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Page : 880 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1979
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Middle East
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1977
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Release : 1979
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Karl Baier
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3737008620
This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.
Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195104722
Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions, cultures, and civilizations, including not only different forms of Christianity and Judaism inside and outside the Middle East, Zoroastrianism and Manicheism, Hinduism and even Buddhism, but also tribal religions in West and East Africa, in South Russia and in Central Asia, including Tibet. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists, travelers and historians, and men of letters and of culture.
Author : J. Christoph Bürgel
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2011
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Includes thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan.
Author : M. A. Saleem Khan
Publisher : Iacademic Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
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Author : Mario Kozah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004305548
In The Birth of Indology as an Islamic Science Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. ca. 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India. Kozah concludes that a process of Islamisation is employed through a meticulous systematization of Hindu beliefs into one “Indian religion”, preceding by almost a millennium the earliest definitions of Hinduism by nineteenth-century European Orientalists. This formulation of Hinduism draws on Bīrūnī’s interpretation of Yoga psychology articulated in the Kitāb Bātanjal, his Arabic translation of the Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali. Bīrūnī’s Islamic reading of Hinduism relies on certain common denominators that he identifies as being of fundamental importance. In the case of Hinduism he identifies metempsychosis as its unifying banner.
