Libros de la editorial CURZON PRESS

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  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION AND RELIGION

    NETTON, IAN RICHARD

    CURZON PRESS (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1588-6
    • EAN: 9780700715886
    • Páginas: 1000
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.140,00 €

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    Condition: New. As New. NUEVO. COMO NUEVO.The Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion provides scholarly coverage of the religion, culture and history of the Islamic world, at a time when that world is undergoing considerable ...

  • MANAGING POLITICS AND ISLAM IN INDONESIA

    PORTER, DONALD J

    CURZON PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1736-1
    • EAN: 9780700717361
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.138,00 €

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    This book examines the politics of Islam and the state in Indonesia over recent decades, during which time there has been a notable resurgence of Islamic political movements. It argues that after a period in ...

  • DIVINE LOVE IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM THE TEACHINGS OF AL-GHAZALI AND AL-DABBAGH

    ABRAHAMOV, B.

    CURZON PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1607-4
    • EAN: 9780700716074
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.106,00 €

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    The two theories of divine love that are examined in this book have their foundations in Greek, Jewish, Christian and Muslim ideas. Al-Ghazâlî (12th century) was influenced mainly by Plato and Ibn Sina's teachings, while ...

  • TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT

    MORTADA, H.

    CURZON PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1700-2
    • EAN: 9780700717002
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.110,00 €

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    Written with the non-Muslim reader in mind, this book analyses the principles and values established by Islamic tradition to govern the social and physical environments of Muslims.
    The picture of Islam that emerges from this ...

  • THE ALEVIS IN TURKEY THE EMERGENCE OF A SECULAR ISLAMIC TRADITION

    SHANKLAND, DAVID

    CURZON PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1606-7
    • EAN: 9780700716067
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.146,00 €

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    This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and is based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly high profile for those interested in the diverse cultures ...

  • BOOKS OF DEFINITION IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY THE LIMITS OF WORDS

    KENNEDY-DAY, K.

    CURZON PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1723-1
    • EAN: 9780700717231
    • Páginas: 216
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.130,00 €

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    Islamic Philosophy has unusual origins. Originally a hybrid of Greek philosophy and early Islamic theology, its technical language consisted of a number of words translated from the Greek. This book studies how Islamic philosophers of ...

  • PERSIAN GRAMMAR

    MACE, JOHN

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1695-1
    • EAN: 9780700716951
    • Páginas: 228
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.35,00 €

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    This is a clear and user-friendly guide to Persian grammar, both of the written and spoken languages, especially useful for those in the early stages of studying the Persian language. It serves as a revision ...

  • ISLAM AND COLONIALISM "WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON SOVIET ASIA"

    MYER, WILL

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1765-1
    • EAN: 9780700717651
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.149,00 €

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    By the late 1980s it was a widely held view in the West that the single greatest threat to the USSR was an Islamic inspired revolt in Central Asia. This did not occur. Myer seeks ...

  • ISLAM IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION "MUSLIM ATTITUDES TOWARDS MODERNITY AND IDENTITY"

    MEULEMAN, JOHAN

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1691-3
    • EAN: 9780700716913
    • Páginas: 432
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.138,00 €

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    'The book will draw the attention of specialists students of Islamic Studies, social sciences, and the humanities as well as the general educated public interested in subjects so diverse as development, modernization, globalization, intercultural contacts, ...

  • JIHAD AND HIS INNTERPRETATIONS IN PRE-COLONIAL MOROCCO

    BENNISON, AMIRA K.

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1693-7
    • EAN: 9780700716937
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.85,00 €

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    This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society ...

  • FROM SYNAGOGUE TO CHURCH: THE TRADITIONAL DESIGN

    WILKINSON, J.

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1320-2
    • EAN: 9780700713202
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.142,00 €

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    The designs of synagogues and churches are acknowledged to be very alike. But the designers' procedure was confidential, and so far standard explanations have been unsatisfactory. A synagogue should express heavenly values with earthly materials. ...

  • THE ARABS IN ANTIQUITY: THEIR HISTORY FROM THE ASSYRIANS TO THE UMAYYADS

    RETSÖ, J.

    CURZON PRESS (2002)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1679-1
    • EAN: 9780700716791
    • Páginas: 380
    • Fecha de edición: 2002

    pvp.210,00 €

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    The history of the Arabs in antiquity from their earliest appearance around 853 BC until the first century of Islam, is described in this book. It traces the mention of people called Arabs in all ...

  • THE POLITICS OF SOUTHEASTS ASIA'S NEW MEDIA

    ATKINS, WILLIAM

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1516-9
    • EAN: 9780700715169
    • Páginas: 235
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.98,72 €

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    The past decade has seen a major structural shift in broadcasting in Southeast Asia, with the development of digital satellite and cable broadcasting - often involving major international media corporations, such as the BBC, Ted ...

  • MOORISH POETRY

    ARBERRY, A.J.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1428-5
    • EAN: 9780700714285
    • Páginas: 220
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.74,00 €

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    Seven hundred and fifty years ago, this anthology of small masterpieces of renowned Moorish poets from Muslim Spain, North Africa and Sicily was compiled by Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. The text ...

  • HARMONY GARDEN

    SCHMIDT, J.D.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1525-1
    • EAN: 9780700715251
    • Páginas: 896
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.77,00 €

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    This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an ...

  • DEBATES ON ISLAM AND KNOWLEDGE IN MALAYSIA AND EGYPT

    ABAZA, M.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1505-3
    • EAN: 9780700715053
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.96,16 €

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    This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of ...

  • HISPANO-ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE EARLY PROVENCAL LYRICS

    ABU-HAIDAR, J.A.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1015-7
    • EAN: 9780700710157
    • Páginas: 260
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.145,00 €

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    As the distinctive contribution of Islamic Spain to Arabic literature, the strophic muwashshahand zajal are still viewed by some as a development from putative Romance prototypes. No less than seven theories of origin of the ...

  • MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN ISLAM JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

    INGLIS, J.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1469-8
    • EAN: 9780700714698
    • Páginas: 350
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.123,81 €

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    An initial chapter on the history of Islamic philosophy sets the stage for sixteen articles on issues across the three traditions. The goal is to see the Islamic tradition in its own richness and complexity ...

  • THE PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS OF ALFARABI, AVICENNA AND AVERROES

    KEMAL, S.

    CURZON PRESS (2001)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7007-1348-6
    • EAN: 9780700713486
    • Páginas: 362
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

    pvp.102,00 €

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    This book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between ...