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A Prophet Has Appeared
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Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-03-02
A Prophet Has Appeared written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Religion categories.
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This collection provides students and scholars with carefully selected, introduced, and annotated materials from non-Islamic sources dating to the early years of Islam. These can be read alone or alongside the Qur'an and later Islamic materials. Applying historical-critical analysis, the volume moves these invaluable sources to more equal footing with later Islamic narratives about Muhammad and the formation of his new religious movement. Included are new English translations of sources by twenty authors, originally written in not only Greek and Latin but also Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic and spanning a geographic range from England to Egypt and Iran. Ideal for the classroom and personal library, this sourcebook provides readers with the tools to meaningfully approach a new, burgeoning area of Islamic studies.
The Death Of A Prophet
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Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-11-29
The Death Of A Prophet written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-29 with Religion categories.
The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the first systematic study of the various traditions. Using methods and perspectives borrowed from biblical studies, Shoemaker concludes that these reports of Muhammad's leadership during the Palestinian invasion likely preserve an early Islamic tradition that was later revised to meet the needs of a changing Islamic self-identity. Muhammad and his followers appear to have expected the world to end in the immediate future, perhaps even in their own lifetimes, Shoemaker contends. When the eschatological Hour failed to arrive on schedule and continued to be deferred to an ever more distant point, the meaning of Muhammad's message and the faith that he established needed to be fundamentally rethought by his early followers. The larger purpose of The Death of a Prophet exceeds the mere possibility of adjusting the date of Muhammad's death by a few years; far more important to Shoemaker are questions about the manner in which Islamic origins should be studied. The difference in the early sources affords an important opening through which to explore the nature of primitive Islam more broadly. Arguing for greater methodological unity between the study of Christian and Islamic origins, Shoemaker emphasizes the potential value of non-Islamic sources for reconstructing the history of formative Islam.
A Prophet Has Appeared
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Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2021-03-02
A Prophet Has Appeared written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Religion categories.
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This collection provides students and scholars with carefully selected, introduced, and annotated materials from non-Islamic sources dating to the early years of Islam. These can be read alone or alongside the Qur'an and later Islamic materials. Applying historical-critical analysis, the volume moves these invaluable sources to more equal footing with later Islamic narratives about Muhammad and the formation of his new religious movement. Included are new English translations of sources by twenty authors, originally written in not only Greek and Latin but also Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic and spanning a geographic range from England to Egypt and Iran. Ideal for the classroom and personal library, this sourcebook provides readers with the tools to meaningfully approach a new, burgeoning area of Islamic studies.
The Prophet
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Author : Kahlil Gibran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Mysticism categories.
The Book Of The Jihad Of Ali Ibn Tahir Al Sulami D 1106
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Author : Niall Christie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Book Of The Jihad Of Ali Ibn Tahir Al Sulami D 1106 written by Niall Christie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
In 1105, six years after the first crusaders from Europe conquered Jerusalem, a Damascene Muslim jurisprudent named ’Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) publicly dictated an extended call to the military jihad (holy war) against the European invaders. Entitled Kitab al-Jihad (The Book of the Jihad), al-Sulami’s work both summoned his Muslim brethren to the jihad and instructed them in the manner in which it ought to be conducted, covering topics as diverse as who should fight and be fought, treatment of prisoners and plunder, and the need for participants to fight their own inner sinfulness before turning their efforts against the enemy. Al-Sulami’s text is vital for a complete understanding of the Muslim reaction to the crusades, providing the reader with the first contemporary record of Muslim preaching against the crusaders. However, until recently only a small part of the text has been studied by modern scholars, as it has remained for the most part an unedited manuscript. In this book Niall Christie provides a complete edition and the first full English translation of the extant sections (parts 2, 8, 9 and 12) of the manuscript of al-Sulami’s work, making it fully available to modern readers for the first time. These are accompanied by an introductory study exploring the techniques that the author uses to motivate his audience, the precedents that influenced his work, and possible directions for future study of the text. In addition, an appendix provides translations of jihad sermons by Ibn Nubata al-Fariqi (d. 985), a preacher from Asia Minor whose rhetorical style was highly influential in the development of al-Sulami’s work.
Seven Doors To Islam
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Author : John Renard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Seven Doors To Islam written by John Renard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Religion categories.
Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to communicate religious values. Each of the seven chapters opens a "door" that leads progressively closer to the very heart of Islam, from the foundational revelation in the Qur'an to the transcendent experience of the Sufi mystics. However, unlike most studies of Islam, which see spirituality as the concern of a minority of mystical seekers, Seven Doors demonstrates its central role in every aspect of the Islamic tradition.
The Apocalypse Of Empire
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Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The Apocalypse Of Empire written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with Religion categories.
In The Apocalypse of Empire, Stephen J. Shoemaker argues that earliest Islam was a movement driven by urgent eschatological belief that focused on the conquest, or liberation, of the biblical Holy Land and situates this belief within a broader cultural environment of apocalyptic anticipation. Shoemaker looks to the Qur'an's fervent representation of the imminent end of the world and the importance Muhammad and his earliest followers placed on imperial expansion. Offering important contemporary context for the imperial eschatology that seems to have fueled the rise of Islam, he surveys the political eschatologies of early Byzantine Christianity, Judaism, and Sasanian Zoroastrianism at the advent of Islam and argues that they often relate imperial ambition to beliefs about the end of the world. Moreover, he contends, formative Islam's embrace of this broader religious trend of Mediterranean late antiquity provides invaluable evidence for understanding the beginnings of the religion at a time when sources are generally scarce and often highly problematic. Scholarship on apocalyptic literature in early Judaism and Christianity frequently maintains that the genre is decidedly anti-imperial in its very nature. While it may be that early Jewish apocalyptic literature frequently displays this tendency, Shoemaker demonstrates that this quality is not characteristic of apocalypticism at all times and in all places. In the late antique Mediterranean as in the European Middle Ages, apocalypticism was regularly associated with ideas of imperial expansion and triumph, which expected the culmination of history to arrive through the universal dominion of a divinely chosen world empire. This imperial apocalypticism not only affords an invaluable backdrop for understanding the rise of Islam but also reveals an important transition within the history of Western doctrine during late antiquity.
God Has Spoken Again
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Author : Marshall Vian Summers
language : en
Publisher: Society for the New Message
Release Date : 2015-09-07
God Has Spoken Again written by Marshall Vian Summers and has been published by Society for the New Message this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with Religion categories.
This book contains the opening words of a New Message from God. In the pages that follow, God is speaking to humanity anew, providing a warning, a blessing and a preparation for the great change that is coming to the world. God has spoken again at a time of great need and difficulty worldwide. This is a Divine answer to the growing crises of war, unrelenting climate change, religious conflict, and human suffering and deprivation now escalating around the world. The New Message from God is a living communication from God to the heart of every man, woman and child on Earth. The Word and the Sound are in the world again. We are living at a time of Revelation.
The Prophet
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Author : Kahlil Gibran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-19
The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-19 with categories.
The Prophet is a short book, that can be read in less than 1 hour by the average reader; however, it's packed with gold nuggets of wisdom for all of us to use in our day to day lives. If you've read it in the past, but don't own a copy, this is a great time to get one? While you're at it you may as well buy a few as inexpensive gifts for your loved ones too. These books make a great gift to honor their important life events:18th birthday, graduation, wedding, buying a new house (house warming gift for the home library), and even as a secondary gift for a baby shower or as part of a summer reading program. Here is the list of the chapters \ subjects that it covers: ON LOVE ON MARRIAGE ON CHILDREN ON GIVING ON EATING AND DRINKING ON WORK ON JOY AND SORROW ON HOUSES ON CLOTHES ON BUYING AND SELLING ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ON LAWS ON FREEDOM ON REASON AND PASSION ON PAIN ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE ON TEACHING ON FRIENDSHIP ON TALKING ON-TIME ON GOOD AND EVIL ON PRAYER ON PLEASURE ON BEAUTY ON RELIGION ON DEATH The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print in almost 100 years of being enjoyed by millions of readers around the world. The reason it has not gone out of print is that the message is still just as relevant today as it was when it was first written. The book cover has been updated to reflect the modern times, but the prose are identical to the original.,
Mary In Early Christian Faith And Devotion
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Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Mary In Early Christian Faith And Devotion written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with Religion categories.
For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality in Christian devotion. Gathering together fresh information from often neglected sources, including early liturgical texts and Dormition and Assumption apocrypha, Stephen Shoemaker reveals that Marian devotion played a far more vital role in the development of early Christian belief and practice than has been previously recognized, finding evidence that dates back to the latter half of the second century. Through extensive research, the author is able to provide a fascinating background to the hitherto inexplicable “explosion” of Marian devotion that historians and theologians have pondered for decades, offering a wide-ranging study that challenges many conventional beliefs surrounding the subject of Mary, Mother of God.