The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia 9780700703142

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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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition 9780691201245

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature I

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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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Recognizing Sufism: Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition 9781350987739, 9780857727831

Sufism is all too often associated just with ‘mysticism’ in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of

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Surviving the Mongols: Nizārī Quhistānī and the Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Persia 9780755611898, 9781848859135

The Mongol invasion of Iran in the 13th century was a catastrophic event for all its inhabitants. For the persian Ismail

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Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions 1937040917, 9781937040918

This book focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth

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Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition 9780745335131, 0745335136

Activist, economist, geographer, evolutionary theorist, and philosopher Peter Kropotkin remains one of the most importan

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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 0300071426

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The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) [Illustrated] 0812249291, 9780812249293

When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining con

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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition 9780300235562

This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accur

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