Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah
Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah
Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah
Prolegomena: Introduktion till världshistorien
Bland arbeten tillkomna under handskrifternas epok är al-Muqaddima unik för bredden och originaliteten i sina analytiska inblickar. Den strävar efter en total överblick över människosläktet och samhällsorganisationens former och drivkrafter, regim...
Ibn Khaldun: Political Thought
Ibn Khaldun is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldun's work was the most impressive endeavour to build a theory out of history ever undertaken before the nineteenth century. However, translators and historians discovered Ibn Khaldun at the time when new revolutionary economic and political conditions were dismissive of his philosophy. In this edition, Gabriel Martinez-Gros brings Ibn Khaldun's political thought to the forefront, exploring his theories in the context of his era, but also emphasizing their profound resonances with modern society. Far from the caricature of Ibn Khaldun as a 'tribal philosopher', Martinez-Gros shows that Ibn Khaldun's thought is about creating wealth in an agrarian society, concerned with economic concepts, demography, war and
Den Lysande Stegen - En Handbok I Logik
Al-Akhdari handbok i logik är en översättning av hans erkända prosodi på 144 rader med tillhörande förklaring. Verket introducerar den grundläggande terminologi och funktion som logikerna använder för att tänka och resonera på ett sammanhängande och korrekt sätt. Inom ramen för islamiska vetenskaper kommer logiken till god användning som stöd vid bland annat studier inom troslära och rättslära. Som Al-Akhdari så fint förmedlar det så fungerar detta verk som allmän introduktion, en stege som man kan använda för att ta sig vidare till att förstå de mer ingående verken i logik.
Al-akhdaris Sammanfattning - Bönens Regler Enligt Malikiskolan
Detta verks tematik kan för den moderna blicken förefalla komplext och svårbegripligt. Boken är i själva verket en svunnen högcivilisations barnbok. I hundratals år studerades verket av muslimska barn i syfte att dra lärdom om en av religionens viktigaste fundament, tidebönen. Visserligen kan boken läsas av den allmänt historieintresserade för att erhålla djupare insikt om en vital praxis i en av världshistoriens viktigaste livsåskådningar men eftersom boken är författad som vägledande praktisk handbok ämnad att frambringa normativ efterlevnad är det så den främst bör läsas. Författaren var ett universalgeni profilerad inom en rad olika vetenskaper. Al-Akhdari var inte bara lärd inom muslimsk teologi och rättsvetenskap men var även en stor poet. I denna bok har han extraherat det allra mest centrala aspekterna i rättslärans regler om renhet och bön och destillerat fram en manual med så få och enkla ord som möjligt. I boken skriver författaren: "Bönen är ett mäktigt ljus som upplyser de bedjandes hjärtan". Dessa ord ramar in hela bokens syfte och mål.
Nomadens ode över livets flyktighet
Arabiens förislamiska kultur uppmärksammas sällan utanför forskarvärldens akademiska ramar. Huvudsyftet med denna bok är att väcka intresse för en viktig period i världslitteraturens historia hos läsare utan förkunskaper i arabisk litteratur eller...
Al-Murshid Al-Mu'een
Al-Murshid Al-Mu'een
Anhalternas bok
Avrättningen av Halláj 922 e.Kr., och senare av hans lärjunge ibn Atá bland andra mystiker, har en social förklaring, där "heretiska" rörelser och "subversiva" läror "underminerade den rådande ordningen" så pass att K...
Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental wor...
Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt
The multi-volume chronicle of the Cairo scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754-1825), known in Arabic as Caja-'ib al-atha-r fi-al-tara-jim wa-al-akhba-r, which translates roughly as The Most Wondrous Achievements: Biographies and Reports of Events, is the single most important primary source for the history of Egypt over nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule (1517-1882). This text, compiled by editor Jane Hathaway to appeal to the general reader as well as scholars of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, is a collection of excerpts from al-Jabarti's history, providing a multifaceted overview of Egyptian society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The selections cover key political developments, including various power struggles and the French occupation, and offer telling glimpses of Egyptian society at large: the role of the Muslim scholar-officials and their interaction with the political authorities; the activities of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, and tribespeople; the
Life of Ibn ?anbal
The Life of Ibn ?anbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawz? (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. A?mad ibn ?anbal (d. 24...
Consorts of the Caliphs
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day cal...
Consorts of the Caliphs
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day cal...
Book of Idols
Here, in the translation and edition of Nabih A. Faris of the American University at Beirut, is the text of the unique Arabic source on the idols and worship of pagan Arabia. The influence of pagan Arabia on the development of Islam is increasingl...
Qatar
Qatar
Kalilah and Dimnah
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffa? in the second/eighth century. The stories are engaging, entertaining, and often funny, from 'The Man Who Found a Treasure But Could Not Keep It,' to 'The Raven Who Tried To Learn To Walk Like a Partridge' and 'How the Wolf, the Raven, and the Jackal Destroyed the Camel.' Kalilah and Dimnah is a 'mirror for princes,' a book meant to inculcate virtues and discernment in rulers and warn against flattery and deception. Many of the animals who populate the book represent ministers counseling kings, friends advising friends, or wives admonishing husbands. Throughout, Kalilah and Dimnah offers insight into the moral lessons Ibn al-Muqaffa?
THE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL
God will lift you up and give you Paradise if you have a good soul and do not destroy others. This book is the most concise references that can have a big impact on you once you read it. Please do not destroy it. Topics gone into detail include symptoms of the heart's sickness and signs of its health, doing without the pleasures of this world, perseverance, complete reliance on Allah, the life of this world, to mention only a few. Excellent read
Kalila Wa Dimna
Kalila Wa Dimna
All About Islam: Muslim Kids Activities Book
All about Islam is an Islamic activities book focusing on major area of Islam. It uses crossword, word search, word grid, quiz and much more to teach children on the acts of ibadah, Sunnah, prayers, angels, other prophets mentioned in the Quran, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) wives and children and more. The book is perfect for kids ages 4-15 and young adults.
Requirements of the Sufi Path
Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khald?n applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khald?n is ...
Sufi Commentary on the Qur'an
A Sufi Commentary on the Qur'an