The Most Learned of the Shi`a: The Institution of the Marja` Taqlid
ISBN: 9780195137996 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. Contributors look at a variety of critical historical periods--from medieval to modern--to reveal the social, political, and theological factors that have influenced the development of Shi'ite leadership.
This collection of essays explores the nature of political and religious leadership in Shi'ism. Contributors look at a variety of critical historical ...
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Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory
ISBN: 9780195189308 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling caliph, Yazid. The family and its supporters, hopelessly outnumbered, were massacred at Karbala, in modern-day Iraq. The story of Karbala is the cornerstone of institutionalized devotion and mourning for millions of Shii Muslims. Apart from its appeal to the Shii community, invocations of Karbala have also come to govern mystical and reformist discourses in the larger Muslim world. Indeed, Karbala even serves as the archetypal resistance and...
In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling ...
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Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras
ISBN: 9780226056777 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress, and practice with secular education, relative gender equality, and Internet use, this community serves as a surprising reminder that the central values of "modernity" are hardly limited to the West.
In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the co...
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Shi'ism
ISBN: 9780231135863 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, Shi'ism includes updated information on the fate of the Shi'ite revolution in Iran as well as a new chapter on Iraq. Observing a tradition more than 1000 years old, Shi'ites represent 10 percent of the Muslim population, or 100 million people. Halm explores how Shi'ism differs from the rest of Islam, discussing the prominence of its authorities, the Imams, as well as its legal system, practices of worship, places of pilgrimages, and a...
Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, |
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Shi'ism
ISBN: 9780231135870 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, Shi'ism includes updated information on the fate of the Shi'ite revolution in Iran as well as a new chapter on Iraq. Observing a tradition more than 1000 years old, Shi'ites represent 10 percent of the Muslim population, or 100 million people. Halm explores how Shi'ism differs from the rest of Islam, discussing the prominence of its authorities, the Imams, as well as its legal system, practices of worship, places of pilgrimages, and a...
Heinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of this branch of Islam. Newly revised, |
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The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam
ISBN: 9780292709591 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were martyred in 680 CE, is the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam. Though much has been written about the rituals that reenact and venerate Karbala, until now no one has studied women's participation in these observances. This collection of original essays by a multidisciplinary team of scholars analyzes the diverse roles that women have played in the Karbala rituals, as well as the varied ways in which gender-coded symbols have been used... Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were mart... |
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An Introduction to Shi`i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism
ISBN: 9780300035315 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a general introduction to Shi'i Islam--specifically to Twelver Shi'ism, to which the majority of Shi'is belong today. It deals with the history and development of this important religion, giving an account of Shi'i doctrines and focusing in particular on those areas in which it differs from Sunni Islam.
"Momen's book fills an important gap in the general literature in English on Twelver Shi'ism, and should be carefully studied by anyone who wants to know more about what is happening in the Middle East today....This is a fine work which deserves the widest possible... This book is a general introduction to Shi'i Islam--specifically to Twelver Shi'ism, to which the majority of Shi'is belong today. It deals with the h...
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The Shiites
ISBN: 9780312079536 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.
This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original wo...
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191,40 zł |
The Shiites
ISBN: 9780312100247 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.
This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original wo...
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The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India : Pulpit of Tears
ISBN: 9780415362344 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi'i Muslims are a minority within a minority, constituting about ten to fifteen percent of the population as a whole, but comprising of about fifteen million people. Ten sermons are presented entirely and many more are quoted in order to analyze the preaching tradition in full. This book is the first survey to present the Indian mourning...
One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power ...
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The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World
ISBN: 9780812219166 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Secret Order of Assassins The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World Marshall G. S. Hodgson "The essential work on the Assassins."--Times Literary Supplement The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of Christians that ended more than a century of Assassin rule; it was the massive and brutal invasion of Mongols from the East who conquered Assassin strong...
The Secret Order of Assassins The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World Marshall G. S. Hodgson "The essential work on the A...
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Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran
ISBN: 9780815628538 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th-century Qajar Iran (known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in 1906.
This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th-century Qajar Iran (known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood ...
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Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
ISBN: 9780887066795 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a unique study of Shi'a Islam as it lives in the minds and hearts of people in a Southwest Iranian village. The central segment of the text is presented in the form of edited interviews conducted in the course of anthropological fieldwork both before and after the Iranian revolution. The individuals, representing all major socio-economic and educational backgrounds, speak in their own words. Loeffler discovers that what people make of their religion is characterized by not only an unexpected diversity, but by an astounding sophistication. His format of presenting these views...
This book is a unique study of Shi'a Islam as it lives in the minds and hearts of people in a Southwest Iranian village. The central segment of the te...
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The Paradise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought
ISBN: 9781860644368 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nasir al-din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings under Ismaili and later the Mongol patronage. This is a new English translation of his Rawda-yi taslim--the single most important Ismaili text from the Alamut period. In this work the Persian and English texts are edited and published together for the first time. This is Tusi's major Ismaili work and the most important primary source on Ismaili doctrines during the Alamut period.
Nasir al-din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings under Ismaili and later the Mongol patronage. This is ...
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Ecstasy and Enlightenment: The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia
ISBN: 9781860647581 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage of Islam. The book focuses on the Ginans, a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages and attributed to a series of preacher-saints who propagated the Ismaili form of Islam in the subcontinent over several centuries.
The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural...
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The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq
ISBN: 9789053568897 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The troubled transition to democracy in Iraq has led many to wonder how the country's Shi'ites and Sunnis will balance their religious beliefs with political pressures. In" "this volume, historian Juan R. I. Cole explores clerical participation within Iraq's emerging democracy, including that of the Da'wa Party, the al-Sadr Movement, and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution. Ideal for students and scholars of foreign affairs, Cole's thought-provoking analysis will be important reading for anyone concerned about the future of Iraq.
The troubled transition to democracy in Iraq has led many to wonder how the country's Shi'ites and Sunnis will balance their religious beliefs with po...
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191,66 zł |
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology : Religious Ideology, Political Ideology, and Political Program
ISBN: 9789053569108 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the recent war in Lebanon demonstrated, an understanding of the Lebanese Shi‘ite militant group Hizbullah remains an important component of any attempt to solve the problems of the Middle East. The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology provides an in-depth analysis of the group’s motivations, tracking the changes it has undergone since Hizbullah’s founding by Lebanese Shi‘ite clergy in 1978. Joseph Alagha demonstrates that Hizbullah, driven at its founding chiefly by religious concerns, in the latter half of... As the recent war in Lebanon demonstrated, an understanding of the Lebanese Shi‘ite militant group Hizbullah remains an important compo... |
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Shia Cresent: Emergence of World War 3
ISBN: 9781432718589 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Shia Domination in the Middle East? Nuclear Capable Iran could give rise to a Shia dominance in the Middle East spanning from Iran to the Mediterranean and eventually threaten the European region and the west, and thereby causing the entire region to be monopolized by fanatics like President Mahmood Ahmedinejad and Mullah's who subscribe to a Fundamentalist Arm of the Shia sect that envisions the end of the World. If we allow Iran to become Nuclear Capable, we may see the dawn of a heinous era leading United States and the allies and other nations involved into World War Three... A Shia Domination in the Middle East? Nuclear Capable Iran could give rise to a Shia dominance in the Middle East spanning from Iran to the Me... |
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Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism
ISBN: 9781845111243 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in Shi'i Islam is running at unprecedented levels. International tensions over Iran, where the largest number of Shi'i Muslims live, as well as the political resurgence of the Shi'i in Iraq and Lebanon, have created an urgent need to understand the background, beliefs and motivations of this dynamic vision of Islam. Abbas Amanat is one of the leading scholars of Shi'ism. And in this powerful book, a showcase for some of his most influential writing in the field, he addresses the colorful and diverse history of Shi' Islam in both premodern and contemporary times. Focusing... Interest in Shi'i Islam is running at unprecedented levels. International tensions over Iran, where the largest number of Shi'i Muslims live, as we... |
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Shi'ism
ISBN: 9780415391870 / Angielski / Twarda / 1704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Shi'ite studies. This title covers the birth of Shi'ism and traces its development. It consists of articles which explore the theologies and philosophical ideals of Shi'ism. It is devoted to Shi'ite law, with specia
Reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Shi'ite studies. This title covers the birth of Shi'ism and traces its development. It consists of articles w...
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