Books written by John Renard
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Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims
Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to communicate religious values.
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Islam and the Heroic Image: Themes in Literature and the Visual Arts
Because he has not done so, Sinimmar meets his death by freefall.35 Nizami's Haft Paykar (Seven Portraits) develops the imagery of Khawarnaq, and the seven pavilions related to it, most extensively. In Nizami's version of the story, ...
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Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims
"Comprehensive and accessible, this book is a richly textured and wide-ranging introduction to Islamic spirituality and a refreshing change from the obsession with current politics that characterizes most approaches of Islam.
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Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective
Translated by John A. Mou- rant and William J. Colling. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1992. ———. ... Bill, James A., and John Alden Williams. Roman Catholics and Shi`i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and Politics.
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Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
Stephen E. Witmer, Divine Instruction in Early Christianity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2008). Against the backdrop of “divine instruction” in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish literature (especially Josephus and Philo), Witmer analyzes how ...
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Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
... supplement volume, 2004; Ira Robinson, “Hasidic Hagiography and Jewish Modernity,” in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, ed. Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers (Hanover & London: University Press ...
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Historical Dictionary of Sufism
Jackson, Sherman A. Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allah al-Sakandarī's Tāj al-ʿArūs. New York: Oxford University ... Alger/Lyon: Messerschmitt/P. Derain, 1953/1952. Junayd, Abū al-Qāsim al-. Enseignement spirituel: traités, lettres, ...
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Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood
23 A variety of stories focus on the gestational life of later medieval great South Asian Friends as well. When BıbıZulaykha was pregnant with Nizam ... In one story,
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The A to Z of Sufism
... and prose in which he expands on a series of allusive statements (“flashes”) focused on the theme of divine love. ... FANSURI. FAQIR. See DERVISH. FAQR. See POVERTY. FARD. See FRIEND OF GOD. FARID AD-DIN GANJ-I SHAKAR (a.k.a. Bābā ...
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Historical Dictionary of Sufism
... 2005 Seventh-Day Adventists, by Gary Land, 2005 Methodism, 2nd ed.,by Charles Yrigoyen Jr. and Susan E. Warrick, 2005 Sufism, by John Renard, 2005 Historical Dictionary of Sufism John Renard Historical Dictionaries of Religions,
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The Handy Religion Answer Book
This book contains detailed descriptions of the history, beliefs, symbols, rituals, observations, customs, membership, leaders, and organization of the world’s eight major religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, ...
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The Handy Islam Answer Book
This helpful books also provides a historic timeline, a glossary of commonly used terms, a genealogy from Adam to Muhammad and beyond, a calendar of major observances, an extensive index, and a bibliography help further exploration of one ...
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Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader
Liu Zhi, the most systematic of the Muslim scholars writing in Chinese, depicts six ascending levels of nature, a scheme derived mainly ... See Sachiko Murata, William Chittick, and Tu Wei Ming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi (Cambridge, ...
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Crossing Confessional Boundaries: Exemplary Lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.
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Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader
structure and contents Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader organizes the material into five major parts according to genre and theme. Text selection resulted from a number of considerations. First, I wanted to provide ...
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Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts
With its nuanced consideration of a complex topic, this book is not merely about the religious sanctioning of violence but also about diverse ways of reading sacred textual sources.
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The Handy Religion Answer Book
Shinto. Breen, John. A new history of Shinto. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ... Shinto. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2006. Kasulis, Thomas P. Shinto: the way home. ... Simple guides: Shinto. London: Kuperard, 2008.
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Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts
With its nuanced consideration of a complex topic, this book is not merely about the religious sanctioning of violence but also about diverse ways of reading sacred textual sources.
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The Handy Islam Answer Book
The Handy African American History Answer Book by Jessie Carnie Smith ISBN: 978-1-57859-452-8 The Handy American History Answer Book by David Hudson ISBN: 978-1-57859-471-9 The Handy Anatomy Answer Book by James Bobick and Naomi Balaban ...
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Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation
"The works of Islamic mysticism are a crucial genre of Islamic piety, and the lives of the awliya (friends of God) have been and continue to be a crucial way in which the theoretical insights of Sufism are embodied and communicated to a ...