Maktub Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
...Maktub Written. The term frequently carries the meaning “decreed” or “established.” Occurs once in the Quran at 7:157 , a verse stating that Muhammad is clearly mentioned or “written” in the Torah and the Gospels. In popular religion, it refers to fate or something that is...
Maktub
Coelho, Paulo (1947– ) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
...Paulo ( 1947– ) Brazilian author and lyricist The Pilgrimage ( 1987 ) Fiction The Alchemist ( 1988 ) Fiction Brida ( 1990 ) Fiction The Valkyries ( 1992 ) Fiction By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept ( 1994 ) Fiction Maktub ( 1994 ) Fiction Short Stories The Fifth Mountain ( 1996 ) Fiction Manual of the Warrior of Light ( 1997 ) Fiction Veronika Decides to Die ( 1998 ) Fiction The Devil and Miss Prym ( 2000 ) Fiction Fathers, Sons and Grandsons ( 2001 ) Children's Fiction Eleven Minutes ( 2003 ) Fiction The Genie and the...
Majlis Reference library
Peri Bearman
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
...other sectarian branches of Islam; it refers to a “formal session of religious instruction, the place of it, and also to the lecture or sermon read in it” ( Madelung, 1986 , p. 1033). An early treatise by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī ( d. 1153 ) entitled Majlis-i maktūb , which was discovered in 1964, is an example of such a sermon, in this case delivered to a Twelver Shīʿī audience circa 1145. The majlis was institutionalized by the Fāṭimids, whose chief propagandist of the religion ( dāʿī al-duʿāt ) would prepare and deliver a sermon twice...
Mīr Dāmād Reference library
Mehdi Aminrazavi
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
...1977. Toshihiko Izutsu’s extensive introduction to this volume provides significant insight into Mīr Dāmād’s philosophy and provides an alternative interpretation of the relationship among the three ontological domains. Pustin Duz, Samira , ed. Divān-i ishrāq .Tehran: Mirath-i Maktub Press, 1965. Secondary Works Aminrazavi, Mehdi . “Mir Damad on Time and Temporality.” In Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life , edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka , pp. 159–165. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2007. Āshtiyānī, Seyyed Jalāl...
Seattle Reference library
Melinda Bargreen, Laurel Sercombe, and John Vallier
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...success, a handful became tremendously successful by the early 1990s, including Pearl jam , Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and, most notably, Nirvana . As grunge faded, a variety of scenes emerged such as experimental punk/world music (Sun City Girls), fusion-infused R&B (Maktub), and indie rock (Sunny Day Real Estate, Modest Mouse, and Death Cab for Cutie). Hip-hop also developed roots in Seattle, with Sir Mix-A-Lot gaining early notoriety for his “Posse on Broadway” ( 1988 ). The popular music scene continues to be eclectic at the start of the 21st...
Būzjānī, Abū-l-Wafāʾ (940–988 ce) Reference library
Younes Mahdavi
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
...Abī Naṣr Mansūr ibn ʿIrāq . Book 8, pp. 1–13. Hyderabad, India: Maṭbaʿat Jamʿīyat Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1948. Būzjānī, Abū-l-Wafāʾ . Ketâb al-nejârat . Edited and translated into Persian by J. Aghayani-Chavoshi . Tehran, Iran: Markaz-i Pazhūhishī-i Mīrās-i Maktūb, 2010. Būzjānī, Abū-l-Wafāʾ . Majisṭī Abī al-Wafā ʾ al-Būzjānī . Edited by Ali Moussa . Beirut: Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah, 2010. Būzjānī, Abū-l-Wafāʾ . “Risāla fī Iqāma al-burhān ʿalā al-dāʾir min al-falak.” Rasāʾil al-Mutafarriqa fī al-Hayʾa . Hyderabad, India:...
Illustration Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
...a Persian style) and those in a simplified Akbari style, resulting in part from the fact that most of the best painters had been employed by Akbar himself. Assuming the throne as Jahangir in 1605 , the ruler took charge of his father’s enormous library and painting workshops. Maktub Khan, a scholarly courtier, was made superintendent of the library, and Jahangir’s personal seal and autograph were added to the flyleaves of many important volumes. A number of old and rare manuscripts were altered with new miniatures and marginal decorations, including...
