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Author : Angus Macnab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000051642327
Historical sketches so irresistibly readable, they might have been lifted straight from the Arabian Nights.
Author : Lauren Beck
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967927
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816528403
It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and another time, while its beauty is universal and timeless. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a two-century-old Spanish church in southern Arizona located just a few miles from downtown Tucson, a metropolis of more than half a million people in the American Southwest. A National Historic Landmark since 1963, the missionÕs graceful baroque art and architecture have drawn visitors from all over the world. Now Bernard FontanaÑthe leading expert on San XavierÑand award-winning photographer Edward McCain team up to bring us a comprehensive view of the mission as weÕve never seen it before. With 200 stunning full-color photographs and incisive text illuminating the religious, historical, and motivational context of these images, A Gift of Angels is a must-have for tourists, scholars, and other visitors to San Xavier. From its glorious architecture all the way down to the finest details of its art, Mission San Xavier del Bac is indeed a gift of angels.
Author : Kellen Kee MacIntyre,Richard E. Phillips
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004153929
This illustrated anthology brings together for the first time a collection of essays that explore the position of women and the contributions made by them to the arts and architecture of early modern Latin America.
Author : Mateus Soares de Azevedo
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780941532693
Contains essays on mysticism, prayer, sacred art, the relationship between Christianity and other religious.
Author : richard ford, f.s.a
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555056166
Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Spain
ISBN : UCAL:B3151712
Author : Jean-Louis Michon,Roger Gaetani
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780941532754
A collection of essays on Sufism, written by such contemporary contributors as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Chittick, and Frithjof Schuon, demystifies its language, philosophies, and history, in a volume that also provides interpretations of classic and modern essays. Original.
Author : Steven Nightingale
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781619025066
Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain's greatest lyric poet. Perhaps most importantly, Andalusia is home to the city of Granada, where a hybrid culture composed of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and its surrounding countryside, finding there a lavish story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, and finally anguish. Part of that region in southern Spain named by its Islamic rulers "Al–Andalus," medieval Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry in several languages, the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, the birth of algebra, and the construction of architectural masterpieces such as the Alhambra and the Generalife. Yet with Ferdinand and Isabella's sack of Granada in 1492, regarded as the culmination of the Reconquista, which sought to reclaim Spain for the Vatican, a Catholic mythology of Spain began to erode Granada's centuries–old reputation as an artistically vital haven for multiple ethnic and religious groups. Linking the disastrous afterlife of the Reconquista to the Catholic nationalism of the Franco regime—whose execution of Granadan poet Federico Garcia Lorca symbolizes the suppression of Andalusia's cultural heritage—Nightingale demonstrates the extent to which this Catholic triumphalism also obscured the source of much cultural wealth bequeathed by Al–Andalus to Christian Europe. Nightingale's own account of the region's medieval zenith recovers the intellectual pageantry and aesthetic splendor of this astounding period in Western history and the marvelous city that was its cultural center.
Author : Hugh James Rose
Publisher : London, S. Tinsley
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : OXFORD:N12157007
Author : Hugh James Rose
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385249141
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Reza Shah-Kazemi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857721464
In 1932, the eminent British scholar of Islam, Sir Hamilton Gibb, wrote: "The nobility and broad tolerance of this religion [Islam], which accepted all the real religions of the world as God-inspired, will always be a glorious heritage for mankind. No other society has such a record of success in uniting, in an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavor, so many and so various races of humanity." (Whither Islam?) Such scholarly objectivity towards the tolerance which has historically characterized the Islamic tradition as a whole is in short supply these days. Through an insidious symbiosis of fanatical Muslims and prejudiced Islamophobes, the very opposite image of Islam has emerged as one of the most dangerous stereotypes of our times. The most cursory glance at history will not only reveal the falsity of this stereotype of an intolerant Islam, it will also reveal the little known fact that, not so long ago, it was the Islamic world that provided models of tolerant conduct for a fanatically intolerant Christian world tearing itself apart over dogmatic differences. The first part of this monograph examines the historical record of tolerance in the Islamic tradition, illustrating the expression of the principle of tolerance through the rule of such dynasties as the Ottomans, Mughals, Fatimids, and the Umayyads of Spain. In the second, the principle of tolerance is shown to be rooted in the spirit of the Qur'anic revelation and embodied in the exemplary conduct of the Prophet.
Author : William Stoddart
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781936597024
Followed by many millions of Muslims throughout the world, Sufism is the heart of Islamic spirituality. This succinct, yet comprehensive book offers an overview of Sufism's fundamental doctrines and spiritual practices. Book jacket.
Author : Susan Schroeder,Stafford Poole
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0826339786
Religion in New Spain presents an overview of the history of colonial religious culture and encompasses aspects of religion in the many regions of New Spain. In reading these essays, it is clear the Spanish conquest was not the end-all of indigenous culture, that the Virgin of Guadalupe was a myth-in-the-making by locals as well as foreigners, that nuns and priests had real lives, and that the institutional colonial church, even post-Trent, was seldom if ever above or beyond political or economic influence. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole have divided the presentations into seven parts that represent general categories spanning the colonial era: "Encounters, Accommodation, and Outright Idolatry"; "Native Sexuality and Christian Morality"; "Believing in Miracles: Taking the Veil and New Realities"; "Guardian of the Christian Society: The Holy Office of the Inquisition--Racism, Judaizing, and Gambling"; "Music and Martyrdom on the Northern Frontier"; and "Tangential Christianity on Other Frontiers: Business and Politics as Usual." Sacred space can be anywhere and might not be bound by walls and ceilings. As the authors of these essays show, religion is often an attempt to reconcile the mysterious and unmanageable forces of nature, such as storms, droughts, floods, infestations of pests, epidemic diseases, and sicknesses; it is an attempt to control the uncontrollable.
Author : Christopher Howse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781441125583
Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain. For him, its centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines demand pilgrimage more than tourism. In a journey across the Castilian interior he follows in the footsteps of El Cid and St Dominic, examines St Teresa's arm, samples the legacy of the Cardinal who invaded Africa, finds the spot where St John of the Cross escaped from prison, and discovers in a mountain shrine the world's largest remnant of the True Cross. He comes across a slaughterhouse dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a cock and hen living in a cathedral. He hears of uncivil war in Europe's most civilised square and enjoys the smells, heat, food, noise, prayers, tears, flies, smoke, violence and laughter of an ancient culture in its last years. With an eye for the humorous and strange, he spends time in Soria and Silos, Yuste and Segovia, before turning from the pilgrim destination of Santiago de Compostela to the valleys of Extremadura, where the Virgin of Guadalupe took the Spanish to an unknown world.