The sense of unity : the Sufi tradition in Persian architecture 9780226025599, 0226025594, 9780226025605, 0226025608

with a foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

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The sense of unity : the Sufi tradition in Persian architecture
9780226025599, 0226025594, 9780226025605, 0226025608

Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Be

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Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by

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One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on wheth

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Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first wit

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Examines ʿAttar's didactic sufi poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, recipient-centred perspective Provi

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Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of rom

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At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland’s 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct stat

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"Berthold Lubetkin: Architecture and the tradition of progress" was originally published in 1992 by RIBA Publi

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No period of history was more formative for the development of Christianity than the patristic age, when church leaders,

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This text analyzes the USSR's interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf. The book places such interest within t

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