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The Dome of the Rock
The Dome of the Rock was built in 692 C.E. under the patronage of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It enshrines the Sacred Rock, literally the irregular highest tip of Mount Moriah, one of the several ridges around which the city of…
Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's “Great Learning of the Pure and Real” and Liu Chih's “Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm”
"Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and…
The mythological astronomy of the ancients demonstrated by restoring to their fables & symbols their original meanings
Reprint of the 1822-23 ed.
A Blake Dictionary: the ideas and symbols of William Blake
Assembles, synthesizes, and interprets the clues to Blake's meaning.
