Authors:Elton L. Daniel, Ali Akbar Mahdi,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: culture, customs, east, iran, middle
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313320535
ISBN-13: 9780313320538

Iran is often a hotspot in the news, and the Muslim state is usually negatively portrayed in the West. Culture and Customs of Iran rejects facile stereotyping and presents the rich, age-old Persian culture that struggles with pressures of the modern world. This is the first volume in English to reveal the important sociocultural facets of Iran today for a general audience in an objective fashion. Authoritative, substantive narrative chapters cover the gamut of topics, from religion and religious thought to Iranian cuisine and festivals.

Author: Muhsin S. Mahdi
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: philosophy, political, islamic, foundation, alfarabi
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0226501868
ISBN-13: 9780226501864

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi—widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought—distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy. Mahdi, who also brought to light writings of Alfarabi that had long been presumed lost or were not even known, presents this great thinker as his contemporaries would have seen him: as a philosopher who sought to lay the foundations for a new understanding of revealed religion and its relation to the tradition of political philosophy.Beginning wit

Author: Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1990-09-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393313670
ISBN-13: 9780393313673

This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi’s reconstruction of the original Nights. The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.

Author: Mahdi Alosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: usage, contemporary, guide, arabic, using
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2005-08-08
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521648327
ISBN-13: 9780521648325

This guide to Arabic usage for intermediate-level students wishing to extend their knowledge of the language focuses on Modern Standard Arabic. A vocabulary chapter shows which words are current and appropriate to different registers, while a grammar chapter offers an overview of Arabic grammar with modern-day examples. A chapter on varieties of Arabic describes linguistic variation in the Arab world. This volume will be an essential reference for students seeking to improve their fluency and confidence in Arabic.

Author: Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: deluxe, new, nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-05-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0393331660
ISBN-13: 9780393331660

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy’s rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left

Author: Sarah Roche-Mahdi
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Keywords: romance, french, century, thirteenth, silence
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0870135430
ISBN-13: 9780870135439

A facing-page translation. This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women’s studies. The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the thirteenth century, tells of a girl raised as a boy, equally accomplished as a minstrel and knight, whose final task, the capture of Merlin, leads to her unmasking.Glossary, Bibliography, Proper Name list, Notes. B/W Frontispiece illustration.

Authors:Louise Carus Mahdi, Nancy G. Christopher, Michael Me
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Keywords: passage, rites, contemporary, quest, crossroads
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0812691903
ISBN-13: 9780812691900

Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty cutting-edge writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood."In no uncertain terms, Crossroads opens our eyes to our responsibility to the adolescents who are now growing up without sacred rituals and hence without knowledge of spiritual roots in their culture. Many of the writers have first-hand experience and first-rate ideas of h