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Averroes: On the harmony of religion and philosophy [Paperback]
George F. Hourani (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9780718902223
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the... .... Learn More -
Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking [Paperback]
Robert G. Hoyland (Author); Brian Gilmour (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780906094570
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, h... .... Learn More -
Averroes: On the harmony of religion and philosophy [eBook (epub)]
George F. Hourani (Author)
£6.00ISBN: 9780906094839
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the... .... Learn More -
Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking [eBook (PDF)]
Robert G. Hoyland (Author); Brian Gilmour (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780906094976
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, h... .... Learn More -
Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking [eBook (epub)]
Robert G. Hoyland (Author); Brian Gilmour (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9780906094877
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, h... .... Learn More -
The World of Murtada al-Zabidi [Hardback]
Stefan Reichmuth (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780906094600
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Murtada al-Zabidi was a Humanist scholar and a Muslim, whose twelfth-century writings are here examined in the context of their geographical and historical setting. The period when Zabidi was writing saw a shift in the balance of power from the... .... Learn More -
Takhyil: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics [Hardback]
G. J. Van Gelder (Author); M. Hammond (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780906094693
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. This volume is... .... Learn More -
Averroes: Tahafut al Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) [Paperback]
Simon Van den Bergh (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780906094563
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yu... .... Learn More -
Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East [Hardback]
James Montgomery (Author); Anna Akasoy (Author); Peter E. Pormann (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780906094556
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themsel... .... Learn More -
The Qur'an [Paperback]
Alan Jones (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780906094631
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad... .... Learn More