Conference of the Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conference of the Books write by Khaled Abou El Fadl. This book was released on 2001. Conference of the Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on classical Muslim authors, he both traces Muslim intellectual history and also confronts questions of ethics, faith, law, politics, culture, and modern identity. He ranges over many facets of Islam in the contemporary world, exploring censorship, political oppression, terrorism, the veil and the treatment of women, marriage, parental rights, the dynamics between law and morality, the character of the prophet Muhammad, and other topics. About half the essays first appeared in The minaret magazine. c. Book News Inc.
The Search for Beauty in Islam
The Search for Beauty in Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Search for Beauty in Islam write by Khaled Abou El Fadl. This book was released on 2006. The Search for Beauty in Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through a "conference of the books," an imagined conference of Muslim intellects from centuries past, Abou El Fadl examines the ugliness that has come to plague Muslim realities and attempts to reclaim what he maintains is a core moral value in Islam-the value of beauty. Does Islamic law allow, or even call for, the gruesome acts of ugliness that have become so commonly associated with Islam today? Has Islam become a religion devoid of beauty, compassion and love? Based on actual cases, this book tackles different issues and problems in each chapter through a post-9/11 lens, discussing such topics as marriage, divorce, parental rights, the position of women, the veil, sexual abuse, wife-beating, terrorism, bigotry, morality, law, and the role of tradition. Abou El Fadl argues that the rekindling of the forgotten value of beauty is essential for Muslims today to take back what has been lost to the fundamentalist forces that have denigrated their religion.
The Cairo Conference of 1943
The Cairo Conference of 1943 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cairo Conference of 1943 write by Ronald Ian Heiferman. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Cairo Conference of 1943 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For four days in November 1943, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the future of the war in the China-Burma-India Theater and plans for the ultimate defeat of Japan. This would be the first and last time that these leaders would meet. This book chronicles the Cairo Conference, the events leading up to the conference, and the consequences of the decisions, understandings and misunderstandings that resulted from the summit. The only book-length study of the subject, this text examines the enormous impact the conference had on the course of the war in Asia and post-war Sino-Western relations.
Wonderworks
Wonderworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonderworks write by Angus Fletcher. This book was released on 2022-03-08. Wonderworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls)
The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) write by César Aira. This book was released on 2010-05-25. The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world. César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate’s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César’s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s take over of literature in the 21st century.
