World of Books - Find your book here

Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam

Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam

Carl W. Ernst

With that fact in mind, Carl Ernst explores the broadest range of Sufi philosophies and practices to provide one of the most complete and comprehensive introductions to Sufism available in English.
Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Carl W. Ernst

Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.
Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in ...

Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in ...

Carl W. Ernst

Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism Carl W. Ernst. RUZBIHAN BAQLI MYSTICISM AND THE RHETORIC OF SAINTHOOI) IN PERSIAN SUFISM CARL W. ERNST CURZON Ri'izbihz'm Baqli: Mysticism and ths Rhetoric of ...
Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

Carl W. Ernst

This is the first in-depth study in English of the import and impact of ecstatic utterances (shathiyat) in classical Islamic mysticism.
Bulletin - Cooperative Extension Service, Montana State ...

Bulletin - Cooperative Extension Service, Montana State ...

Montana State College. Cooperative Extension Service

... Arnold Engellant Ft. Benton Laverne Barnes Great Falls Fr. Carl Erickson Ft. Benton Dale Bauman Power Olga Erickson Ft. Benton Dale Beck Fairfield Gene Ernst Stanford Catherine Becker Geyser Ward N. Ernst Stanford Robert Beckstrom ...
Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South ...

Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South ...

Carl W. Ernst

Reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d. 1337) and his disciples.
Kirchner

Kirchner

Klaus Carl

The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism.
Blue Skies of El Dorado

Blue Skies of El Dorado

Carl J. Barger

Carl J. Barger. BLUESKIESOFELDORADO Carl J. Barger Copyright © 2016 Carl J. Barger. All rights reserved. No. Front Cover.
Ernst:

Ernst:

Max Ernst

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in artistory.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938: On the Edge of the Abyss of ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938: On the Edge of the Abyss of ...

Norbert Wolf

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia. His family - as he later never tired of emphasizing - could be traced back on his father's side to the sixteenth century. His father, Ernst, an engineer and ...
The Shambhala Guide to Sufism

The Shambhala Guide to Sufism

Carl W. Ernst

The soaring voice of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the ecstatic dance of the Whirling Dervishes, the rapturous verse of Jalaluddin Rumi—all are expressions of Sufism, often regarded as the mystical tradition of Islam.
Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth

Ernst Kurth Lee A. Rothfarb. Deutschen (1890), a "rhapsody of irrationality," ... Stern's book contains the most extensive critical exposition in English of Langbehn's background and career. In four detailed chapters Stern covers Langbehn's ...
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, ...

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, ...

Preview

A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies Ernst von Weiszäcker ... Steuersystems'', in: Mauch, Samuel; Iten, Rolf; Weizsäcker, Ernst U. von; Jesinghaus, Jochen (Eds.): Ökologische Steuerreform (Zurich: Rüegger Verlag).
Turtles of the United States and Canada

Turtles of the United States and Canada

Carl H. Ernst

The book includes range maps for freshwater and terrestrial species, a glossary of scientific names, an extensive bibliography for further research, and an index to scientific and common names.
Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga

Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga

Carl W. Ernst

The essays explore Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, including translations of previously unavailable texts, and revealing unexpected insights into the lives, practices, and teachings of Indian Muslims over nearly a ...
The Roster of International Arbitrators

The Roster of International Arbitrators

Hans Smit

... Ernst Perlberger, Martin Masoni, Franco Ramos Mendez, Francisco Matter, Rudolph Rosauer, Giulio McLaughlin, Joseph T. Roscioni, Remo Montes de Echeverri, Susana Rubino-Summartano, Mauro Neill, Patrick Salans, Carl F. O' Farrell, ...
American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization

American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization

Ernst Breisach

See Carl L. Becker, review of Maurice Mandelbaum's The Problem of Historical Knowledge: An Answer to Relativism, in Philosophical Review 49 (April 1940): 361-64; and Beard's review of the same book in AHR 44 (April 1939): 571-72, cited ...
Studia nad faszyzmem i zbrodniami hitlerowskimi

Studia nad faszyzmem i zbrodniami hitlerowskimi

More editions

ks. Filip Heski, ks. Prus August Wilhelm („Auwi"), oficerowie Reichswehry i policji, czołowy funkcjonariusz aparatu propagandy Rzeszy Karoly Kampmann, dziennikarz Carl Martin Köhn, szef produkcji Ufy Ernst Hugo Correll, reżyser Richard ...
How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

Carl W. Ernst

For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide.
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and ...

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and ...

More editions

Mrs. Esther Johnson's maiden name—~Esther E. Frye—was restored on her own petition. Ernst Marquardt, Carl Daberkow, Peter Thomsen, Michael Kroeger, Joachim F. Dibbern, Bertha Wiese, Charles Stolle, Peter Mohr, John Mohr, Juergen ...
Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces: Analytical and ...

Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces: Analytical and ...

Christian Klein

Ernst. Equation. As already noted, the Einstein equations do not appear to be generically integrable. To find exact solutions, spacetimes with symmetries have to be considered, see [35] for a review. As Geroch has shown [64], already a space- ...
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Ernst Breisach

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Ernst Breisach

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

M. E. Warlick

WITHIN the remarkable continuity of Ernst's visual motifs — birds, machines, vegetation, vertical forests, horizontal landscapes, and seascapes — the feminine image was persistently embedded. Derived from both Freudian and alchemical ...
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

Robert E. Lerner

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time.
The United States: An Experiment in Democracy

The United States: An Experiment in Democracy

Carl Carl Lotus Becker

According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal ...
Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain

Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain

Preview

Jennifer Tavlor Into Exile: Ernst Sommer in London This paper examines the life and work of the Jewish German-Bohemian writer Ernst Sommer in England and, by reference to previously unpublished correspondence, details the extent of his  ...
Ernst Mach’s World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy

Ernst Mach’s World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy

E.C. Banks

Like Richard Hönigswald's Kritik der Machschen Philosophie (1903) and Herbert Buzello's Kritische Untersuchungen von Ernst Machs Erkenntnistheorie (1911), some trenchant criticism came from neoKantian philosophers anxious to defend ...
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

David Hopkins

The Glass in fact provides an opening for the next phase of the discussion, since the prominent bird images in Ernst's picture — the descendants of many earlier bird and bird/human figures as will be shown — bear surprising links with ...
The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch

The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch

Wayne Hudson

Ehrhard Bahr, Ernst Bloch (Berlin: Colloquium, 1974) p. 17, in the Köpfe des XX. Jahrhunderts series. This volume contains useful, though highly selective, biographical material, much of it supplied by Karola Bloch. For Bloch's life generally, ...

who called from an unknown number?