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Baghdad during the time of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781463244385
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2022
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A study of the life and background of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, putative founder of the Qādiriyya order, investigating the sources for his life and attributed works. The book seeks to elucidate the ideas of al-Jīlānī, and to formulate a picture of the most prominent trends of pious and mystical thought in Baghdad during the twelfth century, providing a cultural and geographical angle to the study of Islamic mysticism and piety.
Growing Stories from India Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9780813187198
Pub Date: 17 May 2022
Series: Culture of the Land
Illustrations: 11 b&w halftones
Description:
This volume uses lessons from the Hindu culture to teach the world methods of sustainability. The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. This book uses the story of the deity Balaram and the Yamuna River as a foundation for discussing the global food crisis and illustrating the Hindu origins of agrarian thought, encouraging us to reconsider our relationship with the earth.
A Grieving Daughter's Heart Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781847309976
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
The death of a loved one is one of the most challenging events we have to face in our lifetime. This is an honest and raw recollection of the deep loss felt by a daughter who lost her father to cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic, isolated from her normal support networks and restricted in the ways she could celebrate the life of her father.
A Little Less than Angels Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781847309907
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Biblical symbolism has still a powerful appeal even today to change lives, to give reasons for living and dying and a solid hope for a future worthy of human beings. A Little Less than Angels can serve as an introduction and guide through the complexity of the biblical narrative as readers endeavour to re-enact in their own lives
Irish Catholic Directory 2021 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781847309723
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
This directory is a complete address and telephone guide to all Catholic parishes, convents and religious houses in the thirty-two counties of Ireland. It includes: full details of the Irish Episcopate and its various commissions; details of Catholic societies: addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and websites; names and addresses of chaplains in universities, hospitals and prisons; information on retreat and pastoral centres; and national church statistics.
Master, the One you Love is Ill Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781847309846
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Illness is one of the most challenging and disturbing experiences for any person. It can shake us to the very core and make us question everything we hold dear. Prayer that might have flowed so easily when we were well can, in times of illness, become like a mountain impossible to scale.
Self-Care Squad Journal Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781847309860
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
The purpose of this book is to raise awareness, to add value, give guidance and offer clarity to a young readership. With the rise of teenage mental health issues and experience this book is a very useful tool for teenagers and pre-teens. It offers balance and clarity to the reader’s lives through awareness, mindfulness, and self-care.
Catholic Education Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781847309839
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
Catholic Education: A Lifelong Journey is an exciting investigation of Catholic education in the parish, home and school, exploring the various ways Catholic education is present not only in Catholic schooling but throughout the whole of a Catholic person’s life. This extensive volume brings together leading and emerging scholars in Catholic education, from both Ireland and Britain, who offer important insights into the lifelong nature of the Catholic education journey, and seek to stimulate a deep sense of enquiry, exploration, reflection and action. The book comprises two parts.
Every Bush Aflame Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781847309488
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
One of the themes that echoes most frequently through Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark publication on the environment, is the central role of biodiversity in creation spirituality, because the 'diing of the rainbow of life's diversity' has a significance that goes way beyond our concern for its impact upon our human welfare. This is the result of a deepening awareness of the role of every living species in God’s unfolding plan. Every Bush Aflame is an extended reflection on this profoundly central theme.
The Exceptional Qu'ran Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781463207298
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2022
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This monograph examines the principle of dispensation in the Qur'an, which seems to be, if not unique, articulated in a new manner compared to previous religions (cf. Deut 12,32). The Qur'anic dispensations have never been systematically studied and this monograph aims to fill this vacuum in the fields of Qur'anic studies and the Study of Religion.
Violins and Hope Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781938086861
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Illustrations: 75 color photographs by the author
Description:
Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier (violin maker), began a project more than years ago that may be one of the most creative, effective, and magnificent approaches to education on the topic of the Holocaust. Trained by three of the most revered Cremona, Italian luthiers of the twentieth century, Weinstein’s vision was to restore violins that survived the concentration camps and the ghettos, even when their owners often did not. To date, more than seventy violins have been restored to their highest playable condition.
Irish Catholic Directory 2022 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 431
ISBN: 9781800970182
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2022
Imprint: Veritas Books
Description:
A complete address and telephone guide to all Catholic parishes, convents and religious houses in the thirty-two counties of Ireland.
From Jerusalem to Delhi, through Persia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9781463244064
Pub Date: 06 Jan 2022
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Why are Jews so attracted to India, to Hinduism, and to Buddhism in the United States as well as Israel? They travel there by the thousands, attracted by the exoticism of course, but, Adelman believes, also drawn by an atavistic connection, dating back to the great Persian empires that extended from the land of Israel to the Indian subcontinent, linking the religions, myths, legends, literature, customs, even languages over the centuries. Influenced by her own profoundly mystical experiences, Adelman provides the history, explains the religions, shows the common origins, and gives astonishing examples of parallel symbolism.
Journey of the Mind Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781910221358
Pub Date: 02 Dec 2021
Illustrations: 40
Description:
Journey of the Mind is the first publication from Without Shape Without Form (WSWF), an arts organisation and arts space established in 2017 by volunteers from the Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara (GMGG) in Slough, England. WSWF is the UK’s first, and currently only, permanent Sikh art gallery. The publication has been created as an illustrated introduction to the history, stories and teachings of Sikhism.
Masorah 1 Kings Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781463206031
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2021
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies
Description:
This work represents the first time that a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex, that of the Former Prophets, is being published with an English translation and commentary. The translation and commentary is preceded by an Introduction which deals with topics such as description of the importance of the Leningrad Codex, the Masorah and its development, the Masorah of the Leningrad Codex, and the relation of the Leningrad’s Masorah to the accepted text of the Hebrew Bible. Every masoretic note in the Leningrad Codex that accompanies the text of the six books of the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel,1 Kings, and 2 Kings) is transcribed, translated and annotated Every occurrence of each lemma is provided with its biblical references, and an indication is given as to where else in the ms.
Emerging Horizons. 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 159
ISBN: 9781463243654
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2021
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The chapters in Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash pertain to an intriguing midrash that appears in a Masoretic context, the Qur’anic narrative of the red cow, midrashic narratives that rabbinise enemies of Israel, the death of Moses, emotions in rabbinic literature, and yelammedenu units in midrashic works.