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Qur'an and the Bible Text and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300181326, Yale University Press, May 2018
1032 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Q...
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£30,00
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Questions on Love and Charity Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23-46
ISBN: PB: 9780300195415, Yale University Press, June 2016
432 pp., 21x14 cm
A fresh translation of quaestiones from the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner. This volume provides direct access to the medieval theologian's deepest thinking about the supreme goal of human life – blessedness-and the virtue...
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£19,99
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Qur'ans Books of Divine Encounter
ISBN: PB: 9781851242566, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 19x19 cm, 58 colour illus.
This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts. A general introduction guides the reader through the Qur'an's entry into the world of late near eastern antiquity, a world...
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£14,99
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Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9780226010694, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 25x15 cm
The central question of the Arab Spring – what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East – has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has...
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£26,00
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Quiet Revolution The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
ISBN: PB: 9780300181432, Yale University Press, June 2012
360 pp., 21x14 cm
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, ho...
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£16,99
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Quest History and Meaning in Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226203867, University of Chicago Press, May 1985
187 pp., 23x15 cm
In "The Quest Mircea Eliade" stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by...
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£19,50
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