The Repose Of The Spirits

Author : Ahmad Sam'ani
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473338
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Repose of the Spirits written by Ahmad Sam'ani and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition. The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam‘ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts available in English and is by far the most accessible. It also may well be the longest and the most accurately translated. Ostensibly a commentary on the divine names, it avoids the abstract discourse of theological nitpicking and explains the human significance of the names with a delightful mix of Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet and various past teachers, interspersed with original interpretations of the received wisdom. Unlike the usual books on the divine names (such as that of al-Ghazali), The Repose of the Spirits reminds the reader of the later poetical tradition, especially the work of Rumi. The prose is richly embroidered with imagery and interspersed with a great variety of Arabic and Persian poetry. What is especially remarkable is the manner in which the author speaks to his readers about their own personal situations, explaining why they are driven by a love affair with God, a God who is full of compassion and good humor, whether they know it or not. William C. Chittick’s masterful new translation brings this work to an English-language audience for the first time. “This is a wonderful introduction to the particular style, imagery, terminology, and worldview of Sufism, as well as to the ways in which the Persian cultural milieu added important elements to the Arabic intellectual and spiritual tradition in Islam.” — Maria Massi Dakake, author of The Charismatic Community: Shi‘ite Identity in Early Islam

Author : Ahmad Sam'ānī
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473354
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Repose of the Spirits written by Ahmad Sam'ānī and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts available in English and is by far the most accessible. It also may well be the longest and the most accurately translated. Ostensibly a commentary on the divine names, it avoids the abstract discourse of theological nitpicking and explains the human significance of the names with a delightful mix of Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet and various past teachers, interspersed with original interpretations of the received wisdom. Unlike the usual books on the divine names (such as that of al-Ghazali), The Repose of the Spirits reminds the reader of the later poetical tradition, especially the work of Rumi. The prose is richly embroidered with imagery and interspersed with a great variety of Arabic and Persian poetry. What is especially remarkable is the manner in which the author speaks to his readers about their own personal situations, explaining why they are driven by a love affair with God, a God who is full of compassion and good humor, whether they know it or not. William C. Chittick's masterful new translation brings this work to an English-language audience for the first time.

Author : John Garnier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worship of the Dead written by John Garnier and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pauper burials and the interment of the dead in large cities written by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Jakob Maria Groot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religious System of China: book I. Disposal of the dead written by Jan Jakob Maria Groot and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James George Frazer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the Micronesians written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Belknap Richardson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burial Rites and Cult of the Dead as Found in Virgil written by Helen Belknap Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret M. Lock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926714
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twice Dead written by Margaret M. Lock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse over the past thirty years that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. She compares this situation with that in Japan where, despite the availability of the necessary technology and expertise, brain death was legally recognized only in 1997, and then under limited and contested circumstances. Twice Dead explores the cultural, historical, political, and clinical reasons for the ready acceptance of the new criterion of death in North America and its rejection, until recently, in Japan, with the result that organ transplantation has been severely restricted in that country. This incisive and timely discussion demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. In addition to an analysis of that professional literature on and popular representations of the subject, Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death. By showing that death can never be understood merely as a biological event, and that cultural, medical, legal, and political dimensions are inevitably implicated in the invention of brain death, Twice Dead confronts one of the most troubling questions of our era.

Author : Arvid Serner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On "dyss" Burial and Beliefs about the Dead During the Stone Age written by Arvid Serner and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dead Carl Wickland
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book 30 Years Among the Dead written by Dead Carl Wickland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In offering this volume to the public, there is no desire to promulgate any ism or cult, but to present the records and deductions of thirty years experimental research in the science of normal and abnormal psychology, as the same pertains to the obscure problems of a life hereafter and its relation to human affairs, which all thinking minds must recognize as being of utmost importance. – From the Introduction