1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968754603321

Autore

Ilahi Nur Ali <1895-1974.>

Titolo

Knowing the spirit / / Ostad Elahi ; translated and with an introduction by James Winston Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

9780791481202

0791481204

9781429471268

1429471263

Descrizione fisica

viii, 158 p

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrisJames Winston <1949->

Disciplina

297.2/25

Soggetti

Soul - Islam

Islam - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Persian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Knowing the Spirit -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Translator's Introduction -- I. Ostad Elahi's Life and Works -- Childhood and Youth -- Professional Life and Judicial Career -- The Final Period: Writing and Teaching -- Ostad Elahi's Published Works: The Place of Knowing the Spirit -- II. Historical Contexts: The Audience, Language, andStructure of Ma'rifat ar-R¶h -- The "Three Sources": Rational Argument, Religious Tradition,and Spiritual Experience -- Allusion and Realization -- The Basic Structure of Knowing the Spirit: The Originationand the Return -- III. The Contemporary Significance of Knowing the Spirit -- The Persian Text andTranslation Conventions -- Knowing the Spirit -- Original Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Establishing the Existenceof the Divine Artisan -- 2. The Spirit -- 3. The Gathering, Reawakening,and Returning (of the Spirit)in the Realm of Return -- 4. The Purely Bodily Return -- 5. The Purely Spiritual Return -- 6. The Harmonization of a Bodily and Spiritual Return -- 7. The (Spirit's) Return by Way of the Process of Perfection -- 8. The Belief of the Proponents of Transmigration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes to the Translator'sIntroduction -- Notes to the Translation -- Bibliography --



References Originally Cited by Ostad Elahi -- Works Cited in the Translator's Introduction and Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

A modern spiritual classic on the perfection of the soul by a renowned writer from the Islamic tradition.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971360103321

Autore

Rogers Ibram H

Titolo

The Black Campus Movement : Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 / / by Ibram X. Kendi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9786613657350

9781280680427

1280680423

9781137016508

1137016507

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Black History

Classificazione

HIS036060HIS054000HIS037070EDU016000EDU015000

Disciplina

378.1/982996073

Soggetti

Education - History

Civilization - History

Education, Higher

United States - History

History, Modern

Social history

History of Education

Cultural History

Higher Education

US History

Modern History

Social History

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; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; 1 An "Island Within": Black Students and Black Higher Education Prior to 1965; 2 "God Speed the Breed": New Negro in the Long Black Student Movement; 3 "Strike While the Iron Is Hot": Civil Rights in the Long Black Student Movement; 4 "March Th at Won't Turn Around": Formation and Development of the Black Campus Movement; 5 "Shuddering in a Paroxysm of Black Power": A Narrative Overview of the Black Campus Movement

6 "A Fly in Buttermilk": Black Campus Movement Organizations, Demands, Protests, and Support7 "Black Jim Crow Studies": Opposition and Repression; 8 "Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck": The Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education; Epilogue: Backlash and Forward Lashes of the Black Campus Movement; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.