Authors:Hamid Dabashi, Andrew Davison, Himadeep Muppidi,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: reader, dabashi, hamid, home, world
Number of Pages: 331
Published: 2010-10-20
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1412813441
ISBN-13: 9781412813440
As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs, explaining, interpreting, and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings. As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and scholars of our time, Dabashis interests and writings span subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to Iranian art and Persian literature, from Sufism an
Authors:Saeed Hamid-Khani, Saeed Hamid Khani,
Publisher: J.C.B. Mohr
Keywords: untersuchungen, wissenschaftliche, zum, neuen, reihe, testament, gospel, fourth, christ, concealment, theological, inquiryinto, language, elusive, revelation
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 1999-08-10
List price: $147.50
ISBN-10: 3161471385
ISBN-13: 9783161471384
Author: Hamid G. Kia
Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co
Keywords: compounds, molding, sheet
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 1993-01
List price: $87.75
ISBN-10: 3446162135
ISBN-13: 9783446162136
Author: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Publisher: WLC
Keywords: happiness, alchemy
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2009-07-19
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1557427143
ISBN-13: 9781557427144
God has sent on earth prophets to teach men the prescription of happiness. This alchemy may be briefly described as turning away from the world to God, and its constituents are the knowledge of self., the knowledge of God, the knowledge of this world as it really is, and the knowledge of the next world as it really is.
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, smoke, moth
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-02-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312273231
ISBN-13: 9780312273231
Through a brilliant array of voices and perspectives, debut author Mohsin Hamid tells the story of one love-struck Daru Shezad, who when fired from his banking job, instantly removes himself from the ranks of Pakistan’s cell-phone-toting elite and plunges into a life of drugs and crime.But when a heist goes awry, Daru finds himself on trial for a murder he may not have committed. His uncertain fate mirrors that of Pakistan itself, animated by nuclear weapons and sapped by corruption.AUTHORBIO: Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton University and Harvard Law Sch
Author: Suhaib Hamid Ghazi
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: ramadan
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1996-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823412547
ISBN-13: 9780823412549
Every year, Muslims all over the world celebrate the coming of Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar. It was during that month, 14 centuries ago, that Allah first began revealing the holy book of Islam, the Quran, to Muhammed. Ghazi’s clear and informative description of one boy’s celebration of Ramadan is skillfully brought to life by Omar Rayyan’s warm and joyful illustration.
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Harvest Books
Keywords: fundamentalist, reluctant
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156034026
ISBN-13: 9780156034029
A NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of sep
