Expectation of the Millennium: Shi’Ism in History book pdf download

Department : History
Size of file : 2.66MB
Number of Pages : 504
Section : Islamic history
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Auther : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Language : English
book quality : Good

Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr

About the Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on (April 7, 1933 AD) in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran. He is a contemporary Islamic philosopher who works as a professor in the Department of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He is a prominent Iranian philosopher, and has many books and articles. [7] Seyyed Hossein Nasr is famous in the field of comparative religion, Sufism, philosophy of science and metaphysics. His philosophy includes a strong criticism and rejection of modernity and its negative impact on the human spirit.

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This is an anthology on the history, politics, and social aspects of Shi’ism including translations of original sources. It examines the historical development of Shi’ism, Shi’i political thought, the status of Shi’i minority communities in the Muslim world, and the life and works of prominent social and political thinkers. The book assesses the extent of the politicization process in Shi’ism in recent years and addresses that important question of the Shi’i attitude towards authority.

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History Of Islam In Africa book pdf download

Auther : Nehemia Levtzion
Size of file : 11.3MB
Language : English
Department : History
Section : Islamic history
Number of Pages : 605
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent

Author: Nehemia Levtzion

About the Author: Nehemia Levtzion was an Israeli scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and the President of the Open University of Israel from 1987 to 1992 and the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute from 1994 to 1997. Levtzion was a scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and especially Islam in Africa. He taught at (starting in 1965) and was Professor of History and Asian and African Studies and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (1978-1981) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Director of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East (1982-1987), the President of the Open University of Israel (1987-1992), the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (1994-1997), and the Chairman of the Council for Higher Education in Israel’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (1997-2003). The Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies was established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004.

History Of Islam In Africa book pdf download By Nehemia Levtzion

The history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History of Islam in Africa presents a detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale. Bringing together two dozen leading scholars, this comprehensive work treats the historical development of the religion in each major region and examines its effects. Without assuming prior knowledge of the subject on the part of its readers, The History of Islam in Africa is broken down into discrete areas, each devoted to a particular place or theme and each written by experts in that particular arena. The introductory chapters examine the principal “gateways” from abroad through which Islam traditionally has influenced Africans. The following two parts present overviews of Islamic history in West Africa and the Sudanic zone, and in subequatorial Africa. In the final section, the authors discuss important themes that have had an impact on Muslim communities in Africa. Designed as both a reference and a text, The History of Islam in Africa will be an essential tool for libraries, scholars, and students of this growing field.

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Muslims And Chiefs In West Africa; A Study Of Islam In The Middle Volta Basin The Pre Colonial Period book pdf download

Auther : Nehemia Levtzion
Number of Pages : 254
Department : History
Language : English
Size of file : 35.3MB
Section : Islamic history
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent

Author: Nehemia Levtzion

About the Author: Nehemia Levtzion was an Israeli scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and the President of the Open University of Israel from 1987 to 1992 and the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute from 1994 to 1997. Levtzion was a scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and especially Islam in Africa. He taught at (starting in 1965) and was Professor of History and Asian and African Studies and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (1978-1981) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Director of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East (1982-1987), the President of the Open University of Israel (1987-1992), the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (1994-1997), and the Chairman of the Council for Higher Education in Israel’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (1997-2003). The Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies was established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004.

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he Geographical Setting With in the great bend of the Niger the Volta river system drains an extensive area, covering most of the republics of Upper Volta and Ghana, as well as parts of Togo and the Ivory Coast. The vegetation of the Volta Basin changes gradually, from north to south, with the increase of rainfall and the lengthening of the wet season. In the upper reaches of the Volta Basin the Sahel gives way to the Sudan savannah, and a predominantly nomad population is replaced by agricultural communities. Cereal crops, mainly millet, form the staple food, and as the area is relatively free of the tsetse fly, cattle breeding is still important. The Upper Volta Basin, dominated by the two Mossi states of Yatenga and Wagadugu, is densely popu lated, reaching about 130 inhabitants per square mile.1 The density of this area, compared with that of the drier country to the north, goes some way to explain the important historical fact that the Mossi states blocked the expansion of the northern Sudanese empire.

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The Expansion of the Early Islamic State book pdf download

Size of file : 16.7MB
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent
Auther : Fred Donner
Language : English
Department : History
Section : Islamic history
Number of Pages : 386

Author: Fred Donner

About the Author: Fred Donner is Professor of Near Eastern History in the Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is also currently Director of the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His scholarly work focuses on early Islam, Islamic historiography, and medieval Islamic social history. He received his B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees from Princeton University, and also studied in Lebanon and at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany.

The Expansion of the Early Islamic State book pdf download By Fred Donner

This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the reasons for its success, the nature of the movement itself, the impact the expansion had on the countries affected by it, and the complex questions surrounding the sources on which historians have constructed their views of the expansion, and the reliability (or lack of it) of those sources. No articles devoted to the actual conquest of a given locality are included-hundreds exist-but a fairly extensive bibliography lists many of the more important contributions in this genre. The editor’s introduction addresses the phenomenon of the expansion and how scholars have approached and grappled with it.

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The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures book pdf download

Size of file : 28.2MB
Language : English
Auther : Fred Donner
Number of Pages : 469
Section : Islamic history
book quality : Excellent
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Department : History

Author: Fred Donner

About the Author: Fred Donner is Professor of Near Eastern History in the Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is also currently Director of the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His scholarly work focuses on early Islam, Islamic historiography, and medieval Islamic social history. He received his B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees from Princeton University, and also studied in Lebanon and at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany.

The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures book pdf download By Fred Donner

This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the ‘rightly-guided’ and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appeared in languages other than English and are translated here) trace the crystallization of key institutions of the growing empire and treat such fundamental issues as taxation, military institutions, administrative organization and practices, the barid or official courier and intelligence service, succession, the ruling elites and their income, and questions of legitimation. The volume includes an introduction by the editor that offers an overview of the processes involved and helps place each article in its proper context. It also offers an extensive bibliography of further works relevant to the theme of the volume.

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Historic Cities of the Islamic World book pdf download

Auther : Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Size of file : 7.14MB
Department : History
Section : Islamic history
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Language : English
Number of Pages : 631
book quality : Excellent

Author: Clifford Edmund Bosworth

About the Author: Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA is an English historian and orientalist, specializing in Arabic and Iranian studies. He received his B.A. degree from Oxford University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Edinburgh University. He held permanent posts at St. Andrews University, Manchester University, and the Center for the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of 100s articles in academic journals and composite volumes. His other contributions include nearly 200 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and some 100 articles in the Encyclopædia Iranica, as well as articles for Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana. He’s currently a visiting professor at the University of Exeter, where he has held the post since 2004. His book The Islamic dynasties has been translated to Arabic and Persian. He is the chief editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam and a consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica.

Historic Cities of the Islamic World book pdf download By Clifford Edmund Bosworth

This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind’s greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.

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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies book pdf download

Number of Pages : 176
book quality : Excellent
Auther : Carl Gustav Jung
Size of file : 3.40MB
Department : History
Section : Islamic history
Date of Coming : 2022-08-31
Language : English

Author: Carl Gustav Jung

About the Author: Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung’s radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is “by nature religious” and to explore it in depth. His many major works include “Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice,” “Man and His Symbols,” “Memories, Dreams, Reflections,” “The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung,” and “The Red Book.”

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While Jung is known mainly for his theories on the nature of the unconscious mind, he did have an interest in the paranormal. In this essay, Jung applies his analytical skills to the UFO phenomenon. Rather than assuming that the modern prevalence of UFO sightings are due to extraterrestrial craft, Jung reserves judgment on their origin & connects UFOs with archetypal imagery, concluding that they have become a “living myth.” This essay is intriguing in its methodology & implications as to the nature of UFOs & their relation to the human psyche.

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الحضارة الإسلامية book pdf download

Department : History
book quality : Excellent
Size of file : 2.23MB
Auther : Ahmed Zaki
Date of Coming : 2022-09-14
Number of Pages : 92
Language : Arabic
Section : Islamic history

Author: Ahmed Zaki

About the Author: Ahmed Zaki: An Egyptian Arab thinker, considered one of the pillars of the modern Arab renaissance, the first to introduce punctuation marks in modern Arabic writing, and the owner of a personal library of about eighteen thousand volumes, the first to give Andalusia the famous name “Paradise Lost”, and the first to The term “investigation” was used on the covers of Arabic books, and he is one of the pioneers who worked on collecting manuscripts, photographing and verifying them, and was called the “Sheikh of Arabism.” “Ahmed Zaki Pasha Ibrahim” was born in 1867 AD, and his father died when he was young, so he was sponsored by his uncle, who was president of the National Court of First Instance. Ahmed Zaki was educated in Cairo, and graduated from the School of Administration (Faculty of Law) in 1887 AD. Zaki was fully proficient in French in addition to English, Italian and Latin. He also worked as a translator in the Cabinet and rose in positions until he became Secretary of the Council in 1911 AD, until he was referred to retire. Ahmed Zaki Pasha was a contemporary of the great figures of the Arab Renaissance, such as Rifa’a Al-Tahtawi, Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani, and Muhammad Abdo. He traveled to England, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as to the Levant, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Yemen, and Cyprus. These travels left a great impact on his scientific and literary life. Where it allowed him to visit dozens of libraries and see the literature of the flags of the East and West. The man devoted his intellectual efforts to investigation, translation and authorship. He wrote in history, travel literature, literature and language, and made many manuscripts. He gave us more than thirty authored books, and translated many books, in addition to hundreds of articles he wrote in a group of Arab newspapers and magazines – at that time – such as Al-Ahram, Al-Muqattam, Al-Balagh, Al-Moayad, Al-Hilal, Al-Miqtaf, Al-Ma`rifa, Al-Shura, and the Journal of the Scientific Council (Damascus). ). Zaki was distinguished by his criticism of traditional methods of writing, as he demanded a clear and familiar language that meets the intellectual and civilized needs of the nation. He died in 1934 of a severe cold.

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يُعَد هذا الكتاب من الكتب المهمة التي تحدَّثَت عن حضارة الإسلام وإسهاماتها في تاريخ الإنسانية، باعتبارها واحدةً من الحضارات الأعظم شأنًا على مدار التاريخ؛ حيث بدأت في الصعود منذ ظهور الإسلام وحتى انتهاء حُكم الدولة العثمانية. ويتضمن الكتاب عددًا من المحاضرات التي ألقاها «أحمد زكي»، والتي أوجز فيها بأسلوبٍ سَلِس وواضح أحوالَ الأمة العربية قبل الإسلام وبعده، وكيف اجتمعت كلمة العرب وأصبحوا أُمة واحدة متماسكة بفضل تعاليم الإسلام السَّمْحة، والدعوة إلى التفكُّر وإعمال العقل، والتأكيد على مكارم الأخلاق التي كانت العامل الأكبر في انتشار الإسلام في مشارق الأرض ومغاربها. كما تناولت المحاضرات أيضًا تاريخَ الكتابة والحفظ والتدوين باعتبارها أهم أدوات التقدُّم والرُّقي في الحضارات الإنسانية، وأجاب المؤلف كذلك عن بعض التساؤلات المهمة التي أُثيرت حول طبيعة الفتوحات الإسلامية.

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النسبية سير واي book pdf download

Language : Arabic
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Number of Pages : 100
Department : Natural Science
Auther :
Section : modern physics
Size of file : 1.73MB
book quality : Good

Author: Raymond A. Serway

About the Author: Raymond A. Serway is an American physicist, professor, and writer. He has been devoted to research and teaching primarily in the physics field of the subject, and is well known for his numerous publications and also serves as co-author of several introductory physics textbooks.

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النسبية أو النظرية النسبية ‏، من أشهر نظريات الفيزياء الحديثة، التي طورت من قبل ألبرت أينشتاين في بداية القرن العشرين. وتوجد نظريتان للنسبية، الأولى هي النسبية الخاصة والثانية هي النسبية العامة، وكلاهما تعتمدان على مبدأ النسبية الذي وضعه غاليليو غاليلي في عام 1636.مصطلح “theory of relativity” أو “نظرية النسبية” أخذ من تعبير “relative theory”‏ واستعمل من قبل ماكس بلانك عام 1906، بلانك الذي أكد على أن النظرية استخدمت مبدأ النسبية. في قسم النقاش على نفس الورقة ألفريد بوخرر استعمل للمرة الأولى تعبير theory of relativity

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فيزياء العقل البشري والعالم من منظورين book pdf download

Section : modern physics
Language : Arabic
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Number of Pages : 50
Size of file : 5.80MB
Department : Natural Science
book quality : Good
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Author: Stephen Hawking

About the Author: Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942 and died in 2018, is one of the most prominent theoretical physicists and cosmologists in the world, he studied at Oxford University and obtained a first honors degree in physics, completed his studies at Cambridge University to obtain a doctorate in science The universe, has theoretical research in cosmology and research in the relationship between black holes and thermodynamics, as well as research and studies in chronology.

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في هذا السفر النفيس، نُوقشت آراء روجر بنروز المثيرة للجدل والمتعلقة بفيزياء الكون واسعة النطاق وعالم فيزياء الكم ضيق النطاق، إلى جانب فيزياء العقل البشري، مناقشةً شاملة. ويُعد هذا الكتاب — في الواقع — ملخصًا رائعًا لأفكار بنروز حول هذه الموضوعات الخاصة بالفيزياء التي يشعر أنها مشكلات كبرى لم يُتوصل بعد إلى حلول لها. والكتاب أيضًا يمكن اعتباره مقدمة نموذجية إلى المفاهيم الجديدة جذريًّا التي يعتقد أنها ستؤتي ثمارها مستقبلًا فيما يتعلق بفهم وظائف المخ وطبيعة العقل البشري. بالإضافة إلى ما سبق، يشتمل الكتاب على «شرح وافٍ قدمه عالِم من الطراز الأول وقد حذا فيه حذو العلماء أمثاله؛ حيث التوصل إلى الاستنتاجات استنادًا إلى الحدس واقتراحها على الآخرين للتصديق عليها أو تفنيدها أو تنقيحها.»

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