1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462089403321

Autore

Agnew Hugh LeCaine

Titolo

Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, : Hoover Institution Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8179-4493-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 p.)

Collana

Hoover Inst Press Publication

Altri autori (Persone)

VucinichWayne S

Disciplina

943.71

Soggetti

Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History

Czech Republic -- History

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Central Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""A Guide to Czech Pronunciation""; ""1 Maps, Epochs, Seers, and Saints""; ""2 Dukes and Kings""; ""3 King Foreigner and Pater Patriae ""; ""4 Kingdom of Heretics, or, Against All""; ""5 Recovery and Renaissance""; ""6 Rebellion and Catastrophe""; ""7 Reform, Revolution, and Reaction""; ""8 The ��Springtime of Nations��""; ""9 Viribus Unitis ""; ""10 Fin-de-Sie`cle and Empire�s End""; ""11 An Island of Democracy?""; ""12 From One Totalitarianism to Another""

""13 Victorious February and Tragic August""""14 The Gray Years""; ""15 Velvet Revolution to Velvet Divorce""; ""16 Alone at Last""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""; ""Bibliography""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789701603321

Autore

Picken Gavin N.

Titolo

Spiritual purification and Islam : the life and works of al-Muhasibi / / Gavin Picken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85370-7

1-283-37936-8

9786613379368

0-203-83504-2

1-136-85371-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Routledge Sufi series ; ; 11

Disciplina

297.4092

Soggetti

Muslim scholars

Sufis

Soul - Islam

Sufism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Abbasid crucible: the historical background to al-Muhasibi's life -- Master of the wayfarers: the life of al-Harith al-Muhasibi -- The wayfarer's legacy: the works of al-Harith al-Muhasibi -- Purification of the soul: the concept of tazkiyat al-nafs in Islam -- Purification of the soul in the formative period: al-Muhasibi's methodology of tazkiyat al-nafs.

Sommario/riassunto

Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification. This book examines the work of a scholar of this discipline, al-H?rith al-Muh?sib?, who lived and worked during the classical Islamic period under the Abb?sids. Although al-Muh?sib? was well known for his skills in many disciplines, including the Qur'?n, Prophetic narration and scholastic theology, it is his mastery in the field of Islamic spiritu