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The ornament of the world: how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as…
Readings from the Mystics of Islam: translations from the Arabic and Persian, together with a short account of the history and doctrines of Ṣūfism and brief biographical notes on each Ṣufī writer
"This book, containing a short account of the history and development of Islamic mysticism, followed by translations fo the sayings and writings of nearly fifty of the mystics of Islam, both Arab and Persian, may be a means of increasing the…
Combined Chronology, For Use with The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett and The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky to A.P. Sinnett
[arranged by] Margaret Conger. Also, First letter of K.H. to A.O. Hume [and] View of the Chohan on the T.S
Peaks and Lamas
Peaks and Lamas is the account of two geographically related things: the climbing of Himalayan peaks and the Himalayan-Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. It was on a climbing expedition to the Ganges-Satlej watershed that Marco Pallis first began to…