Suchergebnisse

This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration

Examines the role of God in medieval Islamic philosophy and theology in a new and exciting way. Renouncing the traditional chronological method of considering Islamic philosophy, Netton uses modern literary modes of criticism derived from structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics

Arabia felix : Israelites, Jews and Christians /J.R. Porter --The desert and the sown in eastern Arabian history /Hugh Kennedy --Arabia and the pilgrim paradigm of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa : a Braudelian approach /Ian Richard Netton --Some Western views of the Arab Gulf /Paul Auchterlonie --Hispano-Arabic historiography : the legacy of J.A. Conde /Richard Hitchcock --Wahhabite polity /Aziz al-Azmeh --Saudi Arabia : political and social evolution /Keith McLachlan --Hashemite Iraq and Pahlavī Iran /Anthony Parsons --One Yemen or Two? /Michael Adams --Oman : change or continuity? /B.R. Pridham --Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates : political and social evolution /Glen Balfour-Paul --Bahrain in transition /Anthony Parsons --Human resources in the Gulf /Roger Webster --Language development in the Gulf : lexical interference of English in the Gulf dialects /J.R. Smart --Cities of salt : a literary view of the theme of oil and change in the Gulf /Rasheed El-Enany --Oil : currrent trends and future prospects /Walid Khadduri --Women and the law in the United Arab Emirates /Doreen Hinchcliffe.