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UNINA9910289346203321 |
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Autore |
Weeden Brenda |
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Titolo |
The education of the eye : history of the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838-1881 / / Brenda Weeden |
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London : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 110 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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History of University of Westminster |
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Universities and colleges - England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The Royal Polytechnic Institution's story is the first episode in the long, diverse history of the University of Westminster. Drawing on an extensive range of primary and secondary sources this book explores the Institution's reputation for visual spectacle and the popularisation of science. It is lavishly illustrated with contemporary images.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price." |
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UNINA9910784194303321 |
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Autore |
Sedgwick Mark |
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Saints and Sons : The Making and Remaking of the Rashīdi Aḥmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000 / / Mark Sedgwick |
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Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
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1-280-85978-4 |
9786610859788 |
90-474-0607-9 |
1-4337-0589-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; ; 97 |
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Ahmadiyya - History |
Islam |
Islamic sects - History |
Sufism - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of maps; Preface; Note on transliteration and dating; Introduction; Chapter One Ahmad ibn Idris; Chapter Two The tariqa Muhammadiyya; Chapter Three The Sanusiyya and the Khatmiyya; Chapter Four The Ahmadiyya under al-Rashid; Chapter Five The Ahmadiyya after the death of al-Rashid; Chapter Six The spread of the Dandarawi Ahmadiyya in the Arab world; Chapter Seven The spread of the Dandarawi Ahmadiyya in the Malay world; Chapter Eight Adulation in Egypt; Chapter Nine Institutionalization in Seremban; Chapter Ten Modernity in Singapore; Chapter Eleven Modernity in Cairo and Beirut |
Chapter Twelve The authority of shaykhsGlossary; List of interviewees; Bibliography; Index |
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This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each |
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great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations. |
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