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The Excellent Powder

Autor: Donald Roberts , Richard Tren , Roger Bate , Jennifer Zambone

Número de Páginas: 454

It's the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from preventable, insect-borne diseases. Yet despite decades of use and thousands of studies on its effects, DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical. Orchestrated, well-financed, earnest, but myth-based campaigns forced most countries to ban DDT without scientific justifica­tion. These campaigns created a climate of irrational fear and ignorant prejudice around DDT and have condemned millions of the world's most vulnerable people to death. The Excellent Powder dispels these myths and sets the record straight. It reviews the fascinating history of this chemical that changed the world. It analyzes the scientific evidence and explains how and why DDT safely protects millions from the threat of malaria and other diseases. Finally, it documents how many activists choose to ignore this evidence, and how their ignorant prejudices continues to under­mine disease control programs. "DDT has been the main agent in eradicating malaria ... and of having saved at least 2 billion people in the world without causing the loss of a single life by poisoning from DDT alone." World Health...

A Grammar of Lezgian

Autor: Martin Haspelmath

Número de Páginas: 589

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

Farid Ad-Din ʻAttār's Memorial of God's Friends

Autor: Farid Al-din Attar

Número de Páginas: 468

Presents the lives and sayings of some of the most renowned figures in the Islamic Sufi tradition, translated into a contemporary American English from the Persian of the poet Farid al-Din 'Att'r.

Israel Telephone Directory

Número de Páginas: 804

Case

Autor: Mark Baker

Número de Páginas: 355

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that case can be assigned to noun phrases by function words under agreement, the theory also develops in detail a second mode of case assignment: so-called dependent case. Suitable for academic researchers and students, the book employs formal-generative concepts yet remains clear and accessible for a general linguistics readership.

Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis

Autor: N. Hanif

Número de Páginas: 424

In the Path of Allah

Autor: John Ralph Willis

Número de Páginas: 278

A West African Sufi and religious reformer (c.1794-1864), struggled to reconcile the temporal achievements of his jihad with his mystical calling. The fame of Shaykh Omar rested on his reputation as a worker of miracles, and the success of jihad in his path to Allah.

Dictionnaire du soufisme

Autor: Nadim Ghodbane

Número de Páginas: 299

La femme et l’homme modernes sont confrontés à une situation nouvelle dans l’histoire de l’humanité : la perte des repères, ce que Durkheim nommait l’anomie. Les règles sociales guidant leurs conduites et leurs aspirations ont perdu de leur pouvoir et, minées par les changements sociaux, elles doivent céder la place à d’autres. En cette période de distension des liens sociaux, de repli sur soi, le soufisme peut apporter des réponses aux questions existentielles que certains peuvent se poser. Ce vide idéologique et ce brouillage des repères ouvrent la porte aux idéologies simplistes populistes et extrémistes de toutes sortes, voire à des dérives sectaires et autres gourous autoproclamés. La sagesse soufie est un remède adéquat aux maux de cette période trouble. Ce livre participe à la dissipation du brouillard intellectuel et culturel qui caractérise notre temps, en apportant de façon claire et précise des explications simples et profondes, en mettant en pleine lumière la richesse de ce patrimoine spirituel et en rendant hommage à toutes ces femmes et à tous ces hommes qui portaient la flamme depuis des siècles et qui ont élevé la réflexion...

Explorations

Número de Páginas: 718

Approaches to the Remediation of Inorganic Pollutants

Autor: Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Número de Páginas: 413

In this comprehensive book, plant biologists and environmental scientists present the latest information on different approaches to the remediation of inorganic pollutants. Highlighting remediation techniques for a broad range of pollutants, the book offers a timely compilation to help readers understand injury and tolerance mechanisms, and the subsequent improvements that can be achieved by plant-based remediation. Gathering contributions by respected experts in the field, the book represents a valuable asset for students and researchers, particularly plant physiologists, environmental scientists, biotechnologists, botanists, soil chemists and agronomists.

The Qur'an

Autor: Oliver Leaman

Número de Páginas: 810

A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Qur'an is the source of inspiration for one of the world's major religions, followed today by over a billion people. It plays a central role in Islam and ever since it appeared fourteen hundred years ago has been the subject of intense debate. Some of this has been carried out by Muslims and some by those hostile or indifferent to Islam, producing a very wide range of views. Authored by forty-three international experts, the objective of The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia is to present this diversity of thought, approach and school without priority, in order to give a strong appreciation of the range of response that the text has provoked throughout its history and providing students and researchers with a powerful one-volume resource covering all aspects of the text and its reception. Islam and the Qur'an are much in the news today and there is a public debate going on in which things are said about the Qur'an without much knowledge or understanding of the book. Every effort has been made to help the reader use the Encyclopedia as an investigative tool in Quranic studies. The volume assumes no previous knowledge of the Qur'an, Islam or Arabic. ...

Sufi Rituals and Practices

Autor: Kashshaf Ghani

Número de Páginas: 305

This book explores the institution of Sufism, the most dynamic face of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, as it sets out to study the mystical rituals and devotional practices that characterize Sufism's beliefs and traditions.

The Criminal Law Journal

Número de Páginas: 874

Showing the Seditious Character of the Indian National Congress and the Opinions Held by Eminent Natives of India who are Opposed to the Movement

Autor: United Indian Patriotic Association

Número de Páginas: 182

Muslim Saints and Mystics

Autor: Farid Al-din Attar

Número de Páginas: 302

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar’s work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.

La genèse du cinéma d'auteur iranien

Autor: Farid Esmaeelpour

Número de Páginas: 176

Cet ouvrage constitue une analyse approfondie d'une des figures majeures du cinéma iranien contemporain, celle d'Ebrahim Golestan, à la fois traducteur de Shakespeare, de Georges Bernard Shaw, de William Faulkner et pionnier de ce que l'on pourrait qualifier de cinéma d'auteur. Selon le critique Jonathan Rosenbaum, il n'est pas possible de bien comprendre le nouveau cinéma iranien, porté notamment par Abbas Kiarostami et Jafar Panahi, sans se référer à Ebrahim Golestan. L'ouvrage permet de (re)découvrir ses films cachés et/ou perdus de l'histoire du cinéma iranien.

Islamic Spirituality

Autor: Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Número de Páginas: 481

Originally published 1987. The first part of the volume is concerned with "The Roots of the Islamic Tradition and Spirituality". These are seen to include the Qu’ran as the central theophany of Islam, the Prophet who received the word of God and made it known to mankind and the rites of Islam. The second part examines the divisions of the Islamic community with their distinctive pieties and emphases: Sunnism and Shi’ism and female spirituality. Part III is devoted to Sufism – its nature and origin, its early development, its various spiritual practices and its science of the soul.

The Making of Medieval Panjab

Autor: Surinder Singh

Número de Páginas: 487

This book seeks to reconstruct the past of undivided Panjab during five medieval centuries. It opens with a narrative of the efforts of Turkish warlords to achieve control in the face of tribal resistance, internal dissensions and external invasions. It examines the linkages of the ruling class with Zamindars and Sufis, paving the way for canal irrigation and agrarian expansion, thus strengthening the roots of the state in the region. While focusing on the post-Timur phase, it tries to make sense of the new ways of acquiring political power. This work uncovers the perpetual attempts of Zamindars to achieve local dominance, particularly in the context of declining presence of the state in the countryside. In this ambitious enterprise, they resorted to the support of their clans, adherence to hallowed customs and recurrent use of violence, all applied through a system of collective and participatory decision-making. The volume traces the growth of Sufi lineages built on training disciples, writing books, composing poetry and claiming miraculous powers. Besides delving into the relations of the Sufis with the state and different sections of the society, it offers an account of the...

All India Reporter

Número de Páginas: 536

Vols. 1- 1914- issued in separate parts, called sections, e.g. Journal section, Federal Court section, Privy Council section, Allahabad section, Bombay section, etc.

Refashioning Iran

Autor: M. Tavakoli-targhi

Número de Páginas: 233

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

The Literature of Islam

Autor: Paula Youngman Skreslet , Rebecca Skreslet

Número de Páginas: 264

This book introduces the literature of Islam as it is presented in English translation. For scholars in other fields who need to understand the vast and complex literary heritage of this erudite and vigorous faith community (but are unable to devote years of their lives to achieving a reading proficiency in classical Arabic), for faculty members called upon to teach introductory or survey courses outside their own disciplines, and for graduate students in theology, medieval studies, world religions, or related fields who need access to these primary sources in English translation, The Literature of Islam is a welcome resource. Even lay readers who are interested in understanding the modern Arab or Islamic world may grasp something of the currents of thought and belief through the centuries that produced these important works, which continue to exert a powerful influence upon Muslims today. The primary literatures of Islam are normally classified into several areas of study: the canonical literature, the interpretation of scripture and tradition, law, theology, philosophy, history, and mysticism. Entries here are organized into these areas of study and represent the most...

Directory of Soviet Officials

Número de Páginas: 436

Plant Ecophysiology and Adaptation under Climate Change: Mechanisms and Perspectives II

Autor: Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Número de Páginas: 866

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology. With a particular focus on adaptation to a changing environment, it discusses ecophysiology and adaptive mechanisms of plants under climate change. Over the centuries, the incidence of various abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, atmospheric pollution, metal toxicity due to climate change have regularly affected plants and, and some estimates suggest that environmental stresses may reduce the crop yield by up to 70%. This in turn adversely affects the food security. As sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to various environmental adversities. As such, both plant physiology and plant ecophysiology begin with the study of responses to the environment. Provides essential insights, this book can be used for courses such as Plant Physiology, Environmental Science, Crop Production and Agricultural Botany. Volume 2 provides up-to-date information on the impact of climate change on plants, the general consequences and plant responses to various environmental stresses.

Lovers of God

Autor: Raziuddin Aquil

Número de Páginas: 251

This book addresses some of the fiercely contested issues about religion and politics in medieval India, especially with regard to the crucial presence of Sufis who styled themselves as friends and lovers of God. Enjoying widespread veneration even in situations of hostility with regard to Islam and Muslims in general, Sufis are central to an understanding of religious interactions and community relations historically. The chapters included in the book can be read as stand-alone pieces focussing on some of the most fascinating as well as contentious themes in medieval Indian history – subjects and issues which are otherwise either left untouched by historians because of their sensitive nature from the point of view of modern day secularism or abused by interested parties in their communal propaganda. When read as a monograph, the volume as a whole attempts to combat all kinds of intellectual absurdities, which mar our understating of the place of Islam in medieval Indian history, especially the significant presence of Sufis who were devoted to the love of God and service to humanity. Historiographically important issues which are also topical in these times of interdependence of ...

THE INDIAN LISTENER

Autor: All India Radio,bombay

Número de Páginas: 48

The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artistS. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 22-02-1937 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. II, No.5. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 166-191 Document ID: INL -1936-37 (D-D) Vol -I (05)

Emir Abd El-Kader

Autor: Ahmed Bouyerdene

Número de Páginas: 274

This extraordinary biography of the Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader (1807/8-1883), shows his dazzling spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities. The New York Times called the Emir "one of the few great men of the century," while Abraham Lincoln and Pope Pius IX both commended the Emir for rescuing 15,000 Christians while in exile in Damascus. In 1846, the town of Elkader, Iowa was named in his honor.

The Cambridge History of Egypt

Autor: M. W. Daly , Carl F. Petry

Número de Páginas: 682

A comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history for student and scholarly reference.

Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly

Número de Páginas: 938

Includes special sessions.

A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law

Autor: Olaf Köndgen

Número de Páginas: 467

In A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law Olaf Köndgen offers the most extensive bibliography on Islamic criminal law ever compiled. Drawing on a multitude of sources online and offline A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law covers, in its thematic section, not only the classical crime categories of ḥudūd, qiṣāṣ and taʿzīr but also a large number of newly emerging and related fields. In a second section dedicated to countries and eras, Köndgen comprehensively covers the historical and modern application of Islamic criminal law in all its forms. Unlocking the richness of this sub-field of Islamic law with the help of two detailed indices, this innovative reference work is highly relevant for all those researching Islamic law in general and the application of Islamic criminal law over time in particular. See also A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law, Supplement.

Ethiopian Criminal Procedure

Autor: Stanley Z. Fisher

Número de Páginas: 570

THE INDIAN LISTENER

Autor: All India Radio (air),new Delhi

Número de Páginas: 79

The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-07-1939 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 79 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. IV, No. 14. Document ID: INL-1939 (J-D) Vol- II (02)

Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and Other Collections in the Netherlands

Autor: P Voorhoeve

Número de Páginas: 775

Knowledge God Class Sufism

Número de Páginas: 468

This volume, the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series, brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts, most translated here for the first time, culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality, on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents excerpts on knowledge from the works of nine major Muslim teachers, most translated from Arabic, but also including important texts from Persian originals. The Introduction offers a survey of the development of Sufi modes of knowing through the thirteenth century in their broader context, and then focuses on the manuals or compendia of Sufi spirituality treated here. Historical notes provide brief identifications of many of the individual sources and personalities mentioned throughout the treatises. +

Le soufi marocain Aḥmad ibn ʻAjība (1746-1809) et son Miʻrāj

Autor: Jean-louis Michon

Número de Páginas: 328

Mystic Poets of Pakistan

Número de Páginas: 540

Biographical sketches of mystic poets from Pakistan; includes specimen from their works.

Windows on the House of Islam

Autor: John Renard

Número de Páginas: 460

This volume and its companion, John Renard's 1996 book, SEVEN DOORS TO ISLAM, together integrate a wide range of Islamic literary and visual forms, offering a superb introduction to the primary religious sources, as well as a general understanding, of Islamic spirituality and culture. 66 illustrations. 1 map.

Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, littérature et philosophie

Autor: Encyclopaedia Universalis,

Número de Páginas: 1907

Les hommes, les idées, les œuvres : tel est le fil conducteur qui a guidé la réalisation de ce Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, littérature et philosophie. Comme les autres titres de la série, il emprunte son contenu à l’Encyclopaedia Universalis et partage avec sa source le soin apporté au choix des auteurs et à la sélection des sujets traités. L’aire géographique couverte par les quelque 400 articles qui le composent ne se limite pas à l’Occident : le Proche et le Moyen-Orient y sont aussi largement présents. Ainsi, les pensées nées en islam (Averroès) ou au sein du judaïsme (Maimonide) y côtoient celles qui sont issues de la chrétienté latine (Thomas d’Aquin) ou grecque (Grégoire Palamas). Un millénaire d’intense activité intellectuelle ne se réduit pas à ces quelques grands noms, et le dictionnaire fait une large place aux dizaines d’auteurs (d’Abélard à Wyclif) dont l’œuvre constitue la trame de la philosophie médiévale, souvent étroitement liée à la théologie. Au cours du Moyen Âge, la littérature aussi prend son autonomie. Écrivains et poètes (Dante, Froissart, Pétrarque, Villon...), genres littéraires (chanson de geste,...

Instructors Manual

Autor: Robert Ellwood

Número de Páginas: 124

Plant Ecophysiology and Adaptation under Climate Change: Mechanisms and Perspectives I

Autor: Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Número de Páginas: 865

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology. With a particular focus on adaptation to a changing environment, it discusses ecophysiology and adaptive mechanisms of plants under climate change. Over the centuries, the incidence of various abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, atmospheric pollution, metal toxicity due to climate change have regularly affected plants and, and some estimates suggest that environmental stresses may reduce the crop yield by up to 70%. This in turn adversely affects the food security. As sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to various environmental adversities. As such, both plant physiology and plant ecophysiology begin with the study of responses to the environment. Provides essential insights, this book can be used for courses such as Plant Physiology, Environmental Science, Crop Production and Agricultural Botany. Volume 1 provides up-to-date information on the impact of climate change on plants, the general consequences and plant responses to various environmental stresses.

Trade Guide

Número de Páginas: 1152

Guide and information to all commercial and industrial enterprises of the Chittagong City.