This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine's confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time's focus with eternity's longueur and the rhetoric of digression?
Stephen Blake compares the Islamic concept of time across the empires of the Safavids, Ottomans and Mughals.
Stephen Blake compares the Islamic concept of time across the empires of the Safavids, Ottomans and Mughals.
The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy. …
Stephen Blake compares the Islamic concept of time across the empires of the Safavids, Ottomans and Mughals.
The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy. …
"The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy.…
Stephen Blake compares the Islamic concept of time across the empires of the Safavids, Ottomans and Mughals.
"The conception of time elicited by Wolfson from a host of philosophical and mystical sources-both Jewish and non-Jewish-buttresses the contention that it is precisely structural invariability that engenders interpretive variation. This hermeneutical axiom is justified, in turn,…
