1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007985960403321

Titolo

Spectral methods for operators of mathematical physics / J. Janas, P. Kurasov, S. Naboko, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : Birkhauser, c2004

ISBN

3-7643-7133-1

Descrizione fisica

viii, 241 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Operator theory, advances and applications ; 154

Disciplina

515.72

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-5-(154

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795078703321

Titolo

'Aṭṭār and the Persian Sufi tradition : the art of spiritual flight / / editors, Leonard Lewisohn, Christopher Shackle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris

London : , : In association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, , 2006

ISBN

0-7556-0956-5

1-78672-018-3

1-78673-018-9

Descrizione fisica

(xxvii, 355 pages , 12 pages of plates) : illustrations, plates

Disciplina

891.5511

Soggetti

Sufism

Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-348) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece "Mantiq al-tayr", or "The Conference of Birds", his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by their provocative and radical theology of love, many lines of 'Attar's epics and lyrics are cited independently of their poems as maxims in their own right. These pithy, paradoxical statements are still known by heart and sung by minstrels throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and wherever Persian is spoken or understood, such as in the lands of the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent. Designed to take its place alongside "The Ocean of the Soul", the classic study of 'Attar by Hellmut Ritter, this volume offers the most comprehensive survey of 'Attar's literary works to date, and situates his poetry and prose within the wider context of the Persian Sufi tradition. The essays in the volume are grouped in three sections, and feature contributions by sixteen scholars from North America, Europe and Iran, which illustrate, from a variety of critical prespectives, the full range of 'Attar's monumental achievement. They show how and why 'Attar's poetical work, as well as his mystical doctrines, came to wield such tremendous and formative influence over the whole of Persian Sufism."--Bloomsbury publishing.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825880703321

Autore

Djordjevic Igor

Titolo

Holinshed's nation : ideals, memory, and practical policy in the Chronicles / / Igor Djordjevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-315-58696-7

1-317-12145-7

1-317-12144-9

1-4724-5900-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Disciplina

941.0072

Soggetti

Historiography - Great Britain - History - 16th century

Great Britain History To 1485 Historiography

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Historiography

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

Cover; Contents; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviated Titles; Introduction; 1 Reading Early Modern Chronicles; 2 Hearing the Trumpet; 3 Reading with "True English Harts"; 4 Seeing the Mirror; 5 A Commonwealth of Readers; 6 Singing Hosanna: Medieval Echoes in the Caroline Twilight; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Igor Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinshed's Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance men and women read and understood historical texts. This study revaluates our understanding of Renaissance chronicle history and the impact of Holinshed on Tudor, Jacobean, and Caroline political discourse; the Chronicles emerge not as a series of rambling, digressive episodes characteristic to a dying medieval genre, but as the preserver of national memory, the teacher of prudent policy, and a builder of the commonwealth ideal.