Download or read book Memoirs of My Life and Writings written by Edward Gibbon and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.

Download or read book Science and Empires written by P. Petitjean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.

Download or read book Islamic Mysticism Contested written by F. de Jong and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers provides a comprehensive survey of controversies and polemics concerning Islamic mysticism from the formative period of Islam till the present. It adds substantially to our knowledge of the history of Islamic mysticism, and of present-day anti-Sufi fundamentalist orientations.

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Download or read book God s Unruly Friends written by Ahmet T. Karamustafa and published by ONEWorld. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wandering dervishes formed a prominent feature of most Muslim communities and although social misfits, were revered by the public yet denounced by cultural elites. This survey of this type of piety, traces the history of the different dervish groups that roamed the lands in Asia as well as the Middle East and Southeast Europe.

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Download or read book Sufi Institutions written by Alexandre Papas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the social and practical aspects of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) across centuries and geographical regions. Its authors seek to transcend ethereal, essentialist and “spiritualizing” approaches to Sufism, on the one hand, and purely pragmatic and materialistic explanations of its origins and history, on the other. Covering five topics (Sufism’s economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi spaces, politics, and organization), the volume shows that mystics have been active socio-religious agents who could skillfully adjust to the conditions of their time and place, while also managing to forge an alternative way of living, worshiping and thinking. Basing themselves on the most recent research on Sufi institutions, the contributors to this volume substantially expand our understanding of the vicissitudes of Sufism by paying special attention to its organizational and economic dimensions, as well as complex and often ambivalent relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important and sometimes critical roles. Contributors are Mehran Afshari, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Semih Ceyhan, Rachida Chih, Nathalie Clayer, David Cook, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Daphna Ephrat, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nathan Hofer, Hussain Ahmad Khan, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Richard McGregor, Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Alexandre Papas, Luca Patrizi, Paulo G. Pinto, Adam Sabra, Mark Sedgwick, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Knut S. Vikør and Neguin Yavari

Download or read book Story Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights written by David Pinault and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the Nights. Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions — especially Bulaq, MacNaghten, and the fourteenth-century Galland text recently edited by Mahdi — as well as unpublished Arabic manuscripts from libraries in France and North Africa. The study demonstrates that significantly different versions have survived of some of the most famous tales from the Nights. Pinault notes how individual manuscript redactors employed — and sometimes modified — formulaic phrases and traditional narrative topoi in ways consonant with the themes emphasized in particular versions of a tale. He also examines the redactors' modification of earlier sources — Arabic chronicles and Islamic religious treatises, geographers' accounts and medieval legends — for specific narrative goals. Comparison of the narrative structure of diverse story-collection also sheds new light on the relationship of the embedded subordinate-narrative to the overarching frame-tale. All cited passages from the Nights and other Arabic story- collections have been fully translated into English.

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Download or read book Sufis and Anti Sufis written by Elizabeth Sirriyeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its continuing appeal in the Muslim world, Sufism has faced fierce challenges in the last 250 years. This volume assesses the evolution of anti-Sufism since the middle of the eighteenth century and Sufi strategies for survival. It also considers the efforts of a few significant Muslim intellectuals to contemplate a future for a mystical approach to Islam without traditional Sufism. Many studies of Islam in the modern period have focused on the attempts of Muslim 'modernists' or 'fundamentalists' to come to terms with western modernity, and Sufis have often been marginalised in the process. Elizabeth Sirriyeh redresses this neglect by assigning to Sufism a central place in the broader history of Islam in the modern world and by examining how changing understandings of Sufism's role in modern conditions have affected Muslims of all shades of opinion.

Download or read book FILUMENA Sainte Philom ne written by Véronique Bacci and published by Iceberg Editions. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé Que s'est-il vraiment passé pour celle qui était la "chère petite sainte" du Curé d'Ars ? Pourquoi la protégée de bien des Papes a-t-elle été rejetée ? Qui se cache derrière cette martyre d'une si grande puissance d'intercession ? L'histoire commence en 1802, au coeur des catacombes romaines, où l'on découvre la sépulture d'une jeune martyre du IVème siècle, Filumena. Elle n'a que 13 ans lorsqu'elle est placée dans cette niche funéraire. Si dès lors, les miracles furent nombreux jusqu'à nos jours, celle que l'on appelle aujourd'hui Philomène, surnommée "la grande thaumaturge du XIXème siècle", a suscité bien des controverses. Vénérée par l'Eglise durant 160 ans, elle est soudainement destituée et rayée de la liste des Saints Catholiques. Dans ce livre, véritable investigation de l'auteure, vous découvrirez toute l'histoire de Sainte Philomène: les visions mystiques y rencontrent les faits historiques, les affabulations se confrontent à la science, les miracles embrassent les phénomènes surnaturels... Tout ce qui a pu se dire et se faire à propos d'elle tient entre les pages de cet ouvrage, qui vous mèneront jusqu'à un florilège de prières, d'accessoires ainsi qu'un petit précis de dévotion à la sainte. Table des matières (simplifiée): Introduction ORIGINE ET HISTOIRE Découverte de Sainte Philomène Sur le chemin de Mugnano Del Cardinale Miracles Une vie mystérieuse La vérité historique Le cas de Pauline Jaricot Sainte Philomène et le Curé d'Ars Destitution de sainte Philomène Sainte populaire ou sainte catholique ? Protocole de canonisation Canonisation équipollente: un espoir ? L'offrande de la vie Sainteté et sainteté Un piédestal inébranlable AUTOUR DE SAINTE PHILOMENE Une question d'égrégore ? Les filles de sainte Philomène Vertus à pratiquer L'archiconfrérie universelle de sainte Philomène Le Père Louis Petit Note concernant les reliques CONCLUSION Conclusion personnelle Prière de réparation DEVOTION Avertissement Autel et attributs Autel Pot à requêtes Attributs Autel de voyage Acte de consécration à sainte Philomène Consécration d'un enfant Pour une communion Hors communion Dévotion hebdomadaire Prière hebdomadaire à Sainte Philomène Prières, litanies & oraisons Neuvaine à sainte Philomène selon le R.P. O'Sullivan Neuvaine à sainte Philomène pour travailler sur soi Le mois de sainte Philomène Triduum pour la fête de Sainte Philomène Prière pour le 9 août Prière pour le 10 août Prière pour la 11 août Triduum à Sainte Philomène (prière instante) Messe pour Sainte Philomène avant de célébrer son office Office propre pour la fête de Sainte Philomène, après la messe Petit office pour sainte Philomène Chapelet de sainte Philomène Le cordon de sainte Philomène Historique et utilisation Prières Fabrication Bénédiction L'huile de Sainte Philomène ANNEXES Calendrier Glossaire Bibliographie

Download or read book Vie de Sainte Philomene Vierge Et Martyre Ou La Sainte Thaumaturge Du Xixe Siecle written by Sans Auteur and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sufis and Sufism written by Neeru Misra and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution Of Sufism In Medieval India Also Coincided With The Rise Of The Bhakti Movement. Both The Schools Had A Complimentary Impact On Each Other. A Number Of Scholarly Volumes Have Been Written And Copiled On This Area Of Social History, And The Present Volume Seeks To Fill Some Of The Gaps And Offer New Light In The Already Existing Researches On Sufi Saints And Their Paths. Though The Papers Do Not Form A Specific Theme Yet Reflections In The Articles Provide A New Look To Our Understanding Of Some Of The Obscure Aspects.