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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts

Introduction to Qur'anic Script (Paperback): Syed Barakat Ahmad Introduction to Qur'anic Script (Paperback)
Syed Barakat Ahmad
R1,855 Discovery Miles 18 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Masterly work ... Leads the reader patiently but directly not merely into Qur'anic writing but into the heart of that Holy Book itself ... By the time we have followed Dr Ahmad to the end of this splendid work we have learned something new and indeed something uplifting about one of the world's great books.' Prof. F. E. Peters, New York University.

The War Texts - 1 QM and Related Manuscripts (Hardcover): Jean Duhaime The War Texts - 1 QM and Related Manuscripts (Hardcover)
Jean Duhaime
R3,980 Discovery Miles 39 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The War Texts is the name given to a small group of Dead Sea Scrolls that depict the preparation for and the various phases of the eschatological battle between the 'Sons of Light' and the 'Sons of Darkness'. Jean Duhaime briefly surveys the history of these texts from their initial discovery to their official publication. He describes the different scrolls and gives details of their contents and their relationships to one another. Duhaime summarizes the various reasons supporting a dating of this composition to the Hellenistic or Roman period and provides an example of the use of the Bible in the War Texts. The contributors to the Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series take account of all relevant and recently published texts and provide extensive bibliographies. The books in the series are authoritatively written in accessible language and are ideal for students and non-specialist scholars. Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, 6

Powers of Protection - The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dharanisamgraha Collections (Hardcover): Gergely Hidas Powers of Protection - The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dharanisamgraha Collections (Hardcover)
Gergely Hidas
R3,038 Discovery Miles 30 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time: a unique palm-leaf bundle from the 12th-13th centuries and a paper manuscript of 1719 CE. The Dharanisamgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation. For modern scholarship, these diverse compendiums are valuable sources of incantations and related texts, many of which survive in Sanskrit only in such manuscripts.

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 2 - Work, Mind, Spirituality and Devotion, Jnana-Yoga, Practical Vedanta and... The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 2 - Work, Mind, Spirituality and Devotion, Jnana-Yoga, Practical Vedanta and other lectures, Reports in American Newspapers (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lost Book of the Nativity of John - A Study in Messianic Folklore and Christian Origins With a New Solution to the... The Lost Book of the Nativity of John - A Study in Messianic Folklore and Christian Origins With a New Solution to the Virgin-Birth Problem (Hardcover)
Hugh J. Schonfield
R642 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Revelation in the Qur'an - A Semantic Study of the Roots n-z-l and w-h-y (Hardcover): Simon P Loynes Revelation in the Qur'an - A Semantic Study of the Roots n-z-l and w-h-y (Hardcover)
Simon P Loynes
R2,729 Discovery Miles 27 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-h-y in order to elucidate the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an, and with reference to pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur'an's unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier religious traditions.

The Qur'an: A Guidebook (Hardcover): Roberto Tottoli The Qur'an: A Guidebook (Hardcover)
Roberto Tottoli
R3,114 Discovery Miles 31 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essay Reading and studying the Qur'an is an updated English version of the work appeared in Italian (Rome 2021) Leggere e studiare il Corano which deals with the contents of the Qur'an, the style and formal features of the text, the history and fixation of it and an poutline of the reception in Islamic literature. The aim of the work is to give a reader a description of what he/she can find in the Islamic holy text and the state of the critical debates on all the topics dealt with, focusing mainly on the growing scholarly literature which appeared in the last 30 years. As such, the work is unique in combining the aim to give comprehensive information on the topic and, at the same, time, reconstruct the critical debate in a balanced outline also emphasizing confessional approaches and the dynamics in the study of the Qur'an. There is nothing similar in contemporary scholarship and the book is a handbook for students and scholars of Islam but also for readers in religious studies who need to know how the main questions related to the Islamic text have been discussed in recent scholarship.

Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran - In Arabic and English (Hardcover, Revised): John Penrice, R.B. Serjeant Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran - In Arabic and English (Hardcover, Revised)
John Penrice, R.B. Serjeant
R4,350 Discovery Miles 43 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

John Penrice's Dictionary and Glossary of the Kor-an first published almost a century ago, has withstood the test of time, and has been an aid to generations of Kor-an students. According to Islamic doctrine the Kor-an is the literal word of God, and it would be introduced by the phrase, "Qiil Allah ta'iilii, God the Exalted said", and when a passage has been recited aloud it will be said, "$adaq Allah al-'Azim, God Almighty has truly spoken".

The Critical Qur'an - Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research (Hardcover): Robert... The Critical Qur'an - Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research (Hardcover)
Robert Spencer
R1,090 R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Save R200 (18%) Ships in 14 - 19 working days

A unique resource for understanding the Islamic Holy Book. As Islamic terrorism becomes a distressingly common feature of life in North America and Europe, it has become increasingly important for non-Muslims to be aware of the ideology that animates and motivates jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others--an ideology that's rooted in Islam's holy book, the Qur'an. English-speaking people, however, have found attempts to understand the Qur'an and Islam impeded by unclear, densely worded translations and explanatory notes written by Islamic apologists attempting to conceal, rather than reveal, how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of the Qur'an to justify violence and supremacism, and to make recruits of peaceful Muslims. The Critical Qur'an, in contrast, makes clear the passages that are used to incite violence. Historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer elucidates the Qur'anic text with extensive references to the principal tafsir, or commentaries, that mainstream Muslims use today to understand the Qur'an, showing how interpretations that sanction violence are unfortunately not outliers, but central in Islamic theology. The Critical Qur'an is the Islamic counterpart to numerous critical and skeptical editions of the Bible that have appeared over the last century and more. It is the one edition of Islam's book that doesn't shy away from elucidating why the holy book of Islam is so frequently quoted and referred to with reverence by people who commit and/or justify acts of violence. It is a basic resource for everyone who wishes to understand the persistent phenomenon of Islamic terrorism, and the peculiar provenance of this most provocative book.

Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy - 750-500 BCE (Hardcover): David Aberbach Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy - 750-500 BCE (Hardcover)
David Aberbach
R4,196 Discovery Miles 41 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ancient prophecy was not confined to Israel, yet the phenomenon of prophetic poetry as it developed there was unique. The impact of this poetry on civilization is incalculable, though its origins and motives largely remain mysterious. This book shows that this poetry is inseparable from the empires which determined the history of the ancient Near East and the fate of Israel and Judah from the late-8th century to the end of the 6th century BC - first Assyria, then Babylonia, and finally Persia. Each empire had its own characters and motives, and stimulated a distinct wave of prophecy, led in turn by Isaiah Ben Amos, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and the second Isaiah. The book is an historical interpretation and an anthology of prophetic poetry which uses recent research on imperialism and creativity to produce a radically new interpretation of the biblical prophets. More than three dozen outstanding poems and fragments in new translation from the Hebrew Bible are arranged in a running narrative, from the late-8th century BC until the late-6th century BC.

Christianity and Islam - The Bible and the Koran (Hardcover): W. R. W. Stephens, Clinton Bennett Christianity and Islam - The Bible and the Koran (Hardcover)
W. R. W. Stephens, Clinton Bennett
R3,134 Discovery Miles 31 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on lectures delivered in Chichester Cathedral, this book mirrors typical nineteenth century English attitudes toward the non-European space. This needed Christianity and European political oversight, or its people would remain backward and spiritually lost. The book shows how someone whose inclinations were liberal could look at Islam and dislike what he saw. On the other hand, the book also shows that a non-specialist scholar in the second half of the nineteenth century could write seriously if not impartially about Islam using material available in European languages. This suggests that Islam was a subject of increasing interest in Victorian England.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Rewriting Samuel and Kings - Texts and Commentary (Hardcover, Digital original): Ariel Feldman The Dead Sea Scrolls Rewriting Samuel and Kings - Texts and Commentary (Hardcover, Digital original)
Ariel Feldman
R2,918 Discovery Miles 29 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books. This volume brings all these texts together for the first time under one cover. Improved editions of the fragments, up-to-date commentary, and detailed discussions of the exegetical traditions embedded in these scrolls will be of interest to both scholars and students of Second Temple Jewish literature.

Roots of the Bible - An Ancient View For a New Vision (The Key to Creation in Jewish Tradition) (Hardcover): Friedrich Weinreb Roots of the Bible - An Ancient View For a New Vision (The Key to Creation in Jewish Tradition) (Hardcover)
Friedrich Weinreb
R1,254 R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Save R96 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Quoting the Quran - A reference Handbook for Authors and Scholars (Hardcover): Saad D. Abulhab Quoting the Quran - A reference Handbook for Authors and Scholars (Hardcover)
Saad D. Abulhab
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Tractates Kilaim and Seviit (Hardcover): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractates Kilaim and Seviit (Hardcover)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R7,823 Discovery Miles 78 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First Order: Zeraim / Tractates Kilaim and eviit ist der dritte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein grundlegendes Werk der Judischen Patristik. Der Band prasentiert grundlegende judische Texte aus dem Bereich der Landwirtschaft: verbotene Mischungen von Saaten, Tieren und Geweben (Kilaim) sowie das Verbot landwirtschaftlicher Tatigkeit im Sabbatjahr, in dem auch alle Schulden zu erlassen sind ( eviit). Dieser Teil des Jerusalemer Talmuds hat so gut wie keine Entsprechung im Babylonischen Talmud. Ohne seine Kenntnis bleiben die diesbezuglichen Regeln der judischen Tradition unverstandlich."

Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 2) - Karna (Hardcover): Adam Bowles Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 2) - Karna (Hardcover)
Adam Bowles
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance."
--Willis G. Regier, "The Chronicle Review"

"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience."
--"The Times Higher Education Supplement"

"The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes."
--"New Criterion"

"Published in the geek-chic format."
--"BookForum"

"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs."
--"Tricycle"

aNow an ambitious new publishing project, the Clay Sanskrit Library brings together leading Sanskrit translators and scholars of Indology from around the world to celebrate in translating the beauty and range of classical Sanskrit literature. . . . Published as smart green hardbacks that are small enough to fit into a jeans pocket, the volumes are meant to satisfy both the scholar and the lay reader. Each volume has a transliteration of the original Sanskrit texton the left-hand page and an English translation on the right, as also a helpful introduction and notes. Alongside definitive translations of the great Indian epics -- 30 or so volumes will be devoted to the Maha-bharat itself -- Clay Sanskrit Library makes available to the English-speaking reader many other delights: The earthy verse of Bhartri-hari, the pungent satire of Jayanta Bhatta and the roving narratives of Dandin, among others. All these writers belong properly not just to Indian literature, but to world literature.a
--"LiveMint"

aThe Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public.a
--"Namarupa"

In India's great epic the Maha-bharata, the eighth book, aKarna, a recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Kaurava army. This second volume resumes on the war's seventeenth and penultimate day. This will be a momentous day for the Bharata clans and especially for a number of their most distinguished heroes, with some of the epic's most telegraphed events reaching their climax. Not only will the epic's most anticipated duel between its greatest champions Arjuna and Karna be played out to its cruel and tragic end, but one of the more gruesome episodes in the epic will also take place with Duhshasana meeting the fate that has long waited him since his brazen maltreatment of Draupadi in the assembly hall.

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation

For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org

The Holy Koran of the Moorish Holy Temple of Science - Circle 7 (Hardcover): Timothy Noble Drew Ali The Holy Koran of the Moorish Holy Temple of Science - Circle 7 (Hardcover)
Timothy Noble Drew Ali; Timothy Noble Drew Ali
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Atharvaveda Paippalada: Kanda Fifteen - Text, translation, commentary (English, Sanskrit, Hardcover): Duccio Lelli Atharvaveda Paippalada: Kanda Fifteen - Text, translation, commentary (English, Sanskrit, Hardcover)
Duccio Lelli
R3,690 Discovery Miles 36 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Since its discovery and the initial efforts toward its critical edition, the Paippaladasamhita of the Atharvaveda (PS) has attracted the attention of Vedic scholars and Indologists for several reasons. It constitutes a precious source for the study of the development of the earliest language. The text contains important information about various rites and magical practices, and hints about the oldest Indo-Iranian and Indo-European myths. All of this makes the PS a text of inestimable value for the study of Indian language and culture.

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way - Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Hardcover): Nagarjuna The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way - Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Hardcover)
Nagarjuna; Translated by Jay L. Garfield
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Garfield translates Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika and provides a philosophical commentary. Mulamadhyamakakarika is the foundational text for all Mahayana Buddhism and is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy.

Religion and Its Monsters (Paperback, 2nd edition): Timothy Beal Religion and Its Monsters (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Timothy Beal
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror, and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters, and monsters have their religion. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy Beal explores how religion, horror, and the monstrous are deeply intertwined. This new edition has been thoughtfully updated, reflecting on developments in the field over the past two decades and highlighting its contributions to emerging conversations. It also features a new chapter, "Gods, Monsters, and Machines," which engages cultural fascinations and anxieties about technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they relate to religion and the monstrous at the dawn of the Anthropocene. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students and scholars of religion and popular culture, as well as for any readers with an interest in horror theory or monster theory.

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1 - Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma-Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Lectures... The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1 - Addresses at The Parliament of Religions, Karma-Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Lectures and Discourses (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Ekaterina E. Kozlova Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
R3,156 Discovery Miles 31 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Setting out from the observation made in the social sciences that maternal grief can at times be a motor of societal change, Ekaterina E. Kozlova demonstrates that a similar mechanism operates also in the biblical world. Kozlova argues that maternal grief is treated as a model or archetype of grief in biblical and Ancient Near Eastern literature. The work considers three narratives and one poem that illustrate the transformative power of maternal grief in the biblical presentation: Gen 21, Hagar and Ishmael in the desert; 2 Sam 21: 1-14, Rizpah versus King David; 2 Sam 14, the speech of the Tekoite woman; Jer 31: 15-22, Rachel weeping for her children. Although only one of the texts literally refers to a bereaved mother (2 Sam 21 on Rizpah), all four passages draw on the motif of maternal grief, and all four stage some form of societal transformation.

Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon (Hardcover): Frank Matheus Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon (Hardcover)
Frank Matheus
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Book of Enoch (Paperback): Enoch The Book of Enoch (Paperback)
Enoch
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Arabic Through the Qur'an (Paperback, Revised ed.): Alan Jones Arabic Through the Qur'an (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Alan Jones
R512 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Whether used as a means of self-instruction or as part of higher learning coursework, this language primer is ideally suited for those wishing to learn classical Arabic and for Muslims who wish to learn Arabic exclusively for use in their religious and spiritual practice. Designed to enhance the understanding of the Qur'an and its vocabulary that has infiltrated the whole of Arabic and Islamic literature, this workbook provides 40 easy-to-follow lessons for learning Qur'anic rather than modern Arabic. Beginning with a section on the Arabic alphabet, the text moves on to individual lessons that address one or more grammatical topics, ranging from the basics of nouns, adjectives, and prepositions to the more complex concepts of the imperative, the passive, and conditional sentence, introducing new vocabulary in the process. Accompanying translation exercises, a glossary of technical terms, and an index supplement the main text.

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