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Free Download Salman H. Bashier, "Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World"
English | 2011 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0791462285, 0791462277 | PDF | 0,8 mb
This book explores how Ibn al-‘Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term "barzakh" indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn al-‘Arabi’s unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn al-‘Arabi’s development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man, and compares Ibn al-‘Arabi’s vision with Plato’s.

Free Download Katja Vehlow, "Abraham Ibn Daud’s Dorot ‘Olam (Generations of the Ages)"
English, Hebrew | 2013 | ISBN: 9004227903 | PDF | pages: 422 | 1.7 mb
Dorot ‘Olam (Generations of the Ages), written by Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo (c. 1110-1180) is one of the most influential historical works of medieval Hebrew literature. This edition shows how the work asserts the superiority of rabbinic Judaism and the central role of Iberia for the Jewish past, presence, and future.

Free Download Ibn Sina (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Adamson
English | October 27th, 2023 | ISBN: 0192846981 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 1.41 MB
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

Free Download Matthew S. Gordon, "Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868-884 "
English | ISBN: 1851688099 | 2021 | 176 pages | EPUB | 522 KB
Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-884) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years. An aggressive and innovative actor, he pursued an ambitious political agenda, including the introduction of dynastic rule over Egypt, that put him at odds with his imperial masters. Throughout, however, he retained close ties to the Abbasid house and at no point did he assert outright independence. In this volume, Matthew Gordon considers Ibn Tulun’s many achievements in office as well as the crises, including the betrayals of his eldest son and close clients, that marred his singular career.

Free Download Ibn ‘Arabi, Hassan Massoudy, "Perfect Harmony: Sufi Poetry of Ibn Arabi"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 1570629811 | PDF | pages: 68 | 35.3 mb
In each of these poems, taken from his long work The Interpreter of Desire, the Sufi master Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) evokes the transcendent experience of spiritual love-provoked by his encounter with a young Persian woman named Nizham, "harmony." Nizham becomes the emblem of the perfect expression of love, of beauty, of divinity. He discovers her and loves her in desert sand dunes, in the beneficent shades of rare groves, in the cool wind, in the dazzling sun-in all the movements of nature. Calligraphy (from the Greek for "beautiful writing") is an art where word and image meet, where the artist strives to give visual expression to the meaning of words in a way that transcends the text while remaining completely faithful to it. It is a discipline that has been invested with spiritual significance wherever it has arisen-and it has arisen throughout the world in every age, in virtually every language, culture, and religion. The Shambhala Calligraphy series is a collection of books devoted to contemporary expressions of this "art of the word," featuring contemporary calligraphers’ striking new interpretations of texts that have been traditional subjects for calligraphic interpretation. Whether in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Chinese pictographs, the characters, words, and sentences are brought to life anew here in a choreography of mind, hand, and heart by which letter and spirit fuse in a single stroke.

Free Download Martino Diez, "Al-Makin Girgis Ibn Al-Amid: Universal History; The Vulgate Recensionp; From Adam to the End of the Achaemenids"
English, العربية | ISBN: 9004549986 | 2023 | 1115 pages | PDF | 29 MB
"When the 13th-century Coptic official al-Makin Ibn al-‘Amid was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic history for his own consolation. His work, which drew from a vast array of sources, enjoyed enduring success among various readerships: Oriental Christians, in Arabic-speaking communities but also in Ethiopia; Mamluk historians, including Ibn Haldun and al-Maqrizi; and early modern Europe. A major instance of Christian-Muslim interaction in the pre-modern era, Ibn al-‘Amid’s chronography is still unpublished in its pre-Islamic part. This volume edits, analyzes, and translates the section from Adam to the Achaemenids"-

Free Download Ibn al-Haytham’s Completion of the Conics by J. P. Hogendijk
English | PDF | 1985 | 425 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 28.5 MB
Arabic science began to flourish about A.D. 800, nearly a century after the great conquests oflslam. Baghdad, the recently founded capital of the empire, became the cultural and intellectual centre of the world and attracted many scholars with different backgrounds. In the process of translation and transmission of older scientific texts, the Arabic language became the vehicle par excellence for scientific and philosophical thought. Thus began what is called the Arabic scientific tradition, l i.e. the activity of scholars of different nationalities, who came from various parts of the Muslim world (Persia, Arabia, Syria, etc.), who had different religions (mainly Muslim, but also Christian, Jewish, and others) and who mainly wrote in Arabic. Arabic science flourished with interruptions till ca. 1450. The transmission of Arabic texts or Arabic translations of Greek texts to (Western) Europe was a decisive factor in the development of Latin science and philosophy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which in turn paved the way for the Renaissance in Europe. However, Arabic science remained for the most part unknown in the West.

Free Download Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam (Suny Series in Islam) By Alexander D. Knysh
1998 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 0791439682 | PDF | 30 MB
Examines the fierce controversy over the legacy of Ibn ‘Arabi, the great Islamic mystic.

Free Download Khurram Murad, "The Desert Chief: Story of Thumama Ibn Uthal (Muslim Children’s Library)"
English | 2017 | ASIN: B074TZSS3M | EPUB | pages: 27 | 6.0 mb
This is the story of how a proud and powerful chieftain came to embrace Islam as a result of the humane treatment shown to him by the Prophet during his capture and imprisonment.

Free Download Farid Suleiman, "Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God "
English | ISBN: 900449989X | 2024 | 404 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God, Farid Suleiman offers a comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s views on God and His attributes, contextualizing his position within the century-old debates on this fraught theological issue.