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An Interpretation of the Qur'an: English Translation of the Meanings : a Bilingual Edition

An Interpretation of the Qur'an: English Translation...

Author: Majid Fakhry (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
ISBN: 9780814727232
Format: Hardback
$184.80

To followers of Islam, the Qur'an is the literal word of God, revealed through Muhammad, the last of the line of...  Read More >>

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān: Volume One (A-D)

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān: Volume One (A-D)

Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe
ISBN: 9789004114654
Format: Hardback
$976.80

Features alphabetical entries with the publication of volume Five.  Read More >>

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān: Volume Two (E-I)

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān: Volume Two (E-I)

Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe ,  Professor Claude Gilliot
ISBN: 9789004120358
Format: Hardback
$976.80

Features alphabetical entries with the publication of volume Five.  Read More >>

Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Jonathan G. Campbell (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780631229933
Format: Paperback
$78.95

* Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader. * Explains how revolutionary the discovery of...  Read More >>

Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Jonathan G. Campbell (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780631229926
Format: Hardback
$230.95

Between 1947 and 1956, ancient Jewish manuscripts were found in caves near Khirbet Qumran on the edge of the Dead...  Read More >>

Against Cheap Grace in a World Come of Age: An Intellectual Biography of Clayton Powell, 1865-1953

Against Cheap Grace in a World Come of Age: An Intellectual...

Author: Ralph Garlin Clingan ,  Bruce H. Tabb
ISBN: 9780820457703
Format: Paperback
$121.57

Ralph Garlin Clingan explores Powell's role as a radical, progressive prophet with a well thought out program of...  Read More >>

The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra: With Buddhaguhya's Commentary

The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra: With Buddhaguhya's...

Author: Stephen Hodge ,  Stephen Hodge
ISBN: 9780700711833
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A step towards providing practising Buddhists and Buddhist scholars access to this material in an English translation....  Read More >>

Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam

Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam...

Author: Ram Swarup
ISBN: 9781591020172
Format: Paperback
$52.99

To Muslims the Hadith literature represents the Koran in action, stories of 'revelation made concrete in the life...  Read More >>

Kundalini Tantra

Kundalini Tantra

Author: Swami Satyananda Saraswati
ISBN: 9788185787152
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A comprehensive guide to Kundalini, Chakras, and Kriya Yoga in Tantra. Covers theory, practices, and scientific...  Read More >>

Kanvasatapathabrahmanam

Kanvasatapathabrahmanam

Author: C. R. Swaminathan
ISBN: 9788120815490
Format: Hardback
$54.31

This is a complete critical edition of a work of the Kanva school of the Sukla Yajurveda along with its English...  Read More >>

'Arā'is Al-Majālis Fī Qisas Al-Anbiyā' or ""Lives of the Prophets"": as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Tha'labī

'Arā'is Al-Majālis Fī Qisas Al-Anbiyā' or ""Lives of...

Author: William M. Brinner
ISBN: 9789004125896
Format: Leather / fine binding
$675.84

This work consists of stories both from Muslim sacred history and collections of tales from a variety of sources...  Read More >>

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Sutra

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita...

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN: 9781888375275
Format: Audio
$50.16

The Heart of the Prajaparamita Sutra is regarded as the essence of Buddhist teaching. It is recited daily in Mahayana...  Read More >>

Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis

Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis

Author: Brannon M. Wheeler
ISBN: 9780700716036
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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God, Gender and the Bible

God, Gender and the Bible

Author: Deborah Sawyer ,  David Gunn
ISBN: 9780415174848
Format: Paperback
$83.99

God, Gender and the Bible demonstrates that both maleness and femaleness are constructed in the light of divine...  Read More >>

God, Gender and the Bible

God, Gender and the Bible

Author: Deborah Sawyer ,  David Gunn
ISBN: 9780415174831
Format: Hardback
$305.00

God, Gender and the Bible demonstrates that both maleness and femaleness are constructed in the light of divine...  Read More >>

The Bible Quran and Science: Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of modern Knowledge

The Bible Quran and Science: Holy Scriptures Examined...

Author: Maurice Bucaille ,  Alastair D. Pannell
ISBN: 9788172311612
Format: Paperback
$18.09

The continuity of the revelation emanating from the same God, with modes of expression that differ in the course...  Read More >>

Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday Living

Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday...

Author: Michael Katz ,  Gershon Schwartz
ISBN: 9780827607309
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Explores the body of Jewish literature called Midrash - creative interpretations of the Bible that are designed...  Read More >>

The Context of Scripture, Volume 1 Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World

The Context of Scripture, Volume 1 Canonical Compositions...

Author: William W. Hallo ,  Younger
ISBN: 9789004106185
Format: Hardback
$559.68

Provides access to a representative collection of ancient Near Eastern texts that have some bearing on the interpretation...  Read More >>

Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot: Edition, Translation, and Commentary

Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot: Edition, Translation,...

Author: Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
ISBN: 9783110174366
Format: Hardback
$480.48

This volume presents the fundamental Jewish texts on obligatory gift to priests and tithes to Levites and the poor....  Read More >>

Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an

Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an

Author: Toshihiko Izutsu ,  Toshihiko Izutsu
ISBN: 9780773524262
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.  Read More >>

Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an

Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an

Author: Toshihiko Izutsu ,  Toshihiko Izutsu
ISBN: 9780773524279
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.  Read More >>

Selections from the Mahabharata: Re-affirming Gita's Call for the Good of All

Selections from the Mahabharata: Re-affirming Gita's...

Author: Satya P. Agarwall
ISBN: 9788120818743
Format: Hardback
$41.37

This book presents the social message of the Mahabharat in the form of a ten-print call for the good of all.  Read More >>

Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild: A Socio-Rhetorical Approach

Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic...

Author: Jack N. Lightstone ,  Vernon K. Robbins
ISBN: 9780889203754
Format: Paperback
$93.50

In order to shed light on the early social formation of the rabbinic guild of masters, Lightstone brings the theoretical...  Read More >>

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