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Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the modern world
This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in …
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- 9789004327597
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- xiv, 254p.
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- 297.092 MAR m
Contemporary bioethics : Islamic perspective
This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s specia…
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- 9783319184289
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- xv, 267p. : ill.
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- 297.542 AL c
Religious individualisation : historical dimensions and comparative perspectives
This volume brings together key findings of the research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in Asia, the Mediterrane…
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- 9783110580853
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- XIV, 1416 p.
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- 204.4 REL r
Translating wisdom : Hindu-Muslim intellectual interactions in early modern S…
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case …
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- 9780520975750
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- XVI, 260 p.
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- 294.51570954 NAI t
Embodying the Vedas : traditional Vedic schools of contemporary Maharashtra
Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world’s oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750–1200 BCE. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditi…
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- 9783110517323
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- XVI, 272 p.
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- 294.5921071 LAR e
Migration and Islamic ethics: issues of residence, naturalization and citizen…
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacement Readership: All interested in migr…
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- 9789004417342
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- 1 online resource
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- Studies in Islamic ethics, vol. 2
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- 297.7 JUR m
Welcoming Africa’s children – theological and ministry perspectives
The purpose of this book is to combine perspectives of scholars from Africa on Child Theology from a variety of theological sub-disciplines to provide some theological and ministerial perspectives on this topic. The book disseminates original research and new developments in this study field, especially as relevant to the African context. In the process it addresses also the global need to hear…
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- 9781928396079
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- 308 p.; 23 cm.
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- 259.22 WEL w
A Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture : Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja - cr…
This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these serpentine beings ar…
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- 783110621051
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- VIII, 146 p.
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- Beyond Boundaries, 3
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- 294.3095496 HID a
A prehistory of Hinduism
This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehis…
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- 9783110517378
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- XIII, 222 p.
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- 290 DEV a
From scrolls to scrolling : sacred texts, materiality, and dynamic media cult…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…
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- 9783110634440
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- XVII, 307 p.
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- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 12
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- 297 SCR s
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