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  • Audiobook

    Antigone

    by Sophocles ...
    Narrated by Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett, David Goldfarb, Lucy Perry, Algy Pug, Bruce Pirie, Martin Geeson, David Lawrence, Lars Rolander ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 13 min

    Antigone by Sophocles Audiobook is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Qur'an

    A Verse Translation

    by M.A.R. Habib, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Islam’s founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse.This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur'an: A Verse Translation offers readers the first rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Qur'an

    A Biography

    by Bruce Lawrence ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World
    A "timely and provocative" biography of Islam's foundational text: "The history of the book is a map of the world we live in today" ( Tribune-Review).Few books in history have been as poorly understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an is the unmediated word of Allah: a ritual, political, and legal authority; an ethical and spiritual guide; ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rethinking Islamic Studies

    From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Religion
    A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist eraRethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, one that includes religious studies and other politically infused fields of inquiry ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who is Allah?

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...

    $20.39 USD

  • The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader

    Islam beyond Borders

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Koran in English

    A Biography

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing, in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence ... Read more

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  • Who Is Allah?

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    This vivid introduction to the heart of Islam offers a unique approach to understanding Allah, the central focus of Muslim religious expression. Drawing on history, culture, theology, politics, and the media, Bruce B. Lawrence identifies key religious practices by which Allah is revered and remembered, illuminating how the very name of Allah is interwoven into the everyday experience of millions ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed to societies across the agesIn Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, delivers a spiritual elan filtered through cultural practices and artefacts. Neither juridical nor creedal, the book expresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • On Violence

    A Reader

    Edited by Aisha Karim, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Congress Reconsidered

    Edited by Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Ruth Bloch Rubin, C. Lawrence Evans ...
    Since its first edition, Congress Reconsidered was designed to make available the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both challenging and accessible to undergraduates.With their Thirteenth Edition, Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, and C. Lawrence Evans, and now Ruth Bloch Rubin from the University of Chicago, continue this tradition as their ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Qur'an

    A Biography

    by Bruce Lawrence ...
    Narrated by Michael Prichard ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World

    Unabridged

    5 hours 11 min

    Few books in history have been as important or as poorly understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an is the unmediated word of Allah: a ritual, political, and legal authority, an ethical and spiritual guide, and a literary masterpiece. It is revered by Muslims throughout the world, in whom it inspires devotion, passion, fear, and sometimes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook