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  • Understanding Islam: 7 Classic Books on Faith, History, and Philosophy

    Classic Perspectives on Faith, the Qur'an, the Prophet, and Muslim Civilization

    by Thomas Patrick Hughes, Muhammad, Arthur Glyn Leonard, Gladys M. Draycott, Ahmed Sir Hussain, Etienne Dinet, Sliman Ben Ibrahim, Marmaduke William Pickthall ...
    Understanding Islam gathers seven classic texts that approach Islam through theology, history, philosophy, travel, cultural observation, and literary reflection. Its range extends from explanatory surveys of belief and practice to meditations on prophetic tradition, Muslim society, and the ethical imagination of faith. The volume's significance lies in its juxtaposition of insider testimony and ... Read more

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  • Throwing the Moral Dice

    Ethics and the Problem of Contingency

    by Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi, Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe0, Slavoj Žižek1 ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Gayborhood

    From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle

    by Christopher T. Conner, Daniel Okamura, Adriana Brodyn, Jeffrey Escoffier, Amin Ghaziani, Theo Greene, Aliraza Javaid, Jonathan Jimenez, Greggor Mattson0, Étienne Meunier1, Jason Orne2, Vanessa Panfil3, Thomas Penney4, Magdalena Wojciechowska5, C.J. Janovy6, Omar Ali Mushtaq7 ...
    The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. Gay urban enclaves, known colloquially as gayborhoods, illustrate the evolution of LGBT+ political capacity building. Since their emergence after World War II, gayborhoods have homogenized at the expense of women, transgender, and nonwhite persons due ... Read more

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  • The Koran

    by Mohammed ...
    Series series Islamic Library
    Koran is the central religious text of Islam, a revelation from God (Allah). The Koran was orally revealed by God to the final prophet, Muhammed, through the archangel Gabriel, incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning in the month of Ramadan, when Muhammed was 40. ... Read more

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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
    In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Balibar explores ... Read more

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  • Holy Quran

    by Maulana Muhammad Ali ...
    The Holy Qur'an EBook versionEnglish Translation and Commentary• Detailed commentary with extensive references to standard authorities, both classical and modern• Comprehensive introduction deals with Islamic teachings and the collection and arrangement of the Holy Qur'an• Extensive IndexReviews"There is no other translation or commentary of the Holy Qur'an in the English Language to compete with ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

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  • Complete Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)

    by Rumi Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 59 - Delphi Poets Series
    The greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, Rumi has widely influenced mystical thought and literature throughout history. Today, Rumi is one of the most read poets of the world, whose wise teachings in ‘The Masnavi’ and exquisite verses of the ‘Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi’ transcend all boundaries in their mystic brilliance. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of ... Read more

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  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

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  • The Alchemy Of Happiness

    by Al-Ghazzali, Claud Field ...
    The Alchemy of Happinessby Al-Ghazzali, tr. by Claud FieldAlthough he is not from everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine. When in the crucible of abstinence he is purged from carnal passions he attains to the highest, and in place of being a slave to lust and anger becomes endued with angelic qualities. Attaining that state, ... Read more

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  • Nomadic Theory

    The Portable Rosi Braidotti

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over ... Read more

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  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD