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Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world
into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of
these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites.
Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of
the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East
is a ground-breaking work. These sects whose 'extremism' is
essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except
for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists.
Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world
into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of
these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites.
Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of
the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East
is a ground-breaking work. These sects whose 'extremism' is
essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except
for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists.
This book covers the history of the Syrian church of India from its
founding by the apostle Thomas in 52 A.D., until the first half of
the 20th century. During which, the author explains the various
obstacles the Indian Church faced in therms of theology and
colonialism. The several delegations of the Apostolic See of
Antioch to India from the 17th to the 20th centuries form an
indispensable account of the vicissitudes of a struggling native
Indian Church trying to preserve its Antiochene identity.
The History of the Za'faran Monastery is for the first time offered
in English translation to the readers. It was written in 1917 by
Patriarch Ignatius Aphram Barsoum (d. 1957) when he was still a
monk at the monastery. The book details the history of the
monastery from its inception until modern times. It deals with with
everything, from construction to its significance as a center of
Syriac learning and learned men. Without this small book, the first
of its kind, a great and significant page of the history of the
Syrian Church of Antioch would have been lamentably lost.
Barsoum's wrote many historical essays which he published in now
hard-to-find journals, mainly al-Hikmah and al-Majalla
al-Batriyarkiyya al-Suryaniyya (Jerusalem). This collection of
articles, published in the original Arabic with an English
translation by Matti Moosa, forms the core of Barsoum's historical
writings.
Until he won the Nobel Prize for the literature in 1988, little was
known in the West about the life and literary accomplishments of
Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian and the first Arab to receive the
award. His writing, here examined by Matti Moosa in its original
Arabic, thereafter became widely available and widely scrutinized.
Moosa introduces Mahfouz and his principal works to a Western
audience by examining his treatment of social, political, and
religious themes against the background of twentieth-century Egypt.
Often compared to Dickens and Balzac, Mahfouz portrays the
condition of the poor and oppressed in a realistic and classically
Arabic style. Concentrating on the early novels, Moosa discusses
such themes as conflict between generations, the changing role of
women, and the humiliating inefficiency of bureaucracy. He
describes how Mahfouz, a moderate Muslim, explains Islamic
tradition and its place in a modern technological world. Moosa
begins with Mahfouz's formative years as an essayist and ends with
his Awlad Haratina (translated as Children of Gebelawi), which was
considered blasphemous by Islamic fundamentalists when it was
serialized in Cairo's daily newspaper in 1959. (It has never been
published in book form in Egypt.) He devotes nearly half of the
book to Mahfouz's Thulathiyya (Trilogy, completed in 1952), which
Mahfouz considers his best work. These novels in particular, Moosa
says, accurately convey Mahfouz's representation of both the
religious ideas of the zealous Muslim Brotherhood and the tolerant
ideas of many modern Muslims. At the same time they offer abundant
insight into the social and religious attitudes of Egyptians from
all walks of life and of Arab andIslamic culture and institutions.
This is an account of the family life of Prophet Muhammad,
concerning the noble ladies who lived in his house. The author
tries to visualize the life of each of the women, their
relationships with the Prophet, and their roles as wives and women.
The work is based on the most authentic Islamic sources such as
Tabari, Waqidi, Ibn Ishaq, and Ibn Hisham. The author concentrates
on the life of Muhammad among his wives, and on his treatment and
discipline of them. This text gives an insight into the life of
women in the beginning of the Islamic Era.
The exposition of the Liturgy of St. James, which is basically the
Celebration of the Holy Eucahrist, is most significant for the
understanding of the mystery of the God in offering His only Son a
vicarious sacrifice for the redemption of man. The purpose of the
liturgy is to show the believer the right path and leads him by
faith to salvation and eternal life through the Body and Blood of
Jesus Christ represented in the form of Bread and Wine. To make it
understandable, Rev. Saka explains not only the meaning of terms
connected with the liturgy but of all the components of the
vessels, the vesting, the censoring, the candles and the
propitiatory prayers associated with them. This exposition should
benefit both church and liturgical scholars and lay people
interested in the profound spiritual meaning of their faith.
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