Product Description: In this book readers are led on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage.Consisting of a selection of writings by a great figure in Islamic history, Imam al-Ghazali, this book helps readers realize the benefits of the upliftment of their spiritual, social, and moral qualities...read more

When Barrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington, D.C.-based literary agent specializing in authors behind the Iron Curtain, suddenly collapses and dies in Heathrow Airport, her friend, CIA operative Colette Cahill, suspects murder.

Product Description: This is the text of a lecture given by Professor Soustelle at the University of Oxford in 1988. It gives an account of the results achieved by French archaeologists and ethnologists in the study of Mexican and other Central American native civilizations...read more

Product Description: Give your students ample practice with their writing skills with these supplementary exercise books. Levels increase with the ability of children beginning with simple letters in isolated positions, then progress to 2-3 letter words, and finally to simple Arabic and Islamic expressions...read more

Product Description: This work shows the traditional method of spiritual chivalry of assuming the positive traits or virtues of God's Most Beautiful Names. Known as moral self-healing (attaining muruwwah), it occurs psychologically through three stages referred to in this work as three parts...read more

Product Description: Written by Abu Hamid Ghazali in the 11th century, “The Revival of the Religious Sciences” is one of the most authoritative texts in Islamic religious literature. Offering a deeper understanding of Islam and its practices, this record contains the only English translation of an essential section from this magnum opus...read more

Product Description: Seven contemporary Sufi women are interviewed and their responses are compared to traditional psychology. This book has received rave reviews by main stream America because it shows how Western women come to submission to God's Will (islam) and then sought the further dimension of commitment to inner change as part of the Sufi way of purification of the soul (tazkiyah-i nafs)...read more

Product Description: Pocas autoridades espirituales del Islam resultan tan apasionantes y suscitan tanto interés en Oriente y Occidente como el célebre Ibn Arabi, probablemente ningún otro autor sufí haya ejercido una influencia más profunda y perdurable en la vida intelectual del Islam durante estos siete últimos siglos...read more

Product Description: The translator presents the best known tales from the Mathnawi in a compelling prose format. Among the stories are Prophet Moses and Pharaoh, Prophet Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Prophet Joseph, the Story of Bilal, the Dervish and the Hidden Treasure and many more.

Product Description: Resident artists, journalists, and musicians share their indispensable insights into Italy's most famous region in this brand-new guide filled with the best music, films, and festivals in Florence. Offering complete coverage of the beautiful towns, villages, museums, and churches throughout the area, this guide supplies readers with up-to-the-minute information about the region's cultural activities and specialist activities, ranging from wine-tasting to hiking to hang gliding...read more

This is the first extensive study of ecological virtue ethics and the new rhetoric of environmentalists. Based on a wide-ranging survey of environmental literature, Louke van Wensveen offers an overview of current "green" virtue language and proposes the basic elements of a matching ecological virtue theory, dubbed "dirty virtues" by ecological philosophers.Environmental ethics is not exhausted by debates about the need to preserve rivers, our duties to bioregions, and the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature; rather, ecoliterature also contains a rich virtue language. Highlighting the integrity, diversity, internal tensions, dynamism, and visionary character of this ecological virtue language, the author shows both its historical roots and innovative features. Van Wensveen illustrates a widespread awareness of attitudes and habits that help or harm our relations with the nonhuman world. She includes a unique catalog of 189 virtues and 174 vices that mark the vision and praxis of people committed to ecological flourishing.The second part of Dirty Virtues presents carefully crafted criteria to help discern genuine virtue and vice in an ecological age. Her arguments are distinguished by a critical balance of moral sources, including Aristotelian virtue theory, Christian tradition, women's experiences, psychological theory, and metaphorical representations of nonhuman nature.Methodologically innovative and boldly interdisciplinary, Dirty Virtues will challenge and inspire virtue theorists, as well as environmental ethicists and theologians.

Product Description: This book seeks to explore the divine institution of fasting in Islam by providing comprehensive information on its place in the Islamic doctrine and on the month of Ramadan in which fasting is observed. Major topics include fasting in Islam and other faiths; merits and benefits of fasting; types of fasts; charity in Ramadan; fasting and health...read more

Product Description: The Koran is culturally important prophetic literature, and is the foundation for the Islamic faith. It also forms the basis of the way of life in all Muslim societies.Title provides a rendition of the Holy Koran, in English, for readers who would like to inform themselves about what the Koran says...read more

'A study of the key characteristics and qualities of the Prophet Muhammad, considered by a contemporary Western convert to Islam'--Provided by publisher.