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17 produkter
Devotional Qur’an
Beloved Surahs and Verses
Häftad, 2025
161 kr
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A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur’anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world overMuslim devotional practices vary greatly over time and across regions, communities, and denominations, but they share core Qur’anic surahs (chapters) and …
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the …
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
Häftad, 2010
1043 kr
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Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the …
Islam
A Short Guide to the Faith
Av Roger Allen, Shawkat M. Roorawa m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
300 kr
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In this straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays -- each by a different, specialized expert in the field -- readers will encounter all the major elements of Islam, including its history, its beliefs, its practices, and its interactions, notably with Christianity, Judaism, and …
The Hajj
Pilgrimage in Islam
Av Eric Tagliacozzo, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, 2015
1423 kr
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Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and …
The Hajj
Pilgrimage in Islam
Av Eric Tagliacozzo, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Häftad, 2015
452 kr
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Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and …
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
E-bok, 2004
1199 kr
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Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the …
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
E-bok, 2004
1235 kr
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Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the …
Hajj
Pilgrimage in Islam
Av Shawkat M. Toorawa, Eric Tagliacozzo
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
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Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and …
Hajj
Pilgrimage in Islam
Av Shawkat M. Toorawa, Eric Tagliacozzo
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
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Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields - including history, religion, anthropology, and …
Consorts of the Caliphs
Women and the Court of Baghdad
Av Ibn al-Sāʿī, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, 2015
559 kr
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Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume …
Consorts of the Caliphs
Women and the Court of Baghdad
Av Ibn al-Sāʿī, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Häftad, 2017
208 kr
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Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume …
Social Life under the Abbasids
Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies 6
Av Muhammad Manazir Ahsan, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, 2027
662 kr
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Some thirty years have passed since the original publication of M. M. Ahsan's Social Life Under the Abbasids, but it remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries.Ahsan arranges his material thematically-costume, food, housing, …
Arabic Belles Lettres
Av Joseph E. Lowry, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qurʾan's allusive legal language; …
Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought
Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson
Av Joseph E. Lowry, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, 2017
2818 kr
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This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic …
City That Never Sleeps
Poems of New York
Inbunden, 2015
404 kr
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An eclectic collection of poems about New York City."New York, the city that never sleeps, contains more light than all the myriad heavens conceived of by its denizens of every possible race, religion, culture, color, and creed combined. All poets are besotted with light: it is the most …
