-5% Esaurito Home The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way Autore: Tre Iniziati Oxford University Press 19,00 € 20,00 € The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His... Vedi
-5% Disponibile Home South-Est Asia: Race, Culture and Nation Autore: Hunter Guy Oxford University Press 15,20 € 16,00 € Aggiungi al carrello
-5% Esaurito Home Gurus of Modern Yoga Autore: Tre Iniziati Oxford University Press 28,50 € 30,00 € Within most pre-modern, Indian traditions of yoga, the role of the guru is absolutely central. Indeed, it was often understood that yoga would simply not work without the grace of the guru. The modern period saw the dawn of new, democratic, scientific modes of yoga practice and teaching. While teachings and gurus have always adapted to the times and... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Home Jesuit Letters and Indian History Autore: Correia-Afonso John Oxford University Press 24,70 € 26,00 € Vedi
-5% Disponibile Storia Orientale Indonesia: social and cultural revolution Autore: Alisjahbana Takdir Oxford University Press 17,10 € 18,00 € Aggiungi al carrello
-5% Esaurito Poesia Āb-e ḥayāt Autore: Āzād Muḥammad Ḥusain Oxford University Press 23,75 € 25,00 € Āb-e ḥayāt ('Water of Life ') (1880) by Muḥammad Ḥusain Āzād (1830-1910) has been described as the 'most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century.' Āzād's masterpiece was the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry, and the first -and incomparably the most influential - modern literary history. It was also the earliest attempt... Vedi
-5% Disponibile Home The Poetical Works of John Milton Autore: Milton John Oxford University Press 28,50 € 30,00 € This new edition of The Poetical Works of John Milton, including the Latin, Italian, and Greek poems, follows Helen Darbishire's Oxford English Text edition (Clarendon Press, 1952, 1955). It is based on the editions printed under Milton's supervision and contemporary manuscripts have been consulted where tbey survive. Milton was a careful craftsman as... Aggiungi al carrello
-5% Esaurito Dizionari Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary Autore: McGregor R. S. Oxford University Press 19,00 € 20,00 € The new Oxford Hind-English Dictionary is a landmark in the description of Hindi. It is an essential reference for all those concerned with modern Hindi, whether students, scholars, translators, or in professional contexts.The Dictionary reflects the dramatic development of Hindi in the twentieth century, giving extensive coverage of the modern... Vedi
-5% Disponibile India The Oxford English Urdu Dictionary Autore: Haqqee Shanul Haq Oxford University Press 39,90 € 42,00 € Aggiungi al carrello
-5% Esaurito Medio Evo e Rinascimento A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography Autore: Wellesz Egon Oxford University Press 47,50 € 50,00 € The History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography was first published in 1947, and has for ten years been the standard textbook on this subject. Recent progress in this field, however, due in part to the author's own work, has made a second revised and enlarged edition necessary. The sections on Byzantine liturgy and on Byzantine notation have been rewritten... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Islamistica Piety and Politics Autore: Liow Joseph Chinyong Oxford University Press 71,87 € 75,65 € This book challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that tectonic movements and subterranean shifts that underscore the gradual politicization of Islam and the rise of an Islamism in political and popular discourse based on conservatism and orthodoxy have long been at work in Malaysia, despite popular media representations of Malaysia as the epitome of... Vedi
-5% Esaurito India Religion, Science, and Empire Autore: Gottschalk Peter Oxford University Press 60,07 € 63,23 € In Beyond Hindu and Muslim (2000), Peter Gottschalk explored the contexts in which contemporary Indians engage one another through multiple identities, including but not restricted to religious ones. In Religion, Science, and Empire, he investigates historically how Britons and Indians came to characterize the subcontinent as inherently divided into... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Islamistica Old Islam In Detroit Autore: Howell Sally Oxford University Press 30,02 € 31,60 € Detroit, Michigan, is home to several of the nation’s oldest, most diverse Muslim communities. In the early 1900s, thousands of Muslims from Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and British India built the nation’s first mosque in Detroit. By the 1930s, new Islam-oriented social movements, like the Nation of Islam, were taking root among African Americans.... Vedi