The ancient Athenians were "e;quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity.
In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent Arab migrations to the Fertile Crescent.
Armstrong suggests that Jamess perspective is essentially phenomenological that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists.
The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world.
Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism.
The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organizations men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles.
In a study important to the fields of women's studies and English literature, as well as to the religious and social history of Britain, Deborah Valenze argues the significance of a cottage-based evangelicalism that responded to the transformation of England in the nineteenth century.
The first interdisciplinary textbook to introduce students to three critical areas in applied logicDemonstrating the different roles that logic plays in the disciplines of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, this concise undergraduate textbook covers select topics from three different areas of logic: proof theory, computability theory, and nonclassical logic.
Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption.
A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
The author argues that Foucaults archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics.
In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.
Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.
Best known during the Middle Ages as the prostitute who became a faithful follower of Christ, Mary Magdalen was the most beloved female saint after the Virgin Mary.
Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century.
Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches approach to race.
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century.
The authors identify the general symbol of the Mother Goddess as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings.
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was.
In this unique philosophical critique of modern Western civilization, Adams argues that contemporary culture is deranged by false assumptions about the human mind.
In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism.
In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "e;color-blind"e; policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation.
In large chain bookstores the "e;religion"e; section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica.
Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "e;graven images,"e; the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance.
Seeking Wisdom in Death's Shadows: Collected Writings on How We Grieve is a rich compilation of nine original and fourteen previously published essays that makes accessible the origins and development of Thomas Attig's most significant and sometimes revolutionary contributions to understanding and living in the shadows of death, dying, loss, and grief.
This intellectual biography of the Egyptian Muslim theologian, scholar, and activist, Muhammad al-Ghazali (1917-1996), provides the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most influential Sunni Muslim writers of the twentieth century.
Ce Vade mecum de la version latine est conçu pour être le compagnon de route de tous les latinistes, qu’ils soient débutants ou parvenus aux exigences les plus grandes comme celles des agrégations.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 2, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Evangelische Theologie), Veranstaltung: Augustins Christologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aurelius Augustinus von Hippo (354-430) ist wahrscheinlich der größte und einflussreichste Denker der christlichen Kirche.
Este libro, titulado Sociedad, cultura y religión en la Edad Media, es una obra colectiva que reúne diversas investigaciones presentadas originalmente en el XIII Coloquio de Estudios Medievales de 2023.
At its zenith, the Islamic State was one of the most developed and powerful of the various militant organisations that have emerged within the Middle East in recent decades.
Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: eins, University of Hamburg (Asien Afrika Institut), course: Radical Islam, language: English, abstract: The article deals with the following questions: what does modernity mean for Hamas in the Middle East and how is Hamas responding to the extensive social and political changes and challenges of modern times?
