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Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt: The Wafa Sufi Order and the Legacy of Ibn ‘Arabi

Richard J. A. McGregor

Using the original, little-known writings of Sufis Muhammad and ‘Ali Wafa’, this book explores the development of the idea of Islamic sainthood in the post-Ibn ‘Arabi period.

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Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt: The Wafa Sufi Order and the Legacy of Ibn ‘Arabi

Richard J. A. McGregor

Using the original, little-known writings of Sufis Muhammad and ‘Ali Wafa’, this book explores the development of the idea of Islamic sainthood in the post-Ibn ‘Arabi period.

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Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria

Richard J. A. McGregor (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

By reconstructing the biographies of religious objects (relics, banners, public texts, coverings for the Ka'ba), this study recovers the premodern visual culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria. It follows the…

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Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism

Fourteen chapters from international geographers and cultural analysts, academic and otherwise, on veganism as a conceptual and physical space.

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history…

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Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering

J. Kenneth Shultis (Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA),Richard E. Faw (Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA),Douglas S. McGregor

Explores the subatomic world and surveys numerous applications of nuclear energy. An ideal introduction to the fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering. Presents the basic nuclear science needed to understand…

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