Author: Omid Safi
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807856574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-r
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Author: Omid Safi
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807856574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-r
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807856574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-r
The Walking Qurʼan
Author: Rudolph T. Ware
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469614316
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469614316
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Islamic Contributions to Civilization
Author: Stanwood Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316225800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316225800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.
Islam and Knowledge
Author: Imtiyaz Yusuf
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781780760681
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is an era when the Islamic World is making a range of attempts to redefine itself and to grapple with the challenges of modernity. Many schools of thought have emerged which seek to position modern Islam within the context of a rapidly changing contemporary world. Exploring and defining the relationship between religion and knowledge, Ismail Rafi Al-Faruqi, a distinguished 20th century Arab-American scholar of Islam, formulated ideas which have made substantial contributions to the Islam-and-modernity discourse. His review of the interaction between Islam and knowledge examines the philosophy behind this relationship, and the ways in which Islam can relate to our understanding of science, the arts, architecture, technology and other knowledge-based fields of enquiry. This book includes contributions from Seyyed Hossein Nasr, John Esposito, Charles Fletcher and others, and will prove an essential reference point for scholars of Islam and students of philosophy and comparative religion.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781780760681
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is an era when the Islamic World is making a range of attempts to redefine itself and to grapple with the challenges of modernity. Many schools of thought have emerged which seek to position modern Islam within the context of a rapidly changing contemporary world. Exploring and defining the relationship between religion and knowledge, Ismail Rafi Al-Faruqi, a distinguished 20th century Arab-American scholar of Islam, formulated ideas which have made substantial contributions to the Islam-and-modernity discourse. His review of the interaction between Islam and knowledge examines the philosophy behind this relationship, and the ways in which Islam can relate to our understanding of science, the arts, architecture, technology and other knowledge-based fields of enquiry. This book includes contributions from Seyyed Hossein Nasr, John Esposito, Charles Fletcher and others, and will prove an essential reference point for scholars of Islam and students of philosophy and comparative religion.
Muslim Contributions to World Civilization
Author: M. Basheer Ahmed
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN: 1565644107
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The brilliant contributions of Islam to science, art, and culture, are a timeless and precious heritage, which should be historically preserved for future generations. The great achievements of Muslim scholars are rarely if at all acknowledged in formal education, and today their identity, origins and impact remain largely obscure. This collection of papers aims to give readers a brief introduction to the intellectual history of Muslims and the contributions that eminent Muslim scholars have made in certain specific fields of knowledge including basic and applied physical and biological sciences, medicine, legal and political theories and practices, economic and financial concepts, models, and institutions, etc.
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN: 1565644107
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The brilliant contributions of Islam to science, art, and culture, are a timeless and precious heritage, which should be historically preserved for future generations. The great achievements of Muslim scholars are rarely if at all acknowledged in formal education, and today their identity, origins and impact remain largely obscure. This collection of papers aims to give readers a brief introduction to the intellectual history of Muslims and the contributions that eminent Muslim scholars have made in certain specific fields of knowledge including basic and applied physical and biological sciences, medicine, legal and political theories and practices, economic and financial concepts, models, and institutions, etc.
Contributions to Islamic Knowledge
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Author: Asma Sayeed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.
Medieval Islamic Medicine
Author: Peter E. Pormann
Publisher: New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
ISBN: 9780748620678
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.
Publisher: New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
ISBN: 9780748620678
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Author: Salim Ayduz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199812578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1149
Book Description
The main reference source for questions of Islamic philosophy, science, and technology amongst Western engaged readers and academics in general and legal researchers in particular.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199812578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1149
Book Description
The main reference source for questions of Islamic philosophy, science, and technology amongst Western engaged readers and academics in general and legal researchers in particular.