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In a world of increasingly confused ethics, "Living Ethically"
looks back over the centuries for guidance from Nagarjuna, one of
the greatest teachers of the Mahayana tradition. Drawing on the
themes of Nagarjuna's famous scripture, Precious Garland of Advice
for a King, this book explores the relationship between an ethical
lifestyle and the development of wisdom. Covering both personal and
collective ethics, Sangharakshita considers such enduring themes as
pride, power and business, as well as friendship, love and
generosity.
This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of
Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and
a milestone in reconstructing the missing history of legal theory
in the ninth and tenth centuries. It offers a fresh interpretation
of al-Shafii's seminal thought, and traces the development of four
different responses to his hermeneutic, culminating in the works of
Ibn Hazm, Abd al-Jabbar, al-Baqillani, and Abu Yala Ibn al-Farra.
It reveals startling connections between rationalism and
literalism, and documents how the remarkable diversity that
characterized even traditionalist schools of law was eclipsed in
the fifth/eleventh century by a pragmatic hermeneutic that gave
jurists the interpretive power and flexibility they needed to claim
revealed status for their legal doctrines. More than a detailed and
richly documented history, this book opens new avenues for the
comparative study of legal and hermeneutical theories, and offers
new insights into unstated premises that shape and restrict Muslim
legal discourse today. The book is of interest to all occupied with
classical Islam, the development of Islamic law, and comparative
hermeneutical research.
The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association
(JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of
the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned
society for scholars of the Qur'an. JIQSA welcomes article
submissions that explore the Qur'an's origins in the religious,
cultural, social, and political contexts of Late Antiquity; its
connections to various literary precursors, especially the
scriptural and parascriptural traditions of older religious
communities; the historical reception of the Qur'an in the West;
the hermeneutics and methodology of qur'anic exegesis and
translation (both traditional and modern); the transmission and
evolution of the textus receptus; Qur'an manuscripts and material
culture; and the application of various literary and philological
modes of investigation into qur'anic style, compositional
structure, and rhetoric.
The Lieh-Tzu ranks with the Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu as one of the
most eloquent and influential expositions of Taoist philosophy.
This definitive translation by Professor Graham does full justice
to the subtlety of thought and literary effectiveness of the text.
A. C. Graham is one of the most distinguished Sinologists working
today.
Contemporary psychology is highly influenced by positivism and
scientific naturalism. Psychological studies make efforts to
control the variables and provide operational definitions of
subjective constructs in order to reach the most concrete
conclusions. Such efforts are admirable in natural sciences since
they have led to a better life. But, this worldview has deprived
contemporary psychology of more qualitative sources of knowledge
like wahy (revelation). The present book introduces Islamic
psychology as a paradigm, which can apply wahy knowledge and
consider religious/spiritual dimensions of humans in scientific
exploration. The first part discusses the possibility, foundations,
and characteristics of Islamic psychology. The second part
introduces research methodology in Islamic psychology. The third
part reviews the Quranic theory of personality and highlights the
concept of shakeleh. Finally, the fourth part presents the theories
and methods of religious psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition.
Each part provides introductory content for readers interested in
Islamic psychology.
We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the
midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and
divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about
our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better time than
now to reconsider ideas of unity. In The Ethics of Oneness, Jeremy
David Engels reads the Bhagavad Gita alongside the works of
American thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. Drawing on
this rich combination of traditions, Engels presents the notion
that individuals are fundamentally interconnected in their shared
divinity. In other words, everything is one. If the lessons of
oneness are taken to heart, particularly as they were expressed and
celebrated by Whitman, and the ethical challenges of oneness
considered seriously, Engels thinks it is possible to counter the
pervasive and problematic American ideals of hierarchy, exclusion,
violence, and domination.
This is the first critical edition in transcription with facing
English translation of a medieval Sanskrit text that is known in
most parts of India, especially in Bengal. The Krsnakarnamrta
("Nectar to the Ears of Krishna") is a devotional anthology of
stanzas in praise of the youthful Krishna, "the dark blue boy,"
"Lord of Life," lover of the milkmaids in Indian legend, and an
incarnation of the great God Vishnu. Of its importance there can be
no doubt: for many devout Indians it is a Book of Common Prayer,
whose short and ardent hymns to the Lord Krishna come frequently
and familiarly to mind. Frances Wilson here provides a masterly
English translation of this moving expression of religious
adoration. Collating over seventy manuscripts, she has established
an authoritative Sanskrit text, including its literary and critical
history. In the full introduction, she discusses the legends that
have arisen about its author, the mysterious Līlasuka
Bilvamangala. Medieval Sanskrit studies have in the past been much
neglected by European scholars. In breaking free of the classical
traditions of Sanskrit philology, Wilson has produced a work that
is of profound relevance to the study of Indian civilization today.
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