Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, indexTaylor & Francis, 2006 - 933 Seiten Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization. |
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Seite 18 - Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the Presence of their Lord.
Seite 392 - O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as friends. They are friends to one another. Whoever of you befriends them is one of them. Allah does not guide the people who do evil.
Seite 10 - Ho ! a cup, and fill it up, and tell me it is wine, For I will never drink in shade if I can drink in shine ! Curst and poor is every hour that sober I must go, But rich am I whene'er well drunk I stagger to and fro. Speak, for shame, the loved one's name, let vain disguise alone : No good there is in pleasures o'er which a veil is thrown.
Seite 222 - We shall bring thee as a witness against these (thy people): and We have sent down to thee the Book explaining all things, a Guide, a Mercy, and Glad Tidings to Muslims.
Seite 289 - Euclidean proposition that the sum of the angles in a triangle is equal to it is rigorously true for a conceptual triangle as defined in pure geometry.
Seite 284 - A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. 6 vols. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967-93. — . "The Oldest Documentary Evidence for the Title Alflaila wa-laila.
Seite 42 - Mémoire sur l'origine et les anciens monuments de la littérature parmi les Arabes, dans les Mém.
Seite 106 - This is the similitude of Paradise which the godfearing have been promised: therein are rivers of water unstaling, rivers of milk unchanging in flavour, and rivers of wine — a delight to the drinkers, rivers, too, of honey purified...