Between Jerusalem and Mecca: Sanctity and Redemption in the Qurʾān and the Islamic Tradition 9783111222318, 9783111220079

Between Jerusalem and Mecca: Sanctity and Redemption in the Qurʾān and the Islamic Tradition 9783111222318, 9783111220079

This book sheds new light on Jerusalem's status in early Islam. The sanctity of the city is already discerned in th

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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198746676, 0198746679

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition 9783110776485, 9783110776034

Open Access This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technolog

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Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work Among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem 9780300131994

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by

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Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam 9780755694471, 9781780765617

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has histo

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The Islamic syncretistic tradition in Bengal 0691053871

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "real" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-ce

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The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia 9780700703142

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The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France: Between the ancients and the moderns 9781847793041

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by Engli

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The Bible and the Qur’an: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Tradition 9780567666017, 9780567666048, 9780567666024

Not everyone realizes that some of the key figures of Christianity (for example Jesus and Mary) and Judaism (Abraham, Mo

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Hardship and Deliverance in the Islamic Tradition: Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Al-Tanūkhī 9780755610655, 9781848851177

Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE. During his life, he wrote

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