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The Islamic Law of War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

The Islamic Law of War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

Al-Dawoody examines the justifications and regulations for going to war in both international and domestic armed conflicts under Islamic law. He studies the various kinds of use of force by both state and non-state actors in order to determine the nature of the Islamic law of war.

Had Gadya (חד גידא)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

Had Gadya (חד גידא)

  • Categories: Art

This illustrated version of the popular Passover song "Had gadya" (חד גידא) was the wonderfully playful offspring of the avant-garde artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941). It dates to a little-known period early in his career when he immersed himself in the Jewish cultural renaissance that flourished in Russia from roughly 1912 to the early 1920s. Signed with his Hebrew given name, this volume-with its wraparound cover, colorful lithographic montages, and stylized use of Yiddish and Aramaic words-celebrates Lissitzky's interest in Jewish folk traditions while looking forward to the dynamic graphic and typographic designs for which he is best remembered. This near-scale facsimile-including the rarely seen cover-allows readers to experience Lissitzky's Had gadya as originally envisioned. It is accompanied here by Nancy Perloff's discussion of the work's cultural and artistic contexts, Arnold J. Band's English translation of Lissitzky's Yiddish version of the song, sections on Lissitzky's iconography and vocabulary, and lyrics set to music.

Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. On a deeper level, however, it deals with the perennial problem of change and continuity in the Islamic legal tradition (or any tradition for that matter).

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 730

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 1

Volume 1 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist and scholar of religion, penetrates Islamic mysticism in a way that was previously unknown. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his de...

Sacred Law In The Holy City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Sacred Law In The Holy City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume analyzes the political and socio-economic roles of the Muslim community of Jerusalem in the Ottoman period by focusing upon the rebellion of 1834 against Muhammad Ali from a natural law perspective using the archives of the Islamic court.

Muslim Fortresses in the Levant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

Muslim Fortresses in the Levant

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the development and role of Muslim fortresses in the Levant at the time of the Crusaders and the Mongol invasion, situating the study within a broad historical, political and military context. Exploring the unification of Egypt with a large part of Syria and its effect on the balance of power in the region, Raphael gives a historical overview of the resulting military strategies and construction of fortresses. A detailed architectural analysis i...

Encyclopedia of the Canonical Ḥadīth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 839

Encyclopedia of the Canonical Ḥadīth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: BRILL

An encyclopedic work on Islam with English translations. This book presents a sourcebook of the development of Islam in its various facets during the first three centuries since its foundation. It concludes with an index and glossary of names and concepts, which functions at the same time as a concordance.

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2

Volume 2 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist and scholar of religion, penetrates Islamic mysticism in a way that was previously unknown. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his de...

Islam and Disability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Islam and Disability

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern Muslim scholars tried to reconcile their existence with the concept of a merciful God, and also looks at how people with disabilities might live a dignified and productive life within an Islamic context. In his analysis of Islamic Theology, Ghaly pays attention to how theologians, philosophers and Sufis reflected on the purposes behind the existence of this phenomenon, and how to reconcile the existence of disability with specific divine attributes and an All-Merciful God. Simultaneously exploring the perspective of Muslim jurists, the book focuses on h...

Chess Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Chess Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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