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ISBN: W0093
Publisher: NAVNEET
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Author: GALA
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₨ 20
ISBN: W0093
Publisher: NAVNEET
Subtitle:
Author: GALA
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ISBN: 9788178984469
Publisher: CREST PUBLISHING HOUSE
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Author: HERBERT I. KAVET
Christos Tsiolkas’ stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, Damascus nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, colonisation, refugees; the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united and divided – it’s all here, the contemporary and urgent questions, perennial concerns made vivid and visceral.
ISBN: 9781760875091
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
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Author: CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
ISBN: 9780367491093
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: AN ADVANCED INTRODUCTION
Author: ROBERTO TOTTOLI
The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750?1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture. This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 examines the Caliphate as an empire and institution, and probes its influence over Islamic culture and society. Ranging widely to survey the entire five-century history of the Abbasid dynasty, Tayeb El-Hibri examines the resilience of the Caliphate as an institution, as a focal point of religious definitions, and as a source of legitimacy to various contemporary Islamic monarchies. The study revisits ideas of ‘golden age’ and ‘decline’ with a new reading, tries to separate Abbasid history from the myths of the Arabian Nights, and shows how the legacy of the caliphs continues to resonate in the modern world in direct and indirect ways.
ISBN: 9781107183247
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: A HISTORY
Author: TAYEB EL-HIBRI
‘An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world’s religious texts can be a force for good today’ John Barton, author of A History of the Bible. In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. The Quran, the Torah and the Bible are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong, a world authority on religious affairs, shows in this fascinating journey through millennia of history, this narrow reading of scripture is a relatively recent phenomenon. Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world’s religions be able to curtail arrogance and intolerance. And if scripture is used to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways, we will find that it still has a great deal to teach us.
AUTHOR: KAREN ARMSTRONG
ISBN: 9781784705329
ISBN: 9781784705329
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: RESCUING THE SACRED TEXTS
Author: KAREN ARMSTRONG
Is there a universal concept of God? Do all the great faiths of the world share a vision of the same supreme reality? In an attempt to answer these questions, Keith Ward considers the doctrine of an ultimate reality within five world religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. He studies closely the works of definitive, orthodox writers from each tradition – Sankara, Ramanuja, Asvaghosa, Maimonides, Al-Ghazzali and Aquinas – to build up a series of ‘images’ of God, a common core of belief. Ward discovers that while the great religious traditions of the world retain their differences, there are convergences of thought at the deepest level, with a broad similarity of structure in concepts of God. He concludes that a recognition of these beliefs, as well as encouraging a clearer acceptance of the mystery of the divine, might also lead to an increase in understanding and tolerance of other faiths, to the enrichment of one’s own.
ISBN: 1851680640
Publisher: ONE WORLD
Subtitle: IMAGES OF THE DIVINE IN FIVE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Author: KEITH WARD
ISBN: 0143031783
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: REVISED AND UPDATE, WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON ‘THE PATH TO SAINTHOOD’
Author: NAVIN CHAWLA