1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000436330203316

Autore

BERGONZI, Bernard

Titolo

Exploding English : criticism, theory, culture / Bernard Bergonzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1990

ISBN

0-19-812852-5

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 240 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

420.09

Soggetti

Filologia inglese - Gran bretagna - Storia - Sec. 20

Filologia inglese - Stati Uniti d'America - Storia - Sec. 20

Collocazione

VII.3.B. 155 (IL i I 266)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996207717803316

Titolo

Oceans 2005 : Washington DC : 17-23 September, 2005

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2006

Disciplina

620/.4162

Soggetti

Oceanography

Ocean engineering

Marine resources

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Marine Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791988103321

Autore

Kugle Scott Alan <1969->

Titolo

Sufis & saints' bodies [[electronic resource] ] : mysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam / / Scott Kugle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0268-7

0-8078-7277-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks

Disciplina

297.4/12

Soggetti

Human body - Religious aspects - Islam

Human body (Philosophy)

Sufism - Doctrines

Mysticism - Islam

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

Introduction -- Body enshrined: the bones of Mawlay Idrīs -- Body politicized: the belly of sayyida Āmina -- Body refined: the eyes of Muḥammad Ghawth -- Body enraptured: the lips of Shāh Ḥussayn -- Body revived: the heart of Ḥājji Imdādullah -- Conclusion: corporeality and sacred power in Islam.

Sommario/riassunto

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.<BR><BR><i>Sufis and Saints' Bodies</i> focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the