Download or read book Thus Spake the Dervish written by Alexandre Papas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.

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Download or read book The United States Democratic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.

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Download or read book Angels Tapping at the Wine Shop s Door written by Rudi Matthee and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess—whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking’s many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to ‘hypocrisy’ or the temptations of ‘forbidden fruit’. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its ‘absence’ as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith—from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdogan’s Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan—he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God—the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources in multiple languages, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.

Download or read book Tales of the Caravan Inn and Palace written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace" by Wilhelm Hauff. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Social Histories of Iran written by Stephanie Cronin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of modern Iran 'from below' focused on subaltern groups and contextualised by developments within Middle Eastern and global history.

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Download or read book Islamic Culture and Pre Islamic Beliefs in Central Asia written by Mihai Dragnea and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of Islam ushered in an era of social and cultural change to the region. Some pre-Islamic sacred places have been transformed into Islamic ones, and the cult of saints absorbed elements of both local and Arab mythology. This volume which is a project initiated by the Balkan History Association, focuses on Islamic culture, traditions, and pre-Islamic beliefs in Central Asia. The chapters emphasize the importance of religious life, the significance of certain “sacred places,” and their role in the socio-spiritual life. The volume includes research spanning a period from antiquity to the Post-Soviet era to explore how landscapes of religious places and practices were interpreted and reinterpreted through time.

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Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell's poems contains, substantially in the order established by the author, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in the Last Poems, collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. - Publisher's note.

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Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.