wyszukanych pozycji: 38
Ibn'aqil: Religion and Culture in Classical Islam
ISBN: 9780748609604 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This biography of the Muslim scholastic and humanist Ibn 'Aqil (A.H. 431-513/ A.D. 1040-1119) sheds light on one of the most important periods of classical Islam, one which has had a significant impact on religious and intellectual culture in the Christian Latin West.
This biography of the Muslim scholastic and humanist Ibn 'Aqil (A.H. 431-513/ A.D. 1040-1119) sheds light on one of the most important periods of clas...
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800,90 zł |
Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West
ISBN: 9780852246306 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Challenging beliefs about intellectual culture, Makdisi reaffirms the links between Western and Arabic thought and shows that although scholasticism and humanism have long been considered to be exclusive to the Western world, they have their roots in the medieval Islamic world.
Challenging beliefs about intellectual culture, Makdisi reaffirms the links between Western and Arabic thought and shows that although scholasticism a...
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490,88 zł |
Artillery of Heaven
ISBN: 9780801475757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul and over how his story might be told changed the actors and cultures on both... The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Mak... |
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87,79 zł |
Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam
ISBN: 9780860783015 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This second selection of articles by George Makdisi concentrates on the schools of religious thought and legal learning in the medieval Islamic world and their defence of ’orthodoxy’. The author aims to review and re-assess the implications of the conflict between, first, the ’rationalist’ and the ’traditional’ theologians (the one accepting the influence of Greek philosophy, the other rejecting it), and then between one of these traditionalist schools - the Hanbali school of law - and Sufi mysticism. One of the most important consequences of the first of these confrontations, he...
This second selection of articles by George Makdisi concentrates on the schools of religious thought and legal learning in the medieval Islamic world ...
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671,72 zł |
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
ISBN: 9780801446214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul and over how his story might be told changed the actors and cultures on both... The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Mak... |
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330,69 zł |
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
ISBN: 9780520346253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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135,98 zł |
The Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama: (Tahrim Al-Nazar Fi Kutub Al Al-Kalam)
ISBN: 9780906094167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn Aqil (d. 1119). Ibn Aqil, though himself a Hanbali, had come at one stage under the influence of Mu'tazilite thought and adopted certain of its views, which he was later obliged to retract. Ibn Qudama took the traditionalist position that speculative theology (kalam) and allegorical interpretation (ta'wil) were innovations and ipso facto not...
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. H...
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129,13 zł |
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
ISBN: 9780393338447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tending one s fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, sterile roads and seam zones bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion. In Palestine Inside Out, Saree Makdisi draws on eye-opening statistics, academic histories, UN reports, and contemporary journalism to reveal how the peace process institutionalized Palestinians loss of control over their inner and outer lives and argues powerfully and convincingly for a one-state solution."
Tending one s fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, c...
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125,84 zł |
Distracted Housewife in Dubai ... Diary
ISBN: 9789948807803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,37 zł |
Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
ISBN: 9780393329650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother, Hilda Musa Said, and her Teta, "Granny" Munira Badr Musa. Against the backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, the Suez crisis, the Arab-Israeli wars, and civil war in Beirut, she reveals the extraordinary courage of these ordinary women, while rethinking the notions of "traditional" and "modern," "East" and "West." With a loving eye, acute intelligence, and elegant, impassioned...
In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her ...
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117,15 zł |
Lessons of Lebanon: The Economics of War and Development
ISBN: 9781850433989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since 1945, over 200 intrastate conflicts have taken place in countries that achieved independence from colonial rule after the Second World War. The case of Lebanon offers a striking illustration of these interlocking influences on projects of national economic development. The persistently sectarian nature of the country's political institutions, the relatively poor quality of governance, and the major civil war that engulfed the country from 1975 to 1990, together define not only the context in which the achievements and failures of Lebanese development must be assessed, but also the...
Since 1945, over 200 intrastate conflicts have taken place in countries that achieved independence from colonial rule after the Second World War. The ...
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652,68 zł |
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
ISBN: 9780520385764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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126,99 zł |
The Lessons of Lebanon : The Economics of War
ISBN: 9781784537708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since 1945, over 200 intrastate conflicts have taken place in countries that achieved independence from colonial rule after the second world war. The case of Lebanon offers a striking illustration of these interlocking influences on projects of national economic development. The persistently sectarian nature of the country's political institutions, the relatively poor quality of governance, and the major civil war that engulfed the country from 1975 to 1990, together define not only the context in which the achievements and failures of Lebanese development must be assessed, but also the...
Since 1945, over 200 intrastate conflicts have taken place in countries that achieved independence from colonial rule after the second world war. The ...
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134,30 zł |
Reading William Blake
ISBN: 9780521763035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an exciting and imaginative approach to reading Blake. By exploring some of the most important themes in Blake's work and connecting them to particular plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Makdisi highlights Blake's creative power and the important interplay between images and words. There is a consistent emphasis on the relationship...
William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmake...
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251,00 zł |
Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity
ISBN: 9780521586047 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism, through original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Scott.
The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British...
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177,58 zł |
The Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings: Reconstruction, National Peace and Democratic Change
ISBN: 9781032383026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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645,89 zł |
The Rise of Colleges
ISBN: 9780852243756 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Makdisi's important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the origins and growth of the Madrasa.
Makdisi's important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the orig...
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490,88 zł |
Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001
ISBN: 9781586489618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged
A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged
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108,63 zł |
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
ISBN: 9780520409699 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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116,82 zł |
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
ISBN: 9780520258884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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126,99 zł |