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• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 39,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 July 2008

The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2012

The earliest medieval Jewish mystical writings, or kabbalah, date from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. This is the first book to focus on the most prodigious group active

• Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2018

The human race is in crisis and very few of us – if any – are able to understand what is wrong with our lives and the world at large. How did

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 July 2012

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his

• Publisher : Fons Vitae
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 August 2021

The Book of Contemplation is the thirty-ninth of the forty Books of The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'ulum al-din) and the very last to appear in English translation.

• Publisher : Harper Collins
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 11 September 2012

Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation

• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

A collection of thirty-nine short essays in which Thomas Merton examines what true contemplation is and how it can impact one's spirituality.

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1996

In The Contemplation of the World, eminent French theorist Michel Maffesoli pursues and extends his project of decoding contemporary societies. Here, Maffesoli questions afresh the mundane stuff of contemporary sociality,

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 October 2013

First published in 1986. This volume brings together five lectures which were originally delivered at different sessions of the famous Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Henry Corbin himself had outlined the

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 January 2023

Patterns of Contemplation is a uniquely innovative and comprehensive introduction to the sacred principles and symbolism of geometry, letters and numbers, discussed through the first in-depth analysis and English translation