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This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
"All the Perfumes of Arabia" is a Muslim self-help book that is founded upon the prophetic example. The book explores themes of redemptive suffering, mental and physical health, personal responsibility, family life, and more. Each chapter uses perfume notes to reintroduce readers to aromatherapy, an age-old Islamic medicinal custom. Not only can every heart heal, but the prophetic model allows you to reclaim your life and heal the world. "All the Perfumes of Arabia" re-orients the reader toward Islamic gnosis and praxis, making ancient wisdom applicable and practical in daily life. Discover the Arabian treasure and rediscover your soul."A beautiful, balanced, and inspiring book." -- Dr. John Andrew Morrow, Full Professor of Foreign Languages (retired), Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
There's a 'Hell' traveling on the road searching for 'Purpose'. On one side of the coin, there are many hidden dangers of deception. There is a risk factor, for not knowing what lies ahead of the unseen, for any of them. Love, convictions, lies, and hatred challenge the emotions like a pendulum, not knowing how deep it will cut, or how close it will bring Matri to the bridge between life and death. Being confronted with the character of a snake and a live snake... There's a 'Heaven" traveling on the road searching for 'Purpose.' On the flip side of the coin, there are many rewards upon discovering the need to find 'Purpose'. There is a reward for convictions, faith, trust, and love, patiently challenging what lies ahead of the unseen. There is a satisfaction that is gained and a hidden sweetness of finding out that love is a many splendid thing. “True Love” is like going down into the bottom of the ocean, finding a pearl.
All the King's Falcons draws out Rumi's distinctive and creative insights into Islamic religious culture by focusing on his treatment of prophets as instruments in God's communication with humankind. But there is more to Rumi's views of revelation than meets the eye, for he does not view the prophets, from Adam to Muhammad, merely as historic individuals who lived and died. Stories and images of the prophets provide this mystic and poet with a way of communicating his rich awareness of the reality of the divine message.
Human Costs of War documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the contexts of the War on Terror and the New Cold War. The book offers an understanding of war through the recording and comprehension of its civilian casualties and evaluates whether the force used has been proportionate to the threat that prompted it and the concern for human welfare. In the 21st century, the power of the USA has declined, while countries such as China and India become more powerful. The global power balance has been alte...
For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its bac...
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The communication field is evolving rapidly in order to keep up with society’s demands. As such, it becomes imperative to research and report recent advancements in computational intelligence as it applies to communication networks. The Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application is a pivotal reference source for the latest developments on emerging data communication applications. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as satellite communication, cognitive radio networks, and wireless sensor networks, this book is ideally designed for engineers, professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, and academics seeking current information on emerging communication networking trends.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2015. The 20 full papers and 16 short contributions included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: design and usability; assistive and sentient environments; human behavior and activities monitoring, and health IT and supportive technology. The book also contains 3 invited talks.
The aim of this book is to provide the latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to intelligent social networks and collaborative systems, intelligent networking systems, mobile collaborative systems, secure intelligent cloud systems, etc., and to reveal synergies among various paradigms in the multi-disciplinary field of intelligent collaborative systems. It presents the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2017), held on August 24–26, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. With the rapid evolution of the Internet, we are currentl...