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Philip Pullman, author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, has remarked that "after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing…
we need most in the world." This new collection of Rumi stories fills that need. This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by Rumi, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi, explores the hidden spiritual aspects of everyday experience. Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound Sufi teaching moments. These prose gems open the mystical portal to the world of the ancient mystic. These stories include well-known and popular tales such as "Angel of Death," "The Sufi and His Cheating Wife," "Moses and the Shepherd," "Chickpeas," and "The Greek and Chinese Painters" as well as the less commonly quoted parables: "The Basket Weaver," "The Mud Eater," and "A Sackful of Pebbles." Rumi's voice alternates between playful and authoritative, whether he is telling stories of ordinary lives or inviting the discerning reader to higher levels of introspection and attainment of transcendent values. Mafi's translations delicately reflect the nuances of Rumi's poetry while retaining the positive tone of all of Rumi's writings, as well as the sense of suspense and drama that mark the essence of the Masnavi.Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Wisdom
Par Kahlil Gibran. 2019
One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time shares simple wisdom for living a happy and…
fulfilling life. This book is a collection of Gibran's words on how to live. Here are his thoughts on what it means to live in community and solitude and what gives life meaning, along with his often prescient views on government, organized religion, wealth, and commerce. Gibran's sensibility feels contemporary. He did not recognize any ultimate authority outside of the human soul: "It were wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand and more of each other, whom we may understand." This is the essential Gibran, with 88 selections organized into 5 sections that elucidate answers to the questions that each of us face: Living a Wise Life Community Wisdom Wise Exchange Wisdom from Solitude Wisdom Beyond Words This inspirational gift volume gently guides readers through life’s big issues: meaning and mortality, good and evil, and discovering an authentic spiritual path. Suitable for all gift-giving occasions, it is a book that delights, informs, and inspires.Far from the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian
Par Nicholas H. Evans. 2020
How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves,…
and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority—people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: What evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith? In Far from the Caliph's Gaze Nicholas H. A. Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern India. Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world. Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader—the caliph—since partition, and the believers who live there now and act as its guardians must confront daily the reality of this separation even while attempting to make their Muslimness verifiable.By exploring the centrality of this separation to the ethics of everyday life in Qadian, Far from the Caliph's Gaze presents a new model for the academic study of religious doubt, one that is not premised on a concept of belief but instead captures the richness with which people might experience problematic relationships to truth.This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism…
from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of contemporary states, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, from the colonial period to the global aftermath of September 11. With a concise but analytic style, the book engages one-by-one with the questions of political theory, political geography and political sociology as they relate to international Islam. Its primary empirical investigation is centred on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a powerful pan-Islamic regime, sometimes referred to as the 'Muslim United Nations'. In its theoretical deliberations on Islam and the postmodern condition, the book reconstructs contemporary understandings of how religious ideas and identities influence international politics in the Islamic world.Islam Encountering Globalisation (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series #Vol. 2)
Par Ali Mohammadi. 2002
One of the greatest dilemmas facing Muslims today is the fact that Muslim culture is often seemingly incompatible with the…
culture of the modern Western world, and the features associated with it - technological progress, consumerism, and new electronic communication, all of which have the potential for a homogenizing effect on any culture. This book explores many key aspects of the globalisation process, discussing how Muslim countries are coping with globalisation, as well as considering how the West is responding to Islam.The Future of Islam: A New Edition
Par Wilfred Scawen Blunt. 2002
When it first appeared in 1882, this book was a pioneering work in every respect. It was the first coherent…
study of 'modern' Islam, explaining in a simple and functional manner its tenets and roots, the diversity of its cultural and political experience, and its dynamism and potential for good in the modern world. This was at a time when the Muslim world was perceived by most people in the west as inert and spent, caught in an irredeemable malaise of its own making. Blunt's attitude, shaped by several factors and sharpened by personal knowledge of important parts of the Muslim world and close association with many leading reformers in it, was unprecedented and startling at the time. This new edition includes an Introduction and numerous footnotes, updating statistics, explaining the background to historical events and religious and political figures, and filling in gaps.Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt: Shifting Worlds
Par Mona Abaza. 2002
This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses…
the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity
Par Ian Richard Netton. 2002
The tenth or eleventh century group of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al Safa) are as well known in the Arab world…
as Darwin, Marx and Freud in the west. Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analyzing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Ian Netton traces the influences of Judaism and Christianity, and controversially this book argues that the Brethren of Purity did not belong to the Ismaili branch of Islam as is generally believed.Dynamics of the Earth System: Contributions from Scientific Ocean Drilling (Society of Earth Scientists Series)
Par Dhananjai K. Pandey, M. Ravichandran, Nisha Nair. 2020
This book highlights Indian scientific endeavours and contributions to answering the vast multitude of questions posed by our changing environment.…
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) explores Earth’s history and dynamics using deep ocean drilling platforms to recover the data locked inside seafloor sediments and rocks. Since 2009, Indian scientists have been actively engaged in these expeditions. Scientists from various Earth Science disciplines have seized this opportunity to offer their expertise in order to help unravel the mysteries of the past – by delving deep into the valuable sedimentary records of our oceans. This book presents a compilation of some of their most important findings to motivate and encourage young minds for their enhanced role in the cutting edge science of ocean drilling.Accretion
Par Irfan Ali. 2020
An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla…
and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been retold thousands of times, in thousands of different ways, throughout literature. Against the backdrop of this story, to the sound-track of modern hip-hop, and amid the struggle of an immigrant family to instill an old faith under new conditions, Irfan Ali’s Accretion hurtles towards an unsustainable, “greater madness.” Majnun, one of the foundational literary characters who haunt Accretion, is also an Arabic epithet for “possessed.” In this tradition, Ali has written a book from the places where the self is no longer the self; places where, in order not to shut down forever, the debris must be cleared, and the soul must inch towards love and hope, “on memory’s dusty beams.” Accretion is written in a contemporary lyricism that honours ancient poetic traditions. It is a familiar story, imbued with a particularity and honesty that only Irfan Ali could bring to the table.Women in Islam: The Western Experience
Par Anne-Sofie Roald. 2001
Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in…
Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible.Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Par Miriam Cooke. 2001
This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the…
conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.Atlas of Quaternary Pollen and Spores in China
Par Lingyu Tang, Limi Mao, Junwu Shu, Chunhai Li, Caiming Shen, Zhongze Zhou. 2020
This book provides an important reference guide to pollen and spore identification for Chinese Quaternary palynological studies. Presenting and describing…
more than 400 color photomicrographs of pollen grains and spores retrieved from sediments in China, it offers a unique asset for researchers, graduate students, and newcomers to the field of Quaternary palynology, which constitutes a major aspect of Quaternary paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and paleogeography.The Revival of Islam in the Balkans: From Identity to Religiosity (Islam and Nationalism)
Par Olivier Roy, Arolda Elbasani. 2015
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith.…
An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader European context.Muslim Citizens in the West: Spaces and Agents of Inclusion and Exclusion
Par Nina Markovi. 2014
Drawing upon original case studies spanning North America, Europe and Australia, Muslim Citizens in the West explores how Muslims have…
been both the excluded and the excluders within the wider societies in which they live. The book extends debates on the inclusion and exclusion of Muslim minorities beyond ideas of marginalisation to show that, while there have undoubtedly been increased incidences of Islamophobia since September 2001, some Muslim groups have played their own part in separating themselves from the wider society. The cases examined show how these tendencies span geographical, ethnic and gender divides and can be encouraged by a combination of international and national developments prompting some groups to identify wider society as the 'other'. Muslim and non-Muslim scholars and practitioners in political science, social work, history and law also highlight positive outcomes in terms of Muslim activism with relationship to their respective countries and suggest ways in which increasing tensions felt, perceived or assumed can be eased and greater emphasis given to the role Muslims can play in shaping their place in the wider communities where they live.This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community…
and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).Secular Institutions, Islam and Education Policy: France and the U.S. in Comparative Perspective (St Antony's Series)
Par P. Mattei, A. Aguilar. 2016
Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge…
in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? This book explores how French society is divided along conflicts about religion, increasingly visible in public schools, and shows the effect that this has had.Figuring Out Fossils (Searchlight Books - Do You Dig Earth Science?)
Par Sally M. Walker. 2013
Fossils give us a window to the past. Water, sediments, and pressure work together over time to preserve the shape…
of things that lived long ago. Studying these ancient plants and animals tells us more about our own existence. Have you ever searched for fossils? Unearth some in this book.Women’s Employment in Muslim Countries: Patterns of Diversity
Par Niels Spierings. 2015
This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the position of women in Muslim countries, based on research involving…
more than 300,000 women in 28 Muslim countries. It addresses topical debates on the role of Islam, modernization, globalization, neocolonialism, educational inequalities, patriarchy, household hierarchies, and more.Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record
Par Michael J. Benton, David A. Harper. 2020
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to…
bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and biostratigraphy to engineering analysis of dinosaur skulls, and from homeobox genes to cladistics. All the well-known fossil groups are included, including microfossils and invertebrates, but an important feature is the thorough coverage of plants, vertebrates and trace fossils together with discussion of the origins of both life and the metazoans. All key related subjects are introduced, such as systematics, ecology, evolution and development, stratigraphy and their roles in understanding where life came from and how it evolved and diversified. Unique features of the book are the numerous case studies from current research that lead students to the primary literature, analytical and mathematical explanations and tools, together with associated problem sets and practical schedules for instructors and students. New to this edition The text and figures have been updated throughout to reflect current opinion on all aspects New case studies illustrate the chapters, drawn from a broad distribution internationally Chapters on Macroevolution, Form and Function, Mass extinctions, Origin of Life, and Origin of Metazoans have been entirely rewritten to reflect substantial advances in these topics There is a new focus on careers in paleobiology