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The Quran - With or Against the Bible?: A Topic-By-Topic Review for the Investigative Mind (Hardcover): Ejaz Naqvi The Quran - With or Against the Bible?: A Topic-By-Topic Review for the Investigative Mind (Hardcover)
Ejaz Naqvi
R931 R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Save R117 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Too often we are tempted into thinking how wrong other people's religions and scriptures are, rather than focusing on what's right about our own.

We act like some of our politicians during election campaigns rather than following the teachings of our own holy books. Breaking the trend, author Dr. Ejaz Naqvi provides an objective, topic-by-topic review of the two most read books in the world-the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran.

"The Quran: With or Against the Bible? "addresses the key themes of the Quran and answers commonly asked questions in search of finding common ground: Who wrote the Quran?
Who is the "God" of the Quran?
What is the Quranic view of the prophets, especially Moses and Jesus?
What does the Quran teach about interfaith relations?
Does the Quran promote peace and harmony between Muslims and the People of the Book, or does it promote violence?
How does the Quran compare to the Bible on important themes like worshipping God, the prophets, human rights, moral values, and fighting for justice and human dignity?
Does the Quran render women as second-class citizens?

Dispelling major myths, "The Quran: With or Against the Bible?" systematically analyzes and compares the similarities in the paths of guidance the two scriptures have bestowed upon mankind.

The Book of Jubilees (Hardcover): R. H. Charles The Book of Jubilees (Hardcover)
R. H. Charles; Edited by Paul Schnieders
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God's Scripture - A Faithful Comparison -- What Jews, Christians, and Muslims Must Know (Hardcover): Nader Pourhassan God's Scripture - A Faithful Comparison -- What Jews, Christians, and Muslims Must Know (Hardcover)
Nader Pourhassan
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author, Dr. Nader Pourhassan, has researched the Koran and the Bible in depth for the last twenty years. God's Scripture is the result of his personal disillusionment with Islam as it is manifested in the modern world. The message of the Koran is resoundingly simple. We should believe in God, which would encourage us to love our neighbor. If we do, we will go to Heaven: "Those who do good to men or women and have faith (in God), we will give them life, a pure life, and their reward will be greater than their actions." This message, which is stated clearly over sixty times in the Koran, has been perverted by those who seek to promote themselves as spiritual leaders, with appalling results, most shockingly the attacks on America on September 11, 2001. His disillusionment grew as he learned about the disparity between the holy book and Islam as it is practiced today. Now, more than ever, there is an urgent need for Muslims and non Muslims alike to understand the truth about Islam, and to return to the original message of the Prophet Muhammad, and that of Jesus, that humankind should strive to be good, to love God and one another.

The Living Thoughts Of The Prophet Muhammad (Paperback): Maulana Muhammad Ali The Living Thoughts Of The Prophet Muhammad (Paperback)
Maulana Muhammad Ali
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Koren Sacks Rosh Hashana Mahzor - Standard Size (Hardcover, UK Ed.): The Koren Sacks Rosh Hashana Mahzor - Standard Size (Hardcover, UK Ed.)
R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Qur'an and Biblical Origins (Hardcover): Asher Elkayam The Qur'an and Biblical Origins (Hardcover)
Asher Elkayam
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana - A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra... Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana - A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Daniel Boucher
R1,663 Discovery Miles 16 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume delves into the socio religious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the ""Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra"" (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Buddhism, whose previous efforts to comprehend the tradition have often ignored the social dynamics that motivated some of the innovations of this new literature. Following that is a careful analysis of several motifs found in the Indian text and an examination of the value of the earliest Chinese translation for charting the sutra's evolution.The first part of the study looks at the relationship between the bodily glorification of the Buddha and the ascetic career that produced it within the socioeconomic world of early medieval Buddhist monasticism. Boucher then focuses on a third-century Chinese translation of the sutra and traces the changes in the translation to the late tenth century. He concludes with an annotated translation of the sutra based on a new reading of its earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript.

Bhagavad-Gita (Hardcover): Edwin Arnold Bhagavad-Gita (Hardcover)
Edwin Arnold
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Jasher (Hardcover): J. Asher The Book of Jasher (Hardcover)
J. Asher; Introduction by Fabio De Araujo; Translated by Moses Samuel
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Hardcover): Maren R. Niehoff Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Hardcover)
Maren R. Niehoff
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren R. Niehoff provides a detailed analysis of Alexandrian Bible interpretation, from the second century BCE through newly discovered fragments to the exegetical work done by Philo. Niehoff shows that Alexandrian Jews responded in a great variety of ways to the Homeric scholarship developed at the Museum. Some Jewish scholars used the methods of their Greek colleagues to investigate whether their Scripture contained myths shared by other nations, while others insisted that significant differences existed between Judaism and other cultures. This book is vital for any student of ancient Judaism, early Christianity and Hellenistic culture.

...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover): Simeon J Maslin ...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover)
Simeon J Maslin
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Three Translations of the Bhagavad Gita (Hardcover): Mohandas K. Gandhi Three Translations of the Bhagavad Gita (Hardcover)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Essence of the Quran (Hardcover): Farid Adel The Essence of the Quran (Hardcover)
Farid Adel
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Whiplash of Truth to Bid'ah (Hardcover): M. S. M. Abdullah (Rah) The Whiplash of Truth to Bid'ah (Hardcover)
M. S. M. Abdullah (Rah)
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wisdom Poured Out Like Water - Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini (Hardcover): J. Harold... Wisdom Poured Out Like Water - Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini (Hardcover)
J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W Oliver, Jason Von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell, Jason M. Zurawski
R5,015 Discovery Miles 50 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection presents innovative research by scholars from across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccini's sixtieth birthday and to honor his contribution to the study of early Judaism and Christianity. In harmony with Boccaccini's determination to promote the study of Second Temple Judaism in its own right, this volume includes studies on various issues raised in early Jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g., 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra), the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other early Jewish texts, from Tobit to Ben Sira to Philo and beyond. The volume also provides several investigations on early Christianity in intimate conversation with its Jewish sources, consistent with Boccaccini's efforts to transcend confessional and disciplinary divisions by situating the origins of Christianity firmly within Second Temple Judaism. Finally, the volume includes essays that look at Jewish-Christian relations in the centuries following the Second Temple period, a harvest of Boccaccini's labor to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in light of their shared yet contested heritage.

The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Maulana Jalalu-d-din Muhammad... The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Maulana Jalalu-d-din Muhammad Rumi, E.H. Whinfield
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Muhammad's Mission - Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam (Hardcover): Tilman Nagel Muhammad's Mission - Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam (Hardcover)
Tilman Nagel; Translated by Joseph Spoerl
R2,016 Discovery Miles 20 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Combining vast erudition with a refusal to bow before the political pressures of the day, Muhammad's Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam by Professor Tilman Nagel, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, is an introduction to three inseparable topics: the life of Muhammad (570-632 CE), the composition of the Koran, and the birth of Islam. While accessible to a general audience, it will also be of great interest to specialists, since it is the first English translation of Professor Nagel's attempt to summarize a lifetime of research on these topics. The Introduction, Chapters 1-2, and Appendix 1 provide essential historical background on the Arab tribal system and Muhammad's position within that system; the political situation in pre-Islamic Arabia; the history of Mecca; and pre-Islamic Arabian religions. Chapters 3-5 cover the beginnings of the revelations that Muhammad claimed to be receiving from Allah, paying special attention to the influence on Muhammad of the hanifs, a group of pre-Islamic pagan monotheists attested in the earliest Islamic sources. The hanifs claimed to trace their religion back to the putative original monotheism of Abraham, from which they claimed Jews and Christians had deviated by, among other things, abandoning animal sacrifice. Chapter 6 explains how Muhammad's religious message included a thinly-veiled claim to have the right to political power over Mecca, a claim that exacerbated tensions with his own clan and led eventually to his expulsion from Mecca, as recounted in Chapter 7. Chapters 8-10 describe the impact of the hijra on the evolution of Islam. Seeing himself as the true heir to Abraham and the prophets who followed him, Muhammad would demand allegiance from Jews and Christians, as recounted in Sura 2 and other Medinan suras. He would initiate a war against Mecca, not in self-defense, but in order to gain control over the Kaaba, the central hanif shrine and the new qibla or direction of prayer for the Muslims. The Muslim victory at the Battle of Badr in 624 would help to shape a new ideal of a militarized religiosity in which those who waged war under Muhammad's command would attain the rank of "true believers," while those converts who refused to make hijra and to fight for Muhammad were relegated to the lower rank of "mere Muslims," as Suras 8 and 49 make clear. Muhammad's war against Mecca alienated many of his Medinan followers, the ansar. The refusal of the Jews to convert to Islam, combined with the close connection of the Jews to the ansar, led Muhammad to make war on the Jews as well as the Meccans. The surrender of Mecca in 630 (Chapter 11) did not lead to the end of war, for the aggressiveness and military success of Muhammad's movement had made it attractive to a slew of new converts whose desire for booty had to be placated. Sura 9, promulgated near the end of Muhammad's life, served as a broad declaration of war against polytheists, Jews, and Christians. Chapter 12 describes the evolution of Islam late in Muhammad's life into a "religious warriors' movement" that sought to extend the rule of Islam over the entire inhabited world. Chapter 13 covers the final pilgrimage and death of Muhammad, while Chapters 14-20 describe the development of Islamic dogma surrounding the figure of Muhammad and its implications for politics in the Islamic world and interfaith relations with non-Muslims up till the present day. The book concludes with appendices in which Nagel summarizes the state of scholarship regarding the life of Muhammad (Appendix 2) and the tensions between competing varieties of Muslim recollection of Muhammad (Appendix 3). Muhammad's Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam is an erudite and authoritative guide to events of world-historical importance by a scholar who has spent a lifetime mastering the primary sources documenting the birth of Islam.

Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns - Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran... Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns - Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran (Hardcover)
Trine Bjornung Hasselbalch
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Essays on the GITA - -First Series- (Hardcover): Sri Aurobindo Essays on the GITA - -First Series- (Hardcover)
Sri Aurobindo
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions - An Introduction (Hardcover): Joan Price Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Joan Price
R5,615 Discovery Miles 56 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices. As we increasingly move toward a global world view, it is important that we understand the traditions of other members of the global community. "Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions" examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices. By taking this perspective, the author has produced an indispensable introductory textbook which provides students with an overview of the meaning and guidance that people find in their religion through these sacred wisdoms. Each chapter provides introductory explanations of key issues to provide undergraduate religion students with a unique sense of each faith, followed by illustrative scriptural passages. "Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions" is essential reading for those studying religion, honoring both the richness and universality of religious truths contained in the world's great scriptures.

The Dispeller of Disputes - Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (Hardcover, New): Jan Westerhoff The Dispeller of Disputes - Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (Hardcover, New)
Jan Westerhoff
R1,848 Discovery Miles 18 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in canonical literature and in recent scholarship; it has remained a central text in India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and has attracted the interest of greater and greater numbers of Western readers.
In The Dispeller of Disputes, Jan Westerhoff offers a clear new translation of the Vigrahavyavartani, taking current philological research and all available editions into account, and adding his own insightful philosophical commentary on the text. Crucial manuscript material has been discovered since the earlier translations were written, and Westerhoff draws on this material to produce a study reflecting the most up-to-date research on this text. In his nuanced and incisive commentary, he explains Nagarjuna's arguments, grounds them in historical and textual scholarship, and explicitly connects them to contemporary philosophical concerns.

Gita as She Is, in Krishna's Own Words, Book I (Hardcover, Colored ed.): Ratnakar Narale Gita as She Is, in Krishna's Own Words, Book I (Hardcover, Colored ed.)
Ratnakar Narale
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Woman's Identity and the Qur'an - A New Reading (Hardcover, New): Woman's Identity and the Qur'an - A New Reading (Hardcover, New)
R1,632 Discovery Miles 16 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality. Nimat Hafez Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from equal agency, from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the Qur'an and the entire range of early Qur'anic literature. Based on her pedagogical study of the sacred text, she argues that Islamic higher learning is a basic human right, that women have equal authority to participate in the interpretation of Islamic primary sources, and that women will realize their just role in society and their potential as human beings only when they are involved in the interpretation of the Qur'an. Consequently, a Muslim woman's relationship with God must not be dependent on her husband's or father's moral agency. Barazangi, an American Muslim of Syrian origin, is a scholar, an activist, and a concerned feminist. Her analysis of the complex interaction of gender, religion, and the power of knowledge for self-identity offers a paradigm shift in Islamic studies. She documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males have arrived at the prevailing exclusionary positions. She considers the issues of dependent morality and of modesty, especially in attire - a polarizing subject for many Muslim women - and she concludes that the majority of Muslim women today are not educated even for a complementary role in society. The book offers a curricular framework for self-learning that could prepare Muslim women for an active role in citizenship and policy making in a pluralistic society and may serve as a guideline for moving toward a ""gender revolution."" Her main thesis, if carried out in the lives of Muslims in America or elsewhere, would be so radical and liberating that her discourse is more powerful than those of many Muslim feminists. She writes, ""I intend this book to affirm the self-identity of the Muslim woman as an autonomous spiritual and intellectual human being.

Hidden Treasure - Doublet Catchwords in the Leningrad Codex (Hardcover): David Marcus Hidden Treasure - Doublet Catchwords in the Leningrad Codex (Hardcover)
David Marcus
R2,443 R1,922 Discovery Miles 19 220 Save R521 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work presents to the scholarly world the hitherto unpublished trove of over 500 catchwords that were attached to Masoretic doublet notes in the Leningrad Codex. All the doublets with their catchwords are listed both in the chronological order of their first appearance in the Bible and again on their second appearance. The nature of the catchwords, their purpose, and their relation to other Masoretic notes are described in detail, and suggestions are made how they can be of value to biblical scholars.

Egg Whites or Turnips? (Hardcover): Paul J N Lawrence Egg Whites or Turnips? (Hardcover)
Paul J N Lawrence
R1,075 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R171 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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