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“jane casewit”

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  • A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching

    The Way and Its Virtue

    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    Translated by Mohammad Faghfoory, Toshihiko Izutsu ...
    In 1974, the oldest extant copy of Lao Tzu' s Tao Te Ching (6-4th century BCE) was unearthed at Xi' an along with the ceramic warriors guarding the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang. By 1979, Professor Toshihiko Izutsu— the Japanese Islamicist, philosopher and linguist— collaborated in Tehran with Seyyed Hossein Nasr to translate this treasure into English. Dr. Nasr went on to put it ... Read more

    $18.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr. Griffin and the Treasure Hunt

    An Adventure Through Symbols

    by Jane Fatima Casewit ...
    Nothing is more important in children's education than an understanding of symbolism and how to apply its wisdom continuously to daily life. The language of symbolism conveys essential teachings which help a person to understand the meaning of life as well as the foundational and sacred principles which underlie an otherwise seemingly deadend materialistic reality.- Virginia Gray Henry, Director, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Education in the Light of Tradition

    Studies in Comparative Religion

    Edited by Jane Casewit ...
    C.S. Lewis once remarked, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” In most modern cultures, their education systems are often portrayed by the media to be “failing” and in need of reform. In this unique collection of 19 essays, a diverse collection of authors examine the traditional principles of education and how knowledge and values are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Living Islamic City

    Fez and Its Preservation

    by Titus Burckhardt ...
    Translated by Jane Casewit ...
    The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez in particular and Morocco in general. These newly translated lectures, delivered while Burckhardt was living and working in Fez, explore how the historic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by K. M. Ashman ...
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    In this conspiracy thriller, a special investigator and a librarian go in search of treasure, uncovering a mystery with global historical consequences. Incomparable riches, like none other in history, are close to being revealed . . .An email from a dead man, and an encrypted letter from the sixteenth century both hint at a treasure trail, leading back to the greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... Read more

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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    **"History is constantly being rewritten. This book reminds us that the center always changes.”—David ByrneThe forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy**In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing ... Read more

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  • Toward a True Kinship of Faiths

    How the World's Religions Can Come Together

    by Dalai Lama ...
    No country, no culture, no person today is untouched by what happens in the rest of the world. Technological innovation, environmental degradation, economic gain & loss, nuclear weapons, instant communication have all created unprecedented familiarity among the world’s many cultures. With this historic development, the Dalai Lama understands that the essential task of humanity in the 21st Century ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The World's Religions, Revised and Updated

    A Concise Introduction

    by Huston Smith ...
    The World’s Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world’s predominant faiths. This essential guide to comparative religion covers Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as regional native traditions.This revised and updated ... Read more

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  • The Classical Age of Islam

    by Marshall G.S. Hodgson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
    First in the comprehensive, three-volume history of Islamic culture and religion from the award-winning scholar and world historian."This is a nonpareil work, not only because of its command of its subject but also because it demonstrates how, ideally, history should be written." — The New YorkerThe Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early ... Read more

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  • The Mysticism of Sound and Music

    The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

    by Hazrat Inayat Khan ...
    The first teacher to bring Islamic mysticism to the West presents music’s divine nature and its connection to our daily lives in this poetic classic of Sufi literatureMusic, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 ... Read more

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  • The Go-Between

    A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

    by Osman Yousefzada ...
    **WINNER OF THE BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de Waal**A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout migrant Muslim ... Read more

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  • Scheherazade Goes West

    Different Cultures, Different Harems

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt....So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons ... Read more

    $13.99 USD