Author: Simon O'Meara
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
KaE ba Orientations
Author: Simon O'Meara
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
Weekly Parliamentary Debates
Author: Botswana. National Assembly
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Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
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Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Remaining Karen
Author: Ananda Rajah
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192153611X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This publication of REMAINING KAREN is intended as a tribute to Ananda Raja and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. REMAINING KAREN was Ananda Raja's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand, which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192153611X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This publication of REMAINING KAREN is intended as a tribute to Ananda Raja and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. REMAINING KAREN was Ananda Raja's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand, which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
The Cornellian
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Bua Setswana
Author: Bibiana Nalwiindi Seaborn
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Category : Tswana language
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Tswana language
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Ceramic Abstracts
Author: American Ceramic Society
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Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Laser Physics
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Category : Lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Kutlwano
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Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Physics of Quantum Mechanics
Author: James Binney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This title gives students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material world. The text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This title gives students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material world. The text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum world.
African Economic Development, 1979-January 1988
Author: Mary E. Lassanyi
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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