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    <![CDATA[Painting in Islam, a Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture]]>
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    <![CDATA[This book indicates the place of painting in the culture of the Islamic word, both in relation to those theological circles which condemned the practice of it, and to those persons who, disregarding the prohibitions of religion, consulted their own tastes in encouraging it. Contains over 60 illustrations.]]>
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    <![CDATA[E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936]]>
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    <![CDATA[The increasing interest in Islam and Islamic culture during the  last  century and the early part of this century created a demand for  an  encyclopaedic work on Islam.  For the first time in history a truly  international team of scholars began  working on one single project.  This resulted in The Encyclopaedia of  Islam, published in three  editions in English, German and French. The  Encyclopaedia of Islam  remains to this day the only complete  encyclopaedic work on Islam.   Due to its tremendous success these editions soon went out of print and   became valuable collectors' items. Some years later, the publisher  decided to  start a New Edition, which is now well over halfway to  completion. In view of  the broad scope of the New Edition and the  years needed to complete it, E.J.  Brill's First Edition  is now  available in paperback to meet the immediate  needs of scholars,  students of Islam, librarians, and even government  institutions, in  fact, anyone interested in Islam and its rich culture.  The paperback  First Edition is intended to fill a gap at a very low price.  The First  Edition is a true mine of information, much of which is not yet   available in the New Edition. The value of the First Edition (as well  as the  New Edition) is recognized worldwide and remains undisputed. In  more than  9,000 alphabetically arranged articles, varying in length  from 50 to 50,000  words, the whole range of Islamic culture, from  religion and literature to the  lives of famous Muslims, is treated by  some of the world's most famous  scholars of the twentieth century.   The First Encyclopaedia of Islam was originally published between 1913  and  1936 as The Encyclopaedia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography,   Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples in four volumes  and one  supplement volume.]]>
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    <![CDATA[THE ISLAMIC FAITH]]>
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    <![CDATA[THE ISLAMIC FAITH - 1928 - CONTENTS - THE CREED OF ISLAM - THE faith of Islam is professed by about 239 millions of persons, distribute mainly throughout the continents of Asia and Africa, but found also in smaller groups in many other parts of the world. Their creed is expressed in the brief sentence There is no god save God Muhammad is the Apostle of God. Around these two central dogmas of the Unity of God and the prophetic mission of Muhammad, the whole of Muslim theology has been built up, and whatever may have been the variations in the exposition of religious doctrine and the diversities of ecclesiastical organization, all the sects and they have been many a ree in the acceptance of these fundamental articles o f the faith and repeat the creed in the same words. It is whispered in the ear of the new-born babe it is one of the first sentences the growing child is taught to utter on all possible occasions, the pious Muslim loves to repeat it, and these should be the last words on the lips of the dying. The two parts of which this creed are made up, nowhere occur together in the Qurin, but are taken from separate chapters-viz., xlvii., 21, and xlviii., 29. The im lications of the first clause are that God is One a n i Unique in His essence the qualities of the divine nature are, indeed, enumerated at great len th in the QurLn, but throughout the whole of Muskn theological literature the heresy most dreaded is at of Shirk, or giving to God a partner, and the exposition of the Being of God is set forth in such a way as always to emphasize His absolute Unity. A large part of the dogmatic theology of the Muslim world is taken up with the problem of the relation between the essence of Gods nature and His qualities, such as His power, knowledge, and goodness, etc., as will be shown later on. The second article of this creed implies a doctrine of Gods relation to His creation, according to which God, having first instructed Adam in divine truth and explained to him his duties, in succeeding ages, as the knowledge of this truth became obscured, and men lapsed into unbelief, sent a succession of prophets-Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc.-to proclaim anew the primitive revelation. This series of prophets comprises many of the familiar names of the Old Testament, and leads through St. John the Baptist and Jesus to Muhammad, the seal of the rophets, after whom no further inspired teacher is he f d to be needed. According to this theory of Gods revelation to men through prophets, Muhammad was not the founder of any new religion, and he constantly emphasized the fact that he was an apostle of no new doctrine Quran, xlvi., 8, and described his own teaching as being the religion of Abraham. It is, therefore, misleading to call the Muslim faith Muhammadanism, as though the adherents of it considered Muhammad to be the founder of it, and the name which the Muhammadan world gives to its own faith is Islam-that is, resignation to the will of God. Thus, by theory, there is nothing new in Muhammads teaching, and in the Quran he represents himself as bidden by God to ay We believe in God and in what hath been sent down to us and what hath been sent down to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and in what was given to Moses and to Jesus and to the rophets from their Lord...]]>
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    <![CDATA[Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith]]>
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    <![CDATA[This is a black and white reproduction of the original edition including imperfections. These books have been a source of inspiration, joy and enlightenment to millions through the ages. Now they can be yours.]]>
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