Factional Conflict in the Sudanese Nationalist Movement: 1918-1948 (Graduate College Publications)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hasabu, Afaf A. Abu

Politics & Government

Garnet Publishing

Long-awaited new edition!Volume I of a fourteenth-century tetralogy examining the Prophet Muhammad's life and calling, containing the fullest available account of Islam's foundational years.

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume I (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

Religion & Spirituality

Kathīr, Ibn

Islam

Long-awaited new edition!Volume II of Ibn Kathir's chronology of Muhammad's life covers, amongst other events, the first year of the hegira; the first Islamic military expedition; and verses composed about the Battle of Badr.

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume II (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

Volume III of Ibn Kathīr’s chronology of Muḥammad’s life covers, amongst other events, an account of the Jews of Medina; an account of the institution of hijab; and messages sent by the Prophet to foreign rulers inviting them to Islam.

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume III (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

Long-awaited new edition!Volume IV of Ibn Kathir's chronology of Muhammad's life covers, amongst other events, the arrival of delegations from abroad to Muhammad and the first Muslims, and the Prophet's 'farewell pilgrimage' in 632 CE.

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume IV (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Rebuttal of the Logicians (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The formidable theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (1263—1328) objected to the influence of Greek philosophy on Islamic thought. This book is his sustained attack on Aristotelian logic and the principles of Greek logical systems generally, contesting the use of syllogistic formulae to attain certitude.

Taymiyyah, Ibn

The formidable theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (1263--1328) objected to the influence of Greek philosophy on Islamic thought.\nThis book is his sustained attack on Aristotelian logic and the principles of Greek logical systems generally, contesting the use of syllogistic formulae to attain certitude.

History

World

In 1866, Emil Vasilyevich Bretschneider was posted to China, where he then spent eighteen years, as physician to the Russian Embassy. Not content simply to fulfil his medical role, he exercised his extraordinary energy in numerous fields. Very quickly Bretschneider acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, spoken and written, and early in the 1870s he published a serious monographic study on the historical-archaeological exploration of Peking. He then turned his attention to historical geography, and to the history of botanical research in China – a subject on which he would later write several key works and earn worldwide fame. During his time at the embassy Bretschneider was especially interested in the daily lives of the Chinese people around him; curiosity and scientific rigour made him a natural ethnographer, and he appears to have desired to understand as profoundly as possible the life of the Chinese people. To make a visual record of what he saw, Bretschneider commissioned from Chinese artists a huge number of paintings detailing all aspects of daily life. The original paintings are now held in the archive of the St Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, one of Europe's most important collections of oriental manuscripts. The paintings have only recently been made available for publication, and a selection capturing a vivid and authentic picture of everyday life in Peking – with its acrobats, Buddhist monks, dentist and bonesetters – is published here.

The Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The Stone of Laughter is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor and cynical observations about life in a war-torn city. The fractured narrative is woven around Khalil, an androgynous young man who is town between masculinity and feminity. Trying to avoid ideological or military afficliations, he finds himself confronted with the collapse of his civil society and reacts by withdrawing into his domestic life. His only contact with the world at large is through friends at a newspaper, for whom falling bombs may mean great stories and promotion, rather than tragedy or destruction. Khalil struggles to keep himself away from the war but is inevitably drawn in as he realises that in a city at war, no one can remain neutral.Written sensitively, and without a trace of sentimentality or political propaganda, The Stone of Laughter shook the preconceptions of Arab readers about women's writing and the necessity of political affiliation for Arab writers. Hailed by many critics as the best novel set against the background of the Lebanese civil war, it wond the prestigious Al-Naqid Award for first novels.

The Stone of Laughter

Literature & Fiction

Barakat, Hoda

Literary

To complement the novels in Garnet’s award-winning Arab Women Writers series, In the House of Silence is a collection of autobiographical writings by thirteen leading Arab women authors. Through these testimonies the women describe their experiences and expose the often-difficult conditions under which their narratives were woven. Patterns emerge, which run throughout their testimonies – experiences of confinement, subjugation, the struggle for education and the eventual use of writing as a way out. They speak of their own reasons for writing, of how experiences in family life, politics, exile and even imprisonment have affected them and their work, and of how their motivation has been both tested and reinforced by various setbacks and the struggle for recognition. Startlingly honest, these testimonies will be essential reading for all those interested in women’s roles in Arab society and the ways that these roles are changing.

In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers

Biographies & Memoirs

Faqir, Fadia

Community & Culture

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Factional Conflict in the Sudanese Nationalist Movement: 1918-1948 (Graduate College Publications)

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume I (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume II (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume III (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad: Volume IV (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Rebuttal of the Logicians (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Rebuttal of the Logicians (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

The Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China

The Stone of Laughter

In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers