Author: Samuel Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fa
Pages : 266
Book Description
Mukhtasar lagat farsi or a vocabulary of the Persian language
A New English-Hindustani Dictionary
Author: S. W. Fallon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Modern Hindustani Scholar, Or, The Pucca Munshi
Author: Thakardass Pahwa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urdu language
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urdu language
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The bride's mirror; or, Mir-ātu l -ạrūs of Maulavī Naz̲īr -Aḥmad
Author: Naz̲īr Aḥmad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Dictionary, Hindūstānī and English
Author: John Shakespear
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Philology of the English Tongue
Author: John Earle
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Bride's Mirror
Author: Naz̲īr Aḥmad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Madrasa in Asia
Author: Farish A. Noor
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053567100
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Summary: "Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of education. This volume presents an overview of the madrasas in countries such as China, Indonesia, Malayisia, India and Pakistan."--Publisher description.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053567100
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Summary: "Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of education. This volume presents an overview of the madrasas in countries such as China, Indonesia, Malayisia, India and Pakistan."--Publisher description.
Kamikaze Diaries
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226620921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics and chauvinists who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation. Such young men were the intellectual elite of modern Japan: steeped in the classics and major works of philosophy, they took Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as their motto. And in their diaries and correspondence, as Ohnuki-Tierney shows, these student soldiers wrote long and often heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear, expressed profound ambivalence toward the war, and articulated thoughtful opposition to their nation’s imperialism. A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226620921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics and chauvinists who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation. Such young men were the intellectual elite of modern Japan: steeped in the classics and major works of philosophy, they took Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as their motto. And in their diaries and correspondence, as Ohnuki-Tierney shows, these student soldiers wrote long and often heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear, expressed profound ambivalence toward the war, and articulated thoughtful opposition to their nation’s imperialism. A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
Author: Gerhard Bowering
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691134847
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
"In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691134847
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
"In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.