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A comprehensive overview of Hajj, one of the central pillars of
Islam. Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage consists of twenty-seven
essays addressing objects in the remarkable collection of Nasser
David Khalili. The collection features more than five thousand
objects relating to the arts of pilgrimage, from the eighth century
to today, and includes Qur'ans, illustrated manuscripts, rare
books, scientific instruments, textiles, coins, paintings, prints,
and photo-postcards, as well as archival material, unique
historical documents, and examples of the work of some of the
earliest Muslim photographers of Hajj. Together the essays
collected in Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage provide a
comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious,
spiritual, cultural, and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the Holy
Sanctuaries of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj itself.
Each essay is written by a prominent specialist in the field and
beautifully illustrated with full-color images of objects from the
collection, some of which have never been seen in print before.
Taking readers from the early history of Islam to the fascinating
story of the Western view of Muslim pilgrimage, these essays will
transform our perception of Hajj.
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Literature and Evil (Paperback)
Georges Bataille; Translated by Alastair Hamilton
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'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this
extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by
acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can
literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles
of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bronte's Wuthering
Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade,
Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism,
childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and
powerful argument.
Vols. 8-27 have various assistant and associate editors.
Editors of v. 3-5: J. Goebel, Jr. and J.H. Smith.
Editors of v. 3-5: J. Goebel, Jr. and J.H. Smith.
Vols. 8-27 have various assistant and associate editors.
Editors of v. 3-5: J. Goebel, Jr. and J.H. Smith.
Editors of v. 3-5: J. Goebel, Jr. and J.H. Smith.
In seventeenth-century Europe, the Copts, or the Egyptian members
of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key
to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was
thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their
Church to retain traces of early Christian practices, as well as
early Egyptian customs. This book, the first full-length study of
the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to
force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome
and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs,
undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of
the study of the Coptic language in the West, and of the uses to
which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians
and Egyptologists.
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