The Call Of The Minaret

Author : Kenneth Cragg
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781851682102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Minaret written by Kenneth Cragg and published by Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the Muslim call to prayer as his starting point, the author unravels the significance of the muezzin's haunting cry, considering prophethood, prayer, politics and community to present a more complete understanding of Islam. It becomes clear that the Islamic call to prayer transcends the boundaries of religion, containing a summons for Christians and Muslims alike. Bringing new perspective to interfaith relations, this revealing book with appeal to the faithful throughout the world.

Author : Kenneth Cragg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Minaret written by Kenneth Cragg and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
ISBN 13 : 9781474437226
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minaret written by Jonathan M. Bloom and published by Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, he reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret and provides a sweeping historical and geographical tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.

Author : Hena Khan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452155720
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets written by Hena Khan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets — Islamic book for kids "A beautiful picture book that simultaneously explores shapes, Islam, and the cultures of the Muslim people." — Kirkus Reviews Toddler book of shapes and Islamic traditions: From a crescent moon to a square garden to an octagonal fountain, this breathtaking picture book celebrates the shapes—and traditions—of the Muslim world. Toddler book by author Hena Khan: Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets is equally at home in a classroom reading circle and on a parent's lap being read to a child. If you and your child like books such as Lailah’s Lunchbox, Numbers Colors Shapes, or The Name Jar, you will love Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets.

Author : Albert Kenneth Cragg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Minaret written by Albert Kenneth Cragg and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alifa Rifaat
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478615494
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories written by Alifa Rifaat and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories. Rifaat (1930–1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya’s despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of “At the Time of the Jasmine,” are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam.

Author : Christopher Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call to Retrieval written by Christopher Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Cragg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Minaret. 2nd Ed written by Kenneth Cragg and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 0801064309
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Answering Islam written by Norman L. Geisler and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apologetic guide compares the major tenets of Islam with Christianity.

Author : Leila Aboulela
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199240
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minaret written by Leila Aboulela and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautiful, daring, challenging novel” of a young Muslim immigrant—from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator (The Guardian). Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman—once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London—gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upperclass Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. They find a common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love. Written with directness and force, Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners are only just beginning to understand. “Lit up by a highly unusual sensibility and world view, so rarefied and uncompromising that it is likely to throw the reader out of kilter . . . Her delicacy of touch is to be complimented.” —Chandrahas Choudhury, San Francisco Chronicle