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An Ocean Without Shore
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Sufismo

An Ocean Without Shore

Chodkiewicz Michel
State University of New York Press
17,10 € 18,00 €
An Ocean Without Shore is a study of Ibn Arabi, known in Islam as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the Greatest Spiritual Master. In the introduction, Chodkiewicz provides a good deal of documentation for the often heard claim that Ibn Arabi has been the most influential thinker in Islam over the past seven hundred years. He shows that this has been true, not only...
Advice on the Art of Governance
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India

Advice on the Art of Governance

Bāqir Najm-i Sānī Muḥammad
State University of New York Press
28,50 € 30,00 €
Advice on the Art of Governance portrays the political thinking of the Mughals and exemplifies Indo-Islamic political subtlety. Written by a high-ranking Mughal noble in the early seventeenth century, it discusses the ruler, the state, the nobility, justice, the religious elite, the strata of society, and the various skills required for managing the...
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge
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Filosofia e Storia del Pensiero

The Sufi Path of Knowledge

Chittick William C.
State University of New York Press
34,20 € 36,00 €
"For the first time in the history of Orientalism, a thorough study of Ibn al-'Arabi's thought is now available. William Chittick has given us a translation of numerous passages from the work of the Magister Magnus and placed them in their theological context, thus removing many misunderstandings that have prevailed both among Muslims and in the West when...
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The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine
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The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine

Tanaka Kenneth K.
State University of New York Press
30,40 € 32,00 €
"Tanaka discusses a very important issue in Chinese Buddhism in an innovative way. The text that he has translated is Hui-yuan's Commentary on the Sutra of Visualization on the Buddha of Immeasurable Life, which is not only the oldest extant commentary on this sutra, but also the key text in the history of Pure Land Buddhism in China. In light of the...
Buddhahood Embodied
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Storia delle religioni

Buddhahood Embodied

Makransky John J.
State University of New York Press
23,75 € 25,00 €
Provides many new translations of original texts formative of Mahayana concepts of Enlightenment and resolves the 1200-year-old controversy between Indian and Tibetan views of the meaning of buddhahood.To enter the Mahayana Buddhist path to enlightenment is to seek both to become free from our dualistic, deluded world and to remain actively engaged in...
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A Living Tree
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Ebraistica

A Living Tree

Dorff Elliot N.
State University of New York Press
30,40 € 32,00 €
This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the...
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation
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Islamistica

Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation

Kogan Barry S.
State University of New York Press
23,75 € 25,00 €
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates about causation - debates that took place over several generations between the philosophers and the...
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