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Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: an Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas
"This interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new…
Cosmos and Psyche: Imitations of a New World View
Seeks to demonstrate the existence of a direct connection between the planetary movements and human history, and examines such ancient and modern events as the French Revolution and September 11th.
Creative Imagination in Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest…
Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State
"In Crossroads to Islam, Yehuda Nevo and Judith Koren offer a controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, presenting a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion from the early 7th to the…
Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles
"Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late…
Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise
A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.