Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa'and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its saints, the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Waf…

The Mosque is an extended meditation on a dimension of Islam unfamiliar to most Western readers. The mosque, Rusmir Mahmut ?cehaji ?c argues, is not an analogue of the Christian church, not least because in Islam there is no priesthood and no institutionalized hierarchy. Rather, every Muslim is his or her own priest, andmost religious obligations are performed in the home. The function of the m…

Tahun Terbit

2004

ISBN/ISSN

979-9481-54-6

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 202 p. ; 24 cm

No. Panggil

297.2 MUH d

This volume is a review of up-to-date methods used in human growth research. Aimed at junior and senior researchers in human biology, anthropology, epidemiology and pediatrics involved in the analysis of normal and pathological growth and development data, it focuses on concepts, possibilities, limitations and applications.

In this probing examination of the meaning and function of culture in contemporary society, Lawrence Cahoone argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. While recent political and philosophical movements have recognized that cognition, the self, and politics are embedded in culture, most fail to appreciate the deep changes in rationalism and liberal theory this implies…

Alliances have come of age. In the last ten years, they have gone from being a peripheral tool of management, used mostly to enter restricted overseas markets, to a centerpiece of corporate strategy and competitive advantage. Today, many companies have portfolios of twenty or more alliances?and some have more than a hundred. Because of this, it is now common to see alliances account for 20?50 p…

The, idea behind Songs in Their Heads was percolating in my mind for a long while before I began to give it shape here on paper, spurred and stirred by my interactions with colleagues, students, and of course, children. In my ongoing observations of and discussions with education majors soon to be teachers, I had become uneasily aware of the times when we follow the recipes for teaching without…

Much of contemporary public finance can be described as being either Wicksellian or Edgeworthian in character. In the former, fiscal phenomena arise through complex processes of exchange; in the latter, they arise through acts of choice by some maximizing agent. This chapter traces these alternative orientations in the history of thought as far back as the Cameralists, compares these writers wi…

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LET ME BEGIN on a personal note. On September 10, 2001, I had worked long into the night making revisions to the book that you are now holding. So I was still asleep at 7 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, when a relative called and blurted out something about the World Trade Center in New York City having been attacked by terrorists. Still groggy, I flicked on the TV. From that moment on, I?like mil…