| Weight | 0.33 kg |
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| ISBN | 1851681752 |
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| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Pages | 400 |
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A CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HINDUISM
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ISBN: 1851681752
Publisher: ONE WORLD
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₨ 910
ISBN: 1851681752
Publisher: ONE WORLD
In stock
| Weight | 0.33 kg |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 1851681752 |
| Format | |
| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Author | |
| Author Description | |
| Publisher | |
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In four brief chapters, writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, “I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan.”
Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.
ISBN: 0226285111 – Paperback
Publisher: CHICAGO
ISBN: 0226285111
Publisher: CHICAGO
ISBN: 0140272240
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA
This book is the most important primary source on the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, al-Qadi al-Nu’man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of Ismaili jurisprudence, as well as being perhaps the most prolific and versatile of all the Fatimid thinkers.
The Iftitah is al-Nu’man’s major historical work, and records in detail the background to the establishment of the Fatimid state, first in the Yemen and then in North Africa. It is based on official archival and biographical documents that were accessible to the author at the time, and which have not survived. It is thus a highly significant source on the religious, social and political conditions which prevailed when the Fatimids began to consolidate their rule. In charting the circumstances in which the Fatimid state came into being, this book will be of major interest and value to students of early medieval history and Islamic studies.
ISBN: 1850438854
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
