This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhy al-Dn Ibn Arab behind the veil of the night.
In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of volkisch nationalist identity, such that with the seizure of power by the Nazis, Luther was used to portray a symbiosis between the new regime and the tradition of Protestant religiosity.
Governing Islam in Austria and Germany argues that the foundations of contemporary policies towards Islam in Austria and Germany are deeply rooted in colonial practices from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Although Lady Harris is acknowledged as the artist of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, to date, most studies have focused predominantly on Harris's role as Crowley's 'artist executant', and almost exclusively from Crowley's perspective.
Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.
Through the fifth and sixth centuries, major divisions rocked Christianity as different factions vied to make their teachings the doctrine of the Roman Empire's imperial church.
This volume of The Cairo School of an Islamic Civilizational Paradigm in International Relations advances the paradigm from intellectual formation to methodological application.
In an age of relentless competition, self-branding, and growing social isolation, we face a pressing question: how can we stop seeing only ourselves and start seeing others?
In many ways, the virtue of courage seems to be one of the most ubiquitous and simple virtues, and that apparent simplicity may result in courage garnering less attention than many other virtues.
Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century.
The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition.
Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century.
Known since the Renaissance as the "e;Christian Cicero,"e; Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apologist, and theologian at the court of Emperor Constantine.
Unlike other works on Glastonbury Abbey, this book examines the lives and relationships of its monks, using methods such as quantitative and network analysis to extract substantial data from records between 900 and 1550.
With religiously motivated violence on the rise, Simran Jeet Singh brings together global experts from inside and outside the Academy to explore one of the most critical questions of our time: how might we learn to share this planet with one another, including those who live and believe differently than we do?
The Unexpected Consequences of State Support for Religion: An Empirical Analysis of Christian-Majority addresses the consequences of one of the most basic decisions a government must make when dealing with religion: the decision to support a state religion or to provide separation of religion and state and religious freedom.
The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Din Lahiji: Sufi Metamorphosis offers a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and spiritual transformations that reshaped Persian Sufism during the late medieval period in Iran.
Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (17031762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Quran, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics.
"e;What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?
Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions explores how magic disappears and miracle emerges in a series of texts featuring the apostle Peter.
This book is a long awaited update to the first major study of a Christian community which has developed an approach to faith and life which is different from all other churches.
"e;What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?
Within contemporary Heathen communities, the Old English term "e;wyrd"e; is used to refer to the web of relations that connect all threads of existence.
The late middle ages was a period of great speculative innovation in Christology, within the framework of a standard Christological opinion established by the Franciscan John Duns Scotus and the Dominican Hervaeus Natalis.
This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean.
