The Principles of Sufism'A'ishah al Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic and a prolific poet and writer, she composed more works in Arabic than any other woman before the twentieth century. Yet despite her extraordinary literary and religious achievements, 'A'ishah al

now published in the UK for the first time in a revised translation by Megan McDowell

first published in 1956

”a fundamental contribution to the scholarly literature on Malay cinema” – Liew Kai Khiun

humanist values can best serve the vital goal of true equality

Manuel Garcia Morente

Some foxing

his occasional references to Sufism are among the ‘other auxiliary matters which serve to uncover some deeply buried secrets’

a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes

adoption of diverse religious practices

Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career

The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impoverished discussions of racism and prejudice more generally

competition