9004364153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Taʾrikh); the Geography (Kitab al-buldan); a new translation of his essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragments.
Author: Matthew S. Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9004364145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Taʾrikh); the Geography (Kitab al-buldan); a new translation of his essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragments.
Author: Hassan Abbas
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0300252056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life and legacy of one of Mohammad’s closest confidants and Islam’s patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings and leadership as fourth caliph, Ali nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether he was supposed to be Mohammad’s political successor—and he continues to be a polarizing figure in Islamic history. Hassan Abbas provides a nuanced, compelling portrait of this towering yet divisive figure and the origins of sectarian division within Islam. Abbas reveals how, after Mohammad, Ali assumed the spiritual mantle of Islam to spearhead the movement that the prophet had led. While Ali’s teachings about wisdom, justice, and selflessness continue to be cherished by both Shia and Sunni Muslims, his pluralist ideas have been buried under sectarian agendas and power politics. Today, Abbas argues, Ali’s legacy and message stands against that of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban.
Author: Matti Moosa
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1988-02-01
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780815624110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites. Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East is a ground-breaking work. These sects whose 'extremism' is essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists.
Author: Justin Marozzi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 1643133853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivaled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity, and forward-looking thinking, in which nothing was off limits.Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first.Marozzi brilliantly connects the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century, and how this world is continuing to change today.
Author: Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0674250265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.
Author: D. Suresh Kumar
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1000204901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ayurveda or "the sacred knowledge of longevity" has been practiced in India and many Asian countries since time immemorial. Interest in Ayurveda started growing all over the world in the late 1970s, following the Alma Ata Declaration adopted by the W.H.O. in 1978. Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges attempts to survey the progress made in this field and to formulate a course of action to take Ayurveda through the new millennium. It also identifies the many stumbling blocks that need to be removed if Ayurveda is to cater to the needs of a wider audience. Features: Newer insights into the history of Ayurveda Regulatory aspects of the manufacture of ayurvedic medicines Industrial production of traditional ayurvedic medicines Quality control The scientific rationale of single herb therapy Biological effects of ayurvedic formulations Optimization of ancient wisdom and newer knowledge Conservation of threatened herbs Nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals from Ayurveda Critical view of Ayurveda in the West Direction for the Ayurveda renaissance Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges describes the strength of Ayurveda and how to usher in the Ayurveda renaissance. This book will be of interest to proponents of Ayurveda and all branches of traditional and alternative medicine. Experts from the fields of medicine, pharmacology, new drug discovery and food technology will also find it useful.
Author: Joseph Salvatore Graziani
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb Yaʻqūbī
Publisher: Islamic History and Civilizati
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9789004401044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"'The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʻqūbī' contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Yaʻqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Taʼrīkh) and his Geography (Kitāb al-buldān). The works also contains a new translation of al-Yaʻqūbī's political essay (Mushākalat al-nās) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Yaʻqūbī's writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production"Cover page 4 of volume 3.
