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POSTMODERN MATERIALISM AND THE FUTURE OF MARXIST THEORY
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ISBN: 0819562920
Publisher: WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS -
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REALIZATION OF IQBAL’S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN MINTESSORI SYSTEM
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ISBN: 9789694164052
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REFERRING TO GOD
₨ 12,340There is a long tradition of discussion in the philosophy of religion about the problems and possibilities involved in talking about God. This book presents accounts of the problem within Jewish and Christian philosophy.
ISBN: 0700710795
Publisher: CURZON -
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RUMI’S LITTLE BOOK OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER : TEACHING STORIES AND FABLES
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SCIENCE AND THE INDIAN TRADITION
₨ 1,833During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, India experienced an intellectual renaissance that owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. This book examines the effects of the introduction of Western science in India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and Western science. It charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. Ii looks at the detailed beliefs of Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, SN. Bose and P.C. Roy, and reflects upon how individual scientists could accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. It discusses some of the adaptations of traditional Indian beliefs with insights from Western science, in particular the place of science within the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore and the 1930 discussions between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. It is argued that the Hindu, Muslim and Christian philosophical and religious traditions have nothing to fear from scientific theories such as evolution and a unified field theory; indeed they may be mutually compatible.
Overall, this book provides a detailed assessment of the results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and philosophy, historians of science and those interested in the interactions between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.
ISBN: 0415402095
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SUFISM: A NEW HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM
₨ 3,345“This is the best study to date of how Sufism has been conceptualized and interpreted by a wide variety of insiders and outsiders down into modern times.”—William Chittick, Stony Brook University
“Alexander Knysh provides an unprecedented account of the history of Sufi movements and the scholarship on Sufism. Western academics and Muslims, elites and masses, outsiders and insiders—all are brought together in this insightful survey of Sufi discourse, practice, community, institutions, and leadership. A tour de force, this should become the defining book on Sufism.”—Bruce B. Lawrence, author of The “Koran” in English: A Biography
“This groundbreaking and beautifully written book by a towering scholar in Islamic studies is nuanced and convincing. A model of how to approach a world religion such as Islam from inside and outside, it will remain a reference on Sufism for years to come.”—Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut
ISBN: 9780691191621
Publisher: PRINCETON -
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TALES FROM LAND OF THE SUFIS
₨ 2,295Take a magic carpet ride into the delightful world of Sufi storytelling with these best-loved tales from Persian literature and lore, in which images of madness, passionate love, and self-sacrifice convey the inner experiences of the soul that has surrendered to the Divine Beloved. The tales are retold from the celebrated works of Sufi poets and spiritual masters such as Rumi, Attar, Nizami, and Jami, as well as anecdotes about these famous masters.
ISBN: 9781570628917
Publisher: SHAMBHALA -
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THE ACT OF BEING
₨ 9,907This illuminating study by Christian Jambet explores the essential elements of the philosophical system of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi’ite of the seventeenth century. The writings of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1640) bear witness to the divine revelation in every act of being, from the most humble to the most celebrated. More generally, Islamic philosophy employs ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of metaphysics, an ontology that belongs to our own universe of thought. The Act of Being nourished by the Sufism of Ibn al-‘Arabi, the philosophy of classical Islam, the thought inherited from the Greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimension of Shi’ism, seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real.
Mulla Sadra saw the world as moving ceaselessly in an uninterrupted revolution of its substances, in which infinite existence breaks through the successive boundaries of the sensible and the intelligible, the mineral and the angelic. In a flourish of epiphanies, in the multiplied mirror of bodies and souls, Mulla Sadra perceived absolute divine liberty. Revealing freedom in the metamorphosis of the believer and the sage, existence teaches the imitation of the divine that can be seen “in its most beautiful form.” Reading Mulla Sadra reveals the nexus of politics, morality, liberty, and order in his universe of thought–a universe, as Christian Jambet shows, that is indispensable to our understanding of Islamic thought and spirituality.
ISBN: 1890951692
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THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
₨ 5,075COMPILED BY DISCIPLES OF CONFUCIUS in the fourth century B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of the Confucian tradition: learning, morality, ritual decorum, and filial piety. Reflecting the model eras of Chinese antiquity, the book is valued for its insights into the successful governance of the empire and its ideal organization of society. It has also been used for many centuries as a beginning text in the learning of classical Chinese.
Filled with humour and sarcasm the Analects reads like a casual conversation between teacher and student, emphasizing the role of the individual in the attainment of knowledge and the value of using historical events and people to illuminate complex moral and political concepts. Confucius’s teachings focus on cultural and peaceful pursuits and the characteristics of benevolent and culturally distinguished government. He also discusses ancestor worship and other rites performed for the spirits of the dead and the importance of filial piety in cultivating one‘s moral and ethical development.
The single most influential philosophical work in all of Chinese history, The Analects of Confucius has shaped the thought and customs of China for centuries and has played a key role in the development of nearby countries, such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Burton Watson’s concise translation uses the pinyin system of Romanization and keeps explanatory notes to a minimum, yet his intimate knowledge of the Confucian tradition and precise attention to linguistic detail capture all the elegance, cogency, and wit of the original text, which continues to exert tremendous influence.
ISBN: 0231141642
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THE ART OF WAR
₨ 150Written in ancient China some 2500 years ago, The Art of War is arguably the most definitive work on military strategy. wonder if it has been a source of inspiration to the rulers and commanders of ancient China and Japan and the likes of Napoleon, Mao Zedong, General Giap and Douglas MacArthur in recent times. Today, it is exceedingly popular outside the military circles too. Whether it be politics, business or life in general, the leadership lessons of The Art of War are invaluable in shaping the lives of the aspiring leaders in every walk of life.
ISBN: 9789699903038
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS -
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THE BAUMGARTEN CORRUPTION: FROM SENSE TO NONSENSE IN ART AND PHILOSOPHY
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ISBN: 0745309925
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THE BIRTH OF THE CLINIC
₨ 1,870In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitude–in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death.
ISBN: 9780679753346 – Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
ISBN: 9780679753346
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