Author: Jalal Shatah and Michael Struwe
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
Keywords: lecture, notes, courant, equations, wave, geometric
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2000-10-24
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821827499
ISBN-13: 9780821827499

This volume contains notes of the lectures given at the Courant Institute and a DMV-Seminar at Oberwolfach. The focus is on the recent work of the authors on semilinear wave equations with critical Sobolev exponents and on wave maps in two space dimensions. Background material and references have been added to make the notes self-contained. The book is suitable for use in a graduate-level course on the topic.

Authors:Lena Struwe, Victor A. Albert,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, natural, systematics, gentianaceae
Number of Pages: 662
Published: 2002-06-03
List price: $220.00
ISBN-10: 0521809991
ISBN-13: 9780521809993

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the family, Gentianaceae, covering phylogeny, classification, biogeography, palynology, phytochemistry, and morphology, and also presents the first classification of the entire family to be published for over 100 years, generated using modern molecular- and morphology-based phylogenetic data. The volume places the Gentianaceae in context with its relatives in the order Gentianales and subclass Asteridae; presents an updated, phylogenetic classification of tribes, subtribes, and genera; investigates the corroborative value of morphological features

Author: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, classics, oxford, one, book, masnavi
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-12-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0192804383
ISBN-13: 9780192804389

Rumi’s Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey his message of divine love and unity he threaded together entertaining stories and penetrating homilies. Drawing from folk tales as well as sacred history, Rumi’s poem is often funny as well as spiritually profound. Jawid Mojaddedi’s sparkling new verse translation of Book

Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, south, asian, studies, pakistan, demand, spokesman, jinnah, muslim, league, sole
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1994-05-27
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521458501
ISBN-13: 9780521458504

In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

Author: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, book, masnavi
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0199549915
ISBN-13: 9780199549917

The most influential Sufi poem ever written, the six books of the Masnavi are often called "the Qur’an in Persian". Book Two is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses on the struggle against the self, and how to choose the right companions in order to progress along the mystical path. By interweaving amusing stories and profound homilies, Rumi instructs his readers in a style that still speaks directly to them. Here, Jawid Mojaddedi has translated the text into accessible rhyming couplets, as he did for Oxford’s award-winni

Author: Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: rumi, illuminated
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-10-13
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0767900022
ISBN-13: 9780767900027

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish. Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi’s life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet. The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world’s best-loved ecstatic poetry.Rumi’s pa

Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: asia, south, jihad, allah, partisans
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-03-31
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0674028015
ISBN-13: 9780674028012

The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith and ethics, and yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosophical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Ayesha Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history. Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the i