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The Epistle of Forgiveness
Volume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness...
Democracy is the Answer
Egypt's Years of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it—and try to push it in productive directions—than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany...
by Al Sayyid Ali Al-Husayni Al-Sistani
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The current volume represents a translation of the section pertaining to ritual acts of worship in the Persian Tawdīh al-Masā’il (literally, Explanation of Rulings) of His Eminence Ali al-Husayni al-Sayyid al-Sistani. The text used for this translation is the thirty-first edition, published in 2014 by the Qum office of His Eminence
In Darfur
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A merchant’s account of his travels through an independent African state
Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set...
by Al-Anon Family Groups
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
The Forum is an international monthly publication of Al‑Anon Family Groups, a fellowship that offers strength and hope for the friends and families of problem drinkers. In the pages of this magazine, Al‑Anon and Alateen members share their challenges, insights, and progress along their path of...
by Al-Anon Family Groups
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
The Forum is an international monthly publication of Al‑Anon Family Groups, a fellowship that offers strength and hope for the friends and families of problem drinkers. In the pages of this magazine, Al‑Anon and Alateen members share their challenges, insights, and progress along their path of...
From Dictatorship to Democracy
An Insider's Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality....
by Sheikh al-Mufid
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Sheikh al-Mufid wrote nearly 194 books and treatises, out of which few have survived passage of time, and meticulously planned destruction of the Shia resources. Among the surviving ones, we have his "AL AMAALI" which is also known as "AL-MAJAALIS". His student al-Najashi has mentioned it as "AL-AMAALI AL-MUTAFARRIQAAT".
Disagreements of the Jurists
A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Al-Qadi al-Nu?man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimids’ principle of legitimate...
La grande peste en Espagne musulmane au XIVe siècle
Le récit d'un contemporain de la pandémie du XIVe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Édition de l’œuvre de Abū Ǧa‘far Ibn Ḫātima al-Anṣārī Taḥṣīl ġaraḍ al-qāṣid fī tafṣīl al-maraḍ al-wāfid (« Réponse à la demande de qui désire étudier la maladie venue d’ailleurs »), manuscrit traduit et édité par Suzanne Gigandet. Abū Ǧa‘far Ibn Ḫātima...
Sticking My Ads Out
It’S Not Creative Unless It Sells.
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
In the first part of this warm and funny memoir Al Hampel relates his life growing up a poor kid in the industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. He attends the Y camp in nearby Pennsylvania as a charity case wearing hand-me-down donations with labels featuring assorted names he never heard of. Just...
La fisica della vita
La nuova scienza della biologia quantistica
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 27, 2015
«Un libro rivoluzionario. Per chi cerca un libro davvero originale su un campo di ricerca completamente nuovo.»
Financial Times
Nessuno finora è riuscito a creare la vita. A tutt’oggi, pur con tutte le dichiarazioni roboanti della «biologia sintetica», l’unico modo per «costruire»...
The Book of Khartoum
A City in Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point...
by Ayatullah Muhammad Baqir Al Sadr
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
We express our gratitude to Allah, the Glorious,the One Who can grant us success in publishing this book entitled "Contemporary Man and the Social Problem" (al-Insan al-ma`asir wal'-mushkilah al-ijtima`iyyah) written by the great scholar, witness and Islamic thinker, asSayyid Muhammad Bagir...