World Thought in Translation – serie
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11 produkter
Caliphate or Supreme Imamate
Inbunden, 2024
522 kr
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A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865–1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a village near Tripoli in present-day Lebanon, he was …
Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers
Av Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki
Inbunden, 2017
1110 kr
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The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages.Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. In …
New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness
Av Shili Xiong
Inbunden, 2015
1206 kr
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This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between the ontological and the phenomenal. This …
Initiative to Stop the Violence
Sadat’s Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence
Inbunden, 2015
1206 kr
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Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. …
Charand-o Parand
Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909
Inbunden, 2016
1387 kr
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A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political …
Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
Av 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Sha'rani, Andrew March
Inbunden, 2017
651 kr
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This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern EgyptThis guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and …
Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
Av Sa‘d ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi
Inbunden, 2019
603 kr
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Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopherWritten in the mid‑thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide‑ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, …
Art of Peacemaking
Political Essays by István Bibó
Av István Bibó, Iván Zoltán Dénes
Inbunden, 2015
1206 kr
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István Bibó (1911–1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This magisterial compendium of Bibó’s essays introduces English-speaking audiences to the writings of one of the …
Islamic Thought in Africa
The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana
Av Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura, Zakyi Ibrahim
Inbunden, 2021
1591 kr
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The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poemsThis is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ Ajura (1910–2004), a northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as Afa Ajura, or “scholar from …
Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
Inbunden, 2022
597 kr
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Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In Public Freedoms in the Islamic State, his most influential book, he argues …
Yi River Commentary on the Book of Changes
Av Cheng Yi
Inbunden, 2019
789 kr
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A translation of a key commentary on perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical ChinaThis book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes, or Yijing (I Ching), perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The Yijing first appeared as a divination text …
