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Author : G. J. Toomer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : OCLC:1148919386
Author : G. J. Toomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198202911
This book narrates the extraordinary growth in the study of Arabic in England from the late sixteenth century, when it was almost non-existent, to the end of the seventeenth. By its high point around 1666, England was preeminent among European countries in the study of Arabic. Permanent chairs of Arabic had been established at Oxford and Cambridge, and specialized presses in Oxford and London had produced important Arabic works. In this masterly and original study, Professor Toomer gives the first detailed account of this process, set against the religious and political background in England and in Europe. He shows how trade with the Ottoman Empire and mistrust of Islam influenced the study of Arabic. Finally, he traces the course and causes of the drastic decline in Arabic studies towards the end of the century.
Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781577319221
Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.
Author : Zen Master Nissim Amon
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781619847361
A collection of 124 chapters of eastern teachings, containing the foundations of philosophy, ancient wisdom and vision in an accessible way. Most chapters linked to Buddhism, Hinduism and Tao. A book that encourages dialogue and personal research.
Author : Abdullah Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134102938
There is much more to the Qur'an than the selective quotations favoured by Islamic fundamentalists. This book provides a student-friendly guide to the many ways in which the Qur'an can be read. Designed for both Muslims and Western non-Muslim students, it examines the Qur'an in Western scholarship as well as giving an overview of the rich interpretive traditions from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. This guide is a concise introduction to all aspects of the Qur'an: history, understanding and interpretation, providing: coverage of both pre-modern and modern periods plenty of examples to illustrate key points and aid student understanding summaries, timelines and a glossary.
Author : Claudia Eppert,Hongyu Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136792755
This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing
Author : Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781933316222
This is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism that have proved most attractive to Western seekers, it explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions while emphasizing respect amongst the adherents of different faiths.
Author : P. J. Saher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033595104
Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674048601
Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770893542
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. A fascinating work of history, biography, cartography, and literary mystery, Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time. In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP, and the city’s first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was “a puzzle that had to be solved”: an exceptional artefact so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe — and now power China’s ascent. And it raises as many question as it answers: How did John Selden acquire it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the world in this way and, most importantly, what can it tell us about the world at that time? Like a cartographic detective, award-winning author and historian Timothy Brook has provided answers. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet, and into China itself, Brook uses the map to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in China’s history.
Author : E. van Staalduine-Sulman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004355934
In Justifying Christian Aramaism Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman explores how Christian scholars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century justify their study of the Targums, the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : John Considine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780198832287
This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.
Author : Heather E. McGregor
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780774859493
Since the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact between Inuit and newcomers has led to profound changes in education in the Eastern Arctic, including the experience of colonization and progress toward the re-establishment of traditional education in schools. Heather McGregor assesses developments in the history of education in four periods � the traditional, the colonial (1945-70), the territorial (1971-81), and the local (1982-99). She concludes that education is most successful when Inuit involvement and local control support a system reflecting Inuit culture and visions.
Author : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides,Elizabeth H. Prodromou
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268101299
Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.
Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141901800
Robert Irwin’s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid’s military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of Knowing is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.
