The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Battuta Ibn)(Paperback)

The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Battuta Ibn)(Paperback)

Ibn Battutahethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanistwas just21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering75,000

The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Mackintosh-Smith Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on

Hall of a Thousand Columns (Mackintosh-Smith Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Tim Mackintosh-Smith continues in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah, revealing the rich tales of an India far off the beaten path of Taj and

Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale (Tufayl Ibn)(Paperback)

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided-but also

Ibn Arabi: The Voyage of No Return (Addas Claude)(Paperback)

Ibn Arabi: The Voyage of No Return traces the major events of Ibn Arabi's life: his conversion to Sufism; his travels around Andalusia and the Maghreb; his meetings with the saints of his time; his journey to Mecca; and his travels in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Syria. Through her

Al Muqaddimah: Prolegomena (Ibn Khaldun)(Paperback)

The Muqaddimah, also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena was written by the Arab, North African Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the philosophy of

Ibn Khaldun on Sufism: Remedy for the Questioner in Search of Answers (Khaldun Ibn)(Paperback)

Epistle on Worship: Risalat Al-'Ubudiyya (Ibn Taymiyya Ahmad)(Paperback)

Ibn Taymiyya remains one of the most controversial Islamic thinkers today because of his supposed influence on many fundamentalist movements. The common understanding of his ideas have been filtered through the bits and pieces of his statements, which have been misappropriated by alleged supporters

The Book of Nativities (Ibn Ezra Avraham Ben Meir)(Paperback)

Rabbi Avraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (1089-1164) was a renowned Jewish scholar, whose accomplishments and prolific writing encompassed Biblical exegeses, Hebrew grammar, personal, national and liturgical poetry, philosophy, mathematics, geometry, astronomy and Astrology. In mainstream Judaism he is

Ibn Taymiyya (Hoover Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled against religious innovation. Today, he inspires

Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times (Fromherz Allen James)(Paperback)

A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Ibn Khaldn Ibn)(Paperback)

The Muqaddimah, often translated as Introduction or Prolegomenon, is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald n (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the

Book of Assistance (Al-Haddad Abdallah Ibn Alawi)(Paperback / softback)

Modern Iranian Philosophy: From Ibn S N to Mull Adr Sh R Z (Bashiri Iraj)(Paperback)

Modern Iranian Philosophy: From Ibn Sīnā to Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī is a concise overview of developments in Iranian philosophy from ancient times to the seventeenth century, emphasizing the era beginning with Ibn Sīnā and ending with Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī. The text places Iranian

Medicine of the Prophet (Al-Jawziyya Ibn Qayyim)(Paperback)

Medicine of the Prophet is a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as enshrined in the Qur'an and the hadith, or sayings of the

Of Strangers and Bees - A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale (Ismailov Hamid)(Paperback / softback)

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Irwin Robert)(Paperback)

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the

The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (Ibn Munqidh Usama)(Paperback)

The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness account of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer

Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr (Hallaj Husayn Ibn Mansur)(Paperback)

Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and

Ibn 'arabi and Modern Thought: The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously (Coates Peter)(Paperback)

These penetrating metaphysical and spiritual teachings cross the divides of culture and time, providing unexpectedly modern

Mission to the Volga (Faḍlān Aḥmad Ibn)(Paperback)

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central

Tunes for All?: Music on Danish Radio (Have Iben)(Paperback)

In ten original essays, Danish music and media scholars discuss aspects of music on the radio from the 1920s until today. Understanding music radio as a distributed phenomenon or as a multiplicity, the authors draw upon anthropology, cultural studies and media studies along with sociological and

Ibn 'arabi: Heir to the Prophets (Chittick William C.)(Pevná vazba)

Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of the legendary Spanish-born Sufi writer Ibn Arabi in this new biography. Discussing not only Ibn Arabi's work on the subject of mysticism, Chittick also examines Ibn Arabi's love

Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians (Usaybi'ah Ibn Abi)(Paperback)

To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion. So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first world history of medicine ever attempted. Many