Download or read book Islamic Yoga written by Amir Fatir and published by Fatir Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful perspective on yoga and its relationship to the religion of Islam.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies written by Suzanne Newcombe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and meditation studies and combines the best of established research with attention to emerging directions for future investigation. This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Chapters 1, 4, 9, 12, and 27 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Download or read book SALAT AN ISLAMIC YOGA MEDITATION written by Atiqur Rahman and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam As It Is written by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and published by goodword. This book was released on 1992 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoga in Practice written by David Gordon White and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.
Download or read book Islam and Yoga written by and published by Abu Zayd K. Ali. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga, as it is practiced today, has extended to Muslim & Arab nations in the guise of health, fitness, and wellbeing. Surprisingly, yoga training centers, including run-of-the-mill classes and high-tech studios, have mushroomed across Muslim countries in the past few years. It concerns me greatly as I believe that yoga is a vehicle for the propagation of Hinduism. Topics Covered: Introduction Brief History of Religions -Vedism -Hinduism -Buddhism -Jainism -Sikhism -Sufism -Taoism -*Chakra -*Enlightenment -*Karma -*Moksha History of Yoga -Yoga in Vedism -Yoga in Hinduism -Yoga in Buddhism -Yoga in Jainism -Branches of Yoga -Kundalini Yoga -Yin Yoga -Who was Patanjali? What is an Asana? -Forms of Worship in Asanas -Surya Namaskar -Chandra Namaskar -Pranayama What is a Mudra? Namaste Meditation Who is a Yogi? -Can a Muslim be a Yogi? Religious Affiliation -Modes of Yoga -Hindu God Shiva -Hindu God Krishna -Hindu God Vishnu The Spread of Yoga -Western World -Muslim World Alternatives to Yoga -Pilates -Calisthenics Islamic Perspective -Ruling Concerning Yoga -Imitating the Disbelievers -Shirk and Its Types
Download or read book Yoga in Transformation written by Karl Baier and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2018 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.
Download or read book The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science written by Mario Kozah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. ca. 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India.
Download or read book The Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations written by Carl W. Ernst and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guru Papers written by Joel Kramer and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of “the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely” explorations of power dynamics and authoritarianism in religions, institutions, relationships and even personal struggles (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review) Authoritarian control, which once held societies together, is now at the core of personal, social, and planetary problems, and thus a key factor in social disintegration. Authoritarianism is embedded in the way people think—hiding in culture, values, daily life, and in the very morality people try to live by. In The Guru Papers, authors Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad unmask authoritarianism in areas such as relationships, cults, 12-step groups, religion, and contemporary morality. Chapters on addiction and love show the insidious nature of authoritarian values and ideologies in the most intimate corners of life, offering new frameworks for understanding why people get addicted and why intimacy is laden with conflict. By exposing the inner authoritarian that people use to control themselves and others, the authors show why people give up their power, and how others get and maintain it.
Download or read book Refractions of Islam in India written by Carl W. Ernst and published by Sage Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of original articles focusing on Islamic spirituality as part of Indian culture, based on new translations of previously unavailable texts. This volume explores Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, and it presents unexpected glimpses into the role of Sufi mystics in the practice of yoga.
Download or read book Yoga written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.
Download or read book The Truth of Yoga written by Daniel Simpson and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga. Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. For example, the word “yoga” does not always mean union. In fact, in perhaps the discipline’s most famous text—the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali—its aim is described as separation: isolating consciousness from everything else. And yoga is not five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed; the earliest evidence of practice dates back about twenty-five hundred years. (Yoga may well be older, but no one can prove it.) The Truth of Yoga is a clear, concise, and accessible handbook for the lay reader that draws upon abundant recent scholarship. It outlines these new findings with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Islam and the Arab Revolutions written by Usaama Al-Azami and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for 'bread, freedom and dignity'. With the passage of time, results have been decidedly mixed, with tentative success stories like Tunisia contrasting with the emergence of even more repressive dictatorships in places like Egypt, with the backing of several Gulf states. Focusing primarily on Egypt, this book considers a relatively understudied dimension of these revolutions: the role of prominent religious scholars. While pro-revolutionary ulama have justified activism against authoritarian regimes, counter-revolutionary scholars have provided religious backing for repression, and in some cases the mass murder of unarmed protestors. Usaama al-Azami traces the public engagements and religious pronouncements of several prominent ulama in the region, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ali Gomaa and Abdullah bin Bayyah, to explore their role in either championing the Arab revolutions or supporting their repression. He concludes that while a minority of noted scholars have enthusiastically endorsed the counter-revolutions, their approach is attributable less to premodern theology and more to their distinctly modern commitment to the authoritarian state.
Download or read book The Butterfly Mosque written by G. Willow Wilson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this satisfying, lyrical memoir,” an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt (Publishers Weekly). Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson now shares her remarkable story of finding faith, falling in love, and marrying into a traditional Islamic family in this “intelligently written and passionately rendered memoir” (The Seattle Times, 27 Best Books of 2010). Despite her atheist upbringing, Willow always felt a connection to god. Around the time of 9/11, she took an Islamic Studies course at Boston University, and found the teachings of the Quran astounding, comforting, and profoundly transformative. She decided to risk everything to convert to Islam, embarking on a journey across continents and into an uncertain future. Settling in Cairo where she taught English, she soon met and fell in love with Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow—with her shock of red hair, shaky Arabic, and Western candor—struggled to forge a “third culture” that might accommodate her values as well as her friends and family on both sides of the divide. Part travelogue, love story, and memoir, “Wilson has written one of the most beautiful and believable narratives about finding closeness with God” (The Denver Post).
Download or read book Yoga and the Body of Christ written by Dave Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Christian should be informed of the true origins and effects of yoga and its ungodly manifestations of Kundalini energywhich literally defined means an awakening of the Serpent Power.
Download or read book Islam Enlightened written by Javed Khan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: after the awakening which takes place spontaneously through Sahaja Yoga, Islam ceases to be a mere doctrine or religious belief but becomes a living experience, an enlightened way of life as ordained by the prophet and willed by the almighty.
