Glasse, Cyril:The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Livres de poche 2008, ISBN: 9781900988063
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Very Good+. 1990. Softcover. 0521389798 . Minor wear at cover corner points. Light scratching to covers. ; Clean and tight. B/w ilustrations. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 341 pp ., Cambridge University Press, 1990, 3, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1986. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography. Clean, bright copy. Record # 380304, University of California Press, 1986, 3, NY: British Film Institute/Palgrave, 2008. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 119 pages, b&w photos, Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Vardas classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda, the only major female French director of the period, never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du Cinéma group of critics turned filmmakers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic context, tracing Vardas early career as a student of art history and a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléos health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléos formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a document of a specific historical moment. Record # 374736, British Film Institute/Palgrave, 2008, 3, Stacey International, London, 2001. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition (ex-library). Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 534 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Text marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. This fully revised new edition comprehensively encompasses the religion, history and culture of the Islamic world in some 1300 entries. It covers aspects of religious belief, ritual, practices, prayer, significant political movements, spiritual and political leaders, art, architecture, sects, law, social institutions, history, ethnography, nations and states, languages, science, major cities and centres of learning.; This edition includes a double-column page on the Taliban - where they arose from, why, and what they aspire to. Also included are several other organizations and movements which bear upon the crisis that has descended upon the world, West and East alike. The first edition of the Encyclopedia won worldwide acclaim. The Book Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Detailed cross-references lead the general reader into deeper knowledge of' Islam. whatever his starting point. Many quotations. and hitherto un-translated prayers. support the religious and philosophical entries. Six years in preparation by a practicing Muslim, this work is the result of a Lifetimes study and a wide personal acquaintance with the Muslim world. As a western scholar (a graduate of Columbia University) and a Practicing Muslim, Cyril Glassé manages to straddle both cultures with an understanding of, and respect for both the current Islamic world and its complex past. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Reference; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 1900988062. ISBN/EAN: 9781900988063. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3200. . 9781900988063, Stacey International, 2001, 3<
