"Al-Farabi and His School" examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam: the period which ran from the late ninth century to the early eleventh century AD...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780415560252
This Encyclopedia covers the full range of Islamic thought. It takes substantial note of contemporary trends across the Muslim world, and the material on historical Islam has contemporary reference....more details Format:Paperback Pages:872
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780748640812
This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions the journey which every believer must make and which leads to the Divine...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780748640829
This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780748623914
The author suggests there has been a chain of thinkers from classical Islam to the twentieth century who share a common interest in ijtihad (or independent thinking). Drawing on past and present evidence...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780748623921
The idea of tradition has enjoyed a variety of senses and definitions in
Islam and Christianity, but both have cleaved at certain times to a supposedly golden age of tradition from the past. In exploring the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:242
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9789004110762
Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA is a Middle East historian of world stature. In this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. The diversity of these essays reflects the diversity and depth of Professor Bosworth's own interests. Ranging through the five areas of Literature...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:443
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Ian Richard Netton
ISBN:9780700712540
This study reveals the world of Sufi ritual with particular reference to two major Sufi orders. It examines the ritual and practices of these orders and surveys their organisation and hierarchy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:219
This is the first book is a series arising from the annual Leeds International Medieval Congress. It contains selected papers from the 1995 and 1996 conferences...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Ian Richard Netton;Netton
ISBN:9780700703258
An essay in literary criticism with a difference, addressing the nature of blasphemy and using selected novels by Salman Rushdie, Najib Mahfuz and Nikos Kazantzakis as case studies....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176