The Mysteries of Purification
Title | The Mysteries of Purification PDF eBook |
Author | Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali |
Publisher | Fons Vitae Al-Ghazali Series |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Faith (Islam) |
ISBN | 9781941610312 |
In The Mysteries of Purification (Kitab asrar al tahara), the third of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'ulum al-din), Abu Hamid al-Ghazali explains the fundamentals of the purification that is necessary in order to perform the five daily prayers.
Mysteries of Purity
Title | Mysteries of Purity PDF eBook |
Author | Ibn al-ʻArabī |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
In this translation of a portion of the fiqh section of the Futuhat al-Makkiyyah, at least two startling key issues emerge. Being startled, in itself, is the first key. And the second is the 'Arabic language' which means that language which the original audience of the Qur'an understood. Also startling are all the twists & turns, all the secrets & mysteries, all the bizarre & strange permutations of the original text. Although the translation is quite literal & over 300 pages, with careful reading special academic preparation is not necessary. This book is a spiritual & intellectual treat, & a great hope for a more authentic & deep Islamic discourse.
The book of knowledge
Title | The book of knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Ghazzālī |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Islamic ethics |
ISBN |
Purity
Title | Purity PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374710740 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
The Mysteries of Purity
Title | The Mysteries of Purity PDF eBook |
Author | Nabih Amin Faris |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1991-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781567441659 |
The Mystery of Prayer
Title | The Mystery of Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004298312 |
Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi’s introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic prayer. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the nature of reality as the countenance of the divine. Drawing upon scriptural sources and the Shīʿah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis.
Purity and Danger
Title | Purity and Danger PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Mary Douglas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136489274 |
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.