Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. The book also includes excerpts from original English translations of speeches by men and women who lived close to Muhammad, heard him speak, witnessed his actions, witnessed the way he interacted with situations and witnessed events he encountered throughout various stages of his life. It is not contradictory to other accounts but rather offers new insights and new details. It is based primarily on old Arab sources that go back to the 8th century, of which some passages are translated for the first time. The book provides a new account of the sira or the life of Muhammad, with details that had not been elaborated in other accounts. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is an award-winning 1983 biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Martin Lings.
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. On Bartleby’s actions, the narrator states, Bartleby never says what his principles are, but his “passive resistance” causes problems with the narrator, a man who continually threatens to reprimand Bartleby and the other employees but never does. Truthfully, we never really know for sure what drives Bartleby to continue to tell his employer, “I would prefer not to.” However, I would argue, as some have done, that we should read Melville’s story, as we do Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, as a commentary on transcendentalism and specifically on Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience.Įmerson and Thoreau argue that resistance to authority should be carried out based on one’s own principles, and Bartleby appears to base his continuous refusal to do his job because of his principles. 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The selected correspondence of Bernard Shaw relating to the play Pygmalion contains 272 letters and entries, written between 18, and edited by a leading contemporary Shavian Vitaly Baziyan. Whenever possible he retreats for a meditation trek in the Himalayas. Abhishek currently lives between his studios in Brooklyn, New York and Mumbai. Spanning comic books, art direction, and VR films, some of his notable works are Shekhar Kapurs Ramayana 3392 A.D., India Authentic Series and a VR film for Deepak Chopra. His critically acclaimed Krishna - A Journey Within is the first graphic novel by a writer/artist of Indian origin to be published in the American comic book history. Hes known for his social impact projects where he blends stories of nature, myths and social themes with live artworks, like Shiva in Varanasi, Vrikshdootam Message from the Trees, Goddess Exhibition, Budapest and JLF, Jaipur. Each story is accompanied by a painting by Abhishek Singh. Abhishek Singh's work is acclaimed around the world for its unique style and storytelling with compelling illustrations and enthralling text, Singh takes you into the fantastical worlds of ancient Indian mythology, deciphering its many symbolic humanistic and ecological layers.Ībhishek Singh's work is acclaimed around the world for its unique style and storytelling and has been exhibited in prestigious places like LACMA, Asia Society, Vermont Museum, and Burning Man. Wonder House Books celebrates the launch of Abhishek Singh’s Namaha-Stories From the Land of God and Goddesses, a collection of short stories inspired by the ancient wisdom literature of India. Namaha, stories from the land of Gods and Godesses, is a collection of short stories inspired by ancient wisdom literature of India. Well-known writer Jeremy Gadd, is an Australian author and poet who has contributed dozens of articles and short stories, and hundreds of poems to literary magazines and periodicals all over the world. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Whether sharing Yeats' admiration for an apricot-hued sunset as it soars across an aurora borealis-like sky, watching nectar-eating parrots getting tipsy on the fermenting blossoms of paper bark trees or learning how to bake damper over hot coals, odds are you have never enjoyed a journey as unique as this, following one of life’s nicest losers as he becomes a winner. Set during tropical Australia's oppressively humid build-up to the annual monsoon-the Suicide Season-when tempers are short, children are constantly irritable, and adults are tight-lipped, Yeats stumbles across an illegal wildlife poaching operation, falls in love with an attractive female mechanic, and becomes an unwitting trespasser on Aboriginal land. When demoralised Warren Yeats abandons his failing business, his ex-wife and his city lifestyle to embark on a road trip with more twists and turns than Sydney’s streets, he has no idea how gruelling the outback can be. My first task in writing “Never” was to consider what the flashpoint leading to World War Three might be. I see four stages on the path to war: the spark, the escalation, the existential threat, and the commitment. And that realization led me to ask: Could it happen again? Yet each of the emperors and prime ministers took small, quite rational steps that led to the worst war the human race had ever known. I studied the path that led to the First World War, while I was writing “Fall of Giants”, and what struck me was the fact that no national leader actually wanted a European war. “Never” takes place in the present, but it was inspired by events that happened more than a hundred years ago. Así pues, aquí están las palabras de Follett, uno de los autores más leídos en Occidente. Nunca, la nueva novela de Ken Follett, llegó a la librería y él nos envió este texto con una indicación precisa: publicarlo sin ningún cambio. Las huellas de ese personaje se le quedaron marcadas y sus libros, que oscilan entre la historia y el thriller, se convirtieron en éxitos indudables. La amé y leí todos los libros de Ian Fleming”. “Me deslumbró -dijo en una entrevista con la BBC. Cuando tenía doce años, Ken Follett descubrió una de las novelas de la saga de James Bond: Vive y deja morir. Soon, however, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point―and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life.Ī gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb―which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. She will begin a national tour starting October 8 through November 6, ending at DDR Books.Īt the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. One was the rov of the town, Rav Eliezer Paltiel Rothblatt, who was appointed rov of Siennica while still in his twenties. The saga of Siennica is chronicled by two rabbonim who were present at the scene they were among the very few Polish rabbonim to survive the Holocaust. These simple folk, tormented with fear for themselves and their families, could have allowed self-interest to guide them but they did not choose this easier path. Many of these dilemmas pitted self-interest against Torah ethics and obligations. The story of this shtetl shines a light on how ordinary Jews turned to their rabbonim in those dark days for life-and-death questions that confronted them. Siennica was occupied by the Germans in 1939, after their lightning conquest of Poland which set the stage for the Nazi slaughter of more than three million Polish Jews. More than half of the town’s population was Jews. One of these accounts unfolds in Siennica, a Polish shtetl of about 1000 people, southeast of Warsaw. Esther Farbstein, first-person accounts bring the reader into the heart of some of these wrenching quandaries. In “Hidden in Thunder: Perspectives on Faith, Halacha and Leadership,” by Prof. Holocaust memoirs record many situations in which a Jew or group of Jews found themselves in unprecedented moral dilemmas that tested every drop of their spiritual fiber. |