This book is a succinct but comprehensive presentation of the life and teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The first part is a brief biography of the Holy Prophet Muhammad which deals with his exemplary character and details the reasons for the defensive wars of the Holy Prophet and the reasons for his multiple marriages after the wars began.
A highly acclaimed work, first published in 1917, the first generally available English rendering by a Muslim. Revised by the translator & re-published in 1951. Contains the Arabic text & English translation in parallel columns, with explanatory notes underneath. The translation is idiomatic, yet more faithful to the Arabic original than other ......
Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts traditional church teaching? This book addresses these and many other questions.
Resplendent with the divine 'creative Voice', the meditative prayers reproduced and studied in this book celebrate the yearly cycle of the seasons and the Christian festivals. The prayers or 'Epistles' are an integral part of the renewed liturgy of The Christian Community, a non-sectarian church founded in 1922. In this invaluable companion, Alan ......
The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability. Based on the 2022 Richard E. Myers lectures given by renowned literary scholar Michael Edwards-the first Englishman ever elected to the Academie francaise-this book offers a close ......
The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability. Based on the 2022 Richard E. Myers lectures given by renowned literary scholar Michael Edwards-the first Englishman ever elected to the Academie francaise-this book offers a close ......
The publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 began a new scriptural tradition. Resisting the long-established closed biblical canon, the Book of Mormon posited that the Bible was incomplete and corrupted. With a commitment to an open canon, a variety of Latter Day Saint denominations have emerged, each offering their own scriptural works to ......
The publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 began a new scriptural tradition. Resisting the long-established closed biblical canon, the Book of Mormon posited that the Bible was incomplete and corrupted. With a commitment to an open canon, a variety of Latter Day Saint denominations have emerged, each offering their own scriptural works to ......
Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of the broader Latter-day Saint movement, produced several volumes of scripture between 1829, when he translated the Book of Mormon, and 1844, when he was murdered. The Book of Mormon, published in 1830, is well known. Less read and studied are the subsequent ......
