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Assaig d'introducció al coneixement de l'islam, tant pel que fa a la religió com a la cultura. D'una banda es presenta una perspectiva històrica, des de l'origen a l'actualitat; i, de l'altra, mostra la clau de volta de l'islam des de dos vessants: la xara (o llei de l'islam) i els cinc pilars sobre els quals s'edifica la teologia. Finalment, presenta la mística sufí, la filosofia i el pensament islamics.

El islam es un estudio conciso y de fácil lectura sobre la historia del islam, desde el nacimiento de Mahoma en la Arabia del siglo VII hasta sus diferentes manifestaciones en las distintas sociedades musulmanas del mundo actual. Centrandose especialmente en el periodo moderno, ofrece una valiosa introduccion a las creencias y practicas musulmanas contemporaneas, y explora los distintos modos en que esta religion en expansion continua adaptandose a los desafios del mundo moderno. Incluye un Glosario, un calendario de dias sagrados y festividades y un Indice de nombres.

Muhammad Abdel Haleem'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching it is a sacred text and a book of guidance, that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of the Islamic religion. It has been one of the most influential books in the history of literature. Recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, it has nevertheless remained difficult to understand in its English translations. This new translation is written in a contemporary idiom that remains faithful to the original, making it easy to read while retaining its powers of eloquence. Archaisms and cryptic language are avoided, and the Arabic meaning preserved by respecting the context of the discourse. The message of the Qur'an was directly addressed to all people regardless of class, gender, or age, and this translation is equally accessible to everyone.

Leon Poliakov, George KlinCovering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe. Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 traces the development of a belief among Europe's educated classes in an eventual Jewish domination of the West. Revealing the embedded myths about Jewish bankers and Jewish Bolsheviks in European rhetoric and histories, Poliakov demonstrates that the steady rise in anti-Semitism and suspicion of Jews in the late nineteenth century--highlighted by the Dreyfus affair--and its eventual eruption in the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1920s are part of the same thread of fear and hatred that reaches back to the beginning of the first millennium.

El profesor Nicholson, lector de persa y árabe de la Universidad de Cambridge y profundo conocedor de la tradición mística, despliega en esta obra los ventanales desde donde se contempla uno de los mas bellos panoramas del mundo del espiritu: la vision de Dios manifestada con el ropaje de los poetas y misticos del Islam. Hallaremos aqui la esencia de las doctrinas islamicas y de la tradicion sufi, desde el caracter, origen y desenvolvimiento historico del sufismo y sus relaciones con el Islam hasta sus expresiones, metodos y practicas, pasando por el estudio comparado de las principales religiones del mundo, todo ello ejemplificado a traves de citas escogidas de quienes fueron sus mas destacados exponentes: Ahmad ibn AlHawari, Ibn Al-Arabi, Kashf Al Mahyub, Hafiz, Rabia, Jalaluddin Rumi, Junayd, Omar Khayyam, Abu Said Ibn Abil Khayr, Nari y Bayazid Al-Bistami, entre otros.