Deciphering the Signs of God: Phenomenological Approach to Islam - Couverture rigide

Schimmel, Annemarie

 
9780748604609: Deciphering the Signs of God: Phenomenological Approach to Islam
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 074860460X ISBN 13 : 9780748604609
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The Qur'an constantly exhorts people to "look at the signs of god", signs that are hidden "in the horizons and in themselves". In this book, Professor Schimmel attempts to understand the mysteries of Islam using a phenomenological method, developed by Friedrich Heiler to draw closer to the true centre of Islamic belief. Beginning with the simplest "signs of god", such as stones, plants and animals (and their survival in the religious and symbolic language), she moves on to less obvious signs, such as sacred time and space, ritual actions, forms of worship, the sacred individual, the order of the community, and finally to the human being's response to the mystery of the Divine. Based on sources in the original languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and Sindhi) and the author's personal experience, this book is a survey of Islamic customs and beliefs, as well as an attempt to show the place of the Islamic religion in the religious universe.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
074860460X
ISBN 13 
9780748604609
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780791419823: Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam

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ISBN 10 :  0791419827 ISBN 13 :  9780791419823
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1994
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