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Public Diplomacy
This paper sharply distinguishes "marketing" encompassed in public diplomacy from the marketing of commercial products, focusing instead on the central roles of constintuencies and adversaries. The authors argue that the antipathy for the U.S. government w as aroused by some U.S. policies of outsourcing some aspects of public diplomacy.
The Formation of Islamic Law
The fourteen studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of Islam. On another level, they reflect the different and, at times, widely divergent scholarly approaches to this subject matter. These two levels combined will offer a useful account of the rise of Islamic law not only for students in this field but also for Islamicists who are not specialists in matters of law, comparative legal historians, and others. At the same time, however, and as the Introduction to the work argues, this collection of distinguished contributions illustrates both the achievements and the shortcomings of paradigmatic scholarship on the formative period of Islamic law.
Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought
Questions about the authenticity and authority of sunna have long been of central importance to the study of Islam, especially to those concerned with Islamic law. In this fascinating study, Daniel Brown traces the emergence of modern debates over sunna, focusing in particular on Egypt and Pakistan where these controversies have raged most fiercely, and assesses the implications of new approaches to the law on contemporary movements of Islamic revival. Using the case of modern Islam as a starting-point, the author considers how adherents of any great tradition deal with change.
Death and Burial in the Roman World
The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
Light of the Heart
Light of the Heart (Anwar al-Qulub) is the companion volume to the modern Sufi classic Irshad. Finally, this long-awaited translation is available in English. Within its pages the accomplished spiritual guide, Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak, explores and illumines the mystical dimension of the great world religion of Islam. Over the centuries Sufi teachers have used many literary forms to convey Sufism's mystical heart. Like Irshad, Light of the Heart is written in the time-honored form of Sufi discourses. Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak seamlessly interweaves spiritual disquisition with personal anecdotes, traditional teaching stories, poetry and interpretations of passages from the Koran and the Hadith. Light of the Heart encompasses the universal themes of faith, repentance, gratitude, forgiveness, remembrance, worship and love. It is essentially an invitation to all humanity to the mystic path of Divine Love. Spiritual seekers from every religious tradition can find sustenance in the wisdom of Sheikh Muzaffer. As he says, "When the flames of divine love appear in the heart, when heart and body are directed toward the Truth Most High, that is the beginning of all felicity".
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Books that Changed the World
From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created.
Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire
From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name ...
