A monk of Fife ... /
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"The illustrations and the initial letters are from drawings by Selwyn Image."
On t.p.: Being the chronicle written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, concerning marvellous deeds that befell in the realm of France, in the years of our redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXI. Now first done into English out of the French. :
viii, 395 pages : Illustrations ; 20 cm.
Histories of the monks of upper Egypt : And, The life of Onnophrius /
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Spine title : Histories of the monks of upper Egypt & the life of Onnophrius translated from the coptic.
Translated of : Historia monachorum in Aegypto. :
179 pages : maps ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographucal references (pages 167-171) and indexes. :
087907440x
The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices : Contextualising a Fourth-Century Monastic Community /
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This work tells the story of a community of fourth-century monks living in Egypt. The letters they wrote and received were found within the covers of works that changed our understanding of early religious thought - the Nag Hammadi Codices. This book seeks to contextualise the letters and answer questions about monastic life. Significantly, new evidence is presented that links the letters directly to the authors and creators of the codices in which they were discovered.
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1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004699083
The city of the moon god : religious traditions of Harran /
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This study treats the religious and intellectual history of the city of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical times down to the establishment of Islam. The author starts from the well-known reference in the Qur'an and the early Islamic histories to the people of Harran as Sabians, one of the 'peoples of the book.' The author unravels strands of religious tradition in Harran that run from the old Semitic planetary cults through Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects such as the Sufis and Shiites.
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1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-224) and index. :
9789004301429 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Writing the word of God : calligraphy and the Qur'an /
: Published to coincide with the exhibitions Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900 and Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qurʼan, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Harvard University Art Museums and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 27, 2007-February 2, 2008, and at the Asia Society, October 6, 2008-February 1, 2009. : vii, 55 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9780300142006
Walking on the pages of the Word of God : self, land, and text among Evangelical volunteers in Jerusalem /
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In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to "bless the Jewish people". Relying on ethnographic data of the discursive practices of the volunteers, the book explores a central puzzle of Zionist Christianity: the narrative production of Israel's religious significance and its relationship to broader Christian language traditions. By focusing on the volunteers' stories about themselves, the land and the Bible, Aron Engberg offers a convincing account about how the State of Israel is finding its way into evangelical identities.
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Originally published: Lund : Lund University, 2016. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004411890
God's Word, Spoken or Otherwise : Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) Muslim Exegesis of the Bible /
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Set in British India soon after the Uprising of 1857, God's Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores the controversial and ingenious ideas of one of South Asia's most influential public thinkers, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Bringing to light previously unpublished material from his exegetical commentaries on the Bible and Qur'an, this study explores the interplay of natural and prophetic revelation from an intertextual perspective. The book provides fresh insight into Sir Sayyid's life and work, and underscores both the originality of his ideas, and also their continuity within a dynamic Muslim intellectual tradition.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004472402
9789004467293