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A Critical Study of Ibn Taymias Response to Christianity
Introduction Historical, political and religious factors occasioned to a vast interfaith polemical literature between Muslims and Christians. Along history, there had been many such polemical responses, in which the respective writers exerted to rebut the opponents' doctrines and prove their own. The crusaders and their political existence in the holy land and elsewhere, and their collusion with the Tatars against the Muslims at some epochs of history induced many antipathetic reactions that ranged from military to academic. Besides, the Islamic duty of defending and propagating Islam imposed and provoked the responses of many Muslim scholars. Among the very prominent responses is that which Ibn Taymiyyah, who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, launched. Ibn Taymiyyah wrote prolifically almost about every subject of religious import. Regarding refuting Christianity, apart from the small tracts and chapters in different books, he wrote a voluminous book challenging their assertions against Islam and disproving Christian allegations and doctrines. Significance of the Study This is an attempt to carry out a critical study of Ibn Taymiyyah's response to Christianity. This response was triggered by a letter Ibn Taymiyyah received from Paul of Antioch, the bishop of Sidon See. Ibn Taymiyyah who was always keen to counter attack any innovation in religion from within the Muslim community could not have condoned this daring transgression in which the necessity of Islam as the only valid means for salvation is challenged. He, therefore, ventured to write a long, cogent response where (as usual) he utilized his unmatchable polemical power to keep the Muslim's theology in its pristine shape. Ibn Taymiyyah mentions at the introducing pages the main points that were claimed by the Christian bishop in the letter. They can be reiterated thus: ¿ That Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was not sent to the Christians. Rather, he was sent exclusively to the pagan Arabs and the Quran testifies to this. ¿ Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) spoke highly about their religion in the Quran,- Shop: buecher
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Transformations - Healing Trauma with Psychedelic Therapy (eBook, ePUB)
¿Transformations; Healiing Trauma With Psychedelic Therapy, is a must-read for anyone interested in a psychedelic solution for the healing of truama, and mental illness. This three part book provides all you need to know on the subject of psychedelic therapy. Part One: Provides information for those seeking psychedelic healing: are you a suitable candidate for this therapy; how do you find and what do you look for in a safe underground therapist; how do psychedelics actually work to heal traumatised, depressed and anxious people.Part Two: Is the stories of 22 people who took part in 40 psychedlelic therapy sessions with either: MDMA, PSILOCYBIN or AYAHUASCA . They explain what motivated them to do so, what it felt like, what insights they gained and what enduring life changes they have noticed as a result. Part Three: Is a rare font of knowledge for both practising and intending psychedelic therapists. It provides tried-and-tested treatment protocols and proceedures; how to deal with people in altered states of conciousness; things that can go wrong; and much much more.'I have come to know and appreciate Dale as a respectful, careful, and highly ethical therapist. Her practical experience in this not-yet-well-known field of work, especially trauma work with psychoactive substances, is impressive and testifies to a great knowledge of this field. Her previous clinical experience, especially with traumatized people, and the intensive working through of her own biography allows her to excellently grasp and accompany the essence of people with post-traumatic stress disorder. Her expertise in the field of psychoactive substances is impressively vast. Her book is carefully researched, clearly written and easy to understand.' ____Dr Friederike Meckel Fischer, author of Therapy with Substance"Dale Carruth has emerged from the underground to reveal research she's been quietly conducting for years. She flew to Australia in 2017 to take part in illegal psychedelic therapy in the hope of healing her debilitating depression and PTSD, conditions stemming from childhood sexual abuse. After profound and effective healing, Carruth, a qualified therapist, felt obliged to help others do the same. I believe this book can help guide therapists to carry out this most important work in helping to heal the millions who suffer daily from the crippling effects of trauma. This unique contribution can also help people seeking psychedelic therapy to understand what they are in for and help them to prepare for and understand the processes involved in going through these most profound and effective treatments." ___ Julian Palmer, author of Articulations: On the Utilisation and Meaning of Psychedelics- Shop: buecher
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Transformations - Healing Trauma with Psychedelic Therapy
¿Transformations; Healiing Trauma With Psychedelic Therapy, is a must-read for anyone interested in a psychedelic solution for the healing of truama, and mental illness. This three part book provides all you need to know on the subject of psychedelic therapy. Part One: Provides information for those seeking psychedelic healing: are you a suitable candidate for this therapy; how do you find and what do you look for in a safe underground therapist; how do psychedelics actually work to heal traumatised, depressed and anxious people. Part Two: Is the stories of 22 people who took part in 40 psychedlelic therapy sessions with either: MDMA, PSILOCYBIN or AYAHUASCA . They explain what motivated them to do so, what it felt like, what insights they gained and what enduring life changes they have noticed as a result. Part Three: Is a rare font of knowledge for both practising and intending psychedelic therapists. It provides tried-and-tested treatment protocols and proceedures; how to deal with people in altered states of conciousness; things that can go wrong; and much much more. 'I have come to know and appreciate Dale as a respectful, careful, and highly ethical therapist. Her practical experience in this not-yet-well-known field of work, especially trauma work with psychoactive substances, is impressive and testifies to a great knowledge of this field. Her previous clinical experience, especially with traumatized people, and the intensive working through of her own biography allows her to excellently grasp and accompany the essence of people with post-traumatic stress disorder. Her expertise in the field of psychoactive substances is impressively vast. Her book is carefully researched, clearly written and easy to understand.' ____Dr Friederike Meckel Fischer, author of Therapy with Substance "Dale Carruth has emerged from the underground to reveal research she's been quietly conducting for years. She flew to Australia in 2017 to take part in illegal psychedelic therapy in the hope of healing her debilitating depression and PTSD, conditions stemming from childhood sexual abuse. After profound and effective healing, Carruth, a qualified therapist, felt obliged to help others do the same. I believe this book can help guide therapists to carry out this most important work in helping to heal the millions who suffer daily from the crippling effects of trauma. This unique contribution can also help people seeking psychedelic therapy to understand what they are in for and help them to prepare for and understand the processes involved in going through these most profound and effective treatments." ___ Julian Palmer, author of Articulations: On the Utilisation and Meaning of Psychedelics- Shop: buecher
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Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf. Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the centre of our idea of a literary life. How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media. "With Virginia Woolf alongside them, Queyras journeys through rooms literal and figurative, complicating and deepening our understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a writer. Their hard-won language challenges us to resist any glib associations of Woolf's famous 'room' with an easy freedom. Inspiring and moving, Queyras's memoir testifies to Woolf's continuing generative power."?Mark Hussey, editor of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (2011) and author of Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism (2021) "In this beautiful, perceptive book, Sina Queyras moves deftly between the words and wake of Virginia Woolf and their own formation as writer, lover, teacher, friend, and person. Rooms is expert in its depiction of personal and literary histories, and firmly aware of its moment of composition. Reading these pages, I was enticed by Queyras's curiosity and openness, thrilled by the sharp edges of their anger. Tight prose, electric thinking, self-discovery ? it's all here, all abuzz. Rooms is alive." ? Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book "It is impossible not to question the world as we thought we knew it by the end of this book. Sina Queyras painstakingly aims their extraordinary nerve and talent at Virginia Woolf's idea of a room of one's own: 'It's a mistake to consider the room without all of its entanglements.' Taking Woolf's cue, Queyras explores writing that is not world-building but something far more generous and transformative; as Woolf wrote, 'Literature is open to everybody.'" ? CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration- Shop: buecher
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Rooms (eBook, ePUB)
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf. Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the centre of our idea of a literary life. How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media. "With Virginia Woolf alongside them, Queyras journeys through rooms literal and figurative, complicating and deepening our understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a writer. Their hard-won language challenges us to resist any glib associations of Woolf's famous 'room' with an easy freedom. Inspiring and moving, Queyras's memoir testifies to Woolf's continuing generative power."Mark Hussey, editor of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (2011) and author of Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism (2021) "In this beautiful, perceptive book, Sina Queyras moves deftly between the words and wake of Virginia Woolf and their own formation as writer, lover, teacher, friend, and person. Rooms is expert in its depiction of personal and literary histories, and firmly aware of its moment of composition. Reading these pages, I was enticed by Queyras's curiosity and openness, thrilled by the sharp edges of their anger. Tight prose, electric thinking, self-discovery it's all here, all abuzz. Rooms is alive." Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book"It is impossible not to question the world as we thought we knew it by the end of this book. Sina Queyras painstakingly aims their extraordinary nerve and talent at Virginia Woolf's idea of a room of one's own: 'It's a mistake to consider the room without all of its entanglements.' Taking Woolf's cue, Queyras explores writing that is not world-building but something far more generous and transformative; as Woolf wrote, 'Literature is open to everybody.'" CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration - Shop: buecher
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A Show Beyond Man And Time
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING GERMAN ART & PROG ROCK BANDS IN A SPECTACLE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!THE DOUBLE CD FEATURES A SPECIALSHOW RECORDED ERLIER THIS YEAR AT WYSPIANSKI THEATER IN KATOWICE,POLAND,WHICH WAS ALSO THE LAST COMPLETE PERFORMANCE OF THEIRMOST RECENT ALBUM "BEYOND MEN AND TIME" IN EUROPE.THOUGHTFUL,ABSTRACT,ANDWITH A TINT OF THE GROTESQUE,THE SHOW TESTIFIES RORPWLS IMMENSE ARTISTIC PROWESS..!- Shop: odax
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A Conversation between Friends
The Belgian chamber music ensemble Oxalys celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018. Founded at the Brussels Conservatory of Music, the musicians have convinced critics and music lovers alike in recent years, not only through their top-class interpretations but also through their curiosity and intuition-influenced programmes. This release, which features the ensemble's best recordings to date, testifies to this.- Shop: odax
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Sinfonie 7
Alexandre Bloch (Dir) // Alexandre Bloch, who has been Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lille since 2016, has chosen to devote a whole season of concerts to Mahler's symphonies. The Seventh (1904-05) is the most rarely recorded of the cycle - unjustly because this work later nicknamed 'Song of the Night' testifies as clearly as its companions to the metaphysical grandiloquence that haunted Mahler during its gestation.- Shop: odax
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Sparkle Plenty
"A back road ride straight to Heartbreak Hotel, ,SPARKLE PLENTY ,has more perspectives on the heart than an episode of 'House.' The opening riff of 'No Reason At All' has an indie feel but makes a hard right into contemporary country.  ,The chords and melodies take twists and turns in all of her songs, but it's the instrumentation that stands out.  ,Very well produced, Linton covers a lot of ground stylistically, flying effortlessly from folk to blues and even classical. Linton sounds confident in what she wants to say, if not heart-weary, but never leaves you in the dumps. This is a mature record, touching on motherhood, long looks back down the path of experience and, yes, lost loves and opportunities.  ,But often out of sorrow rises hope, and it has a name: beauty. , Does it sparkle?  ,Plenty." - Jeff Reid, The Beat Magazine Everyone has heard a song that reaches a certain place inside and helps them make sense of the world. Brenda Linton writes that kind of song. "There are a lot of secrets that people hold, both good and bad," explains Linton. "If you dare to reveal your own secrets, then the listener finds it easier to identify with your song and with you as an artist." As the daughter of rural Southern parents reared in poverty, Brenda Linton became aware at a young age of her mother's dreams for her - that she would have red hair and would sing and dance like Shirley Temple. Today, although the petite redhead has some great moves on the dance floor, she is best known for a voice so pure and melodic that fans have dubbed her the "Carolina Nightingale." Born in Washington, North Carolina, Linton says she was nurtured as a child by "a passel of kind-hearted women, including my mother, grandmother, maternal aunts, and housekeepers who treated me as their own." Her mother overcame childhood polio to train as a registered nurse and began working at the county hospital when Linton was still an infant. Raised in a Baptist orphanage, her father was a major source of strength and understanding in later life. But in her early years, his work as a master plasterer frequently took him away from home, even to the island of Bermuda. "Part of my dad's compensation was a month in paradise for my mom and me," says Linton of the experience, "and I guess my love of the road began there." Although Linton remembers hearing lots of music during her early childhood, her formal education began at the age of eight when her parents bought her a Wurlitzer spinet and a set of classical piano books. She demonstrated a quick aptitude for music and, encouraged by her teachers, took top honors in juried piano competitions at the nearby university, and won singing parts in school musicals. By adolescence, Linton had developed a list of favorite singers (Perry Como, Paul McCartney, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell) whose influence would later emerge in her unique vocal style. In high school, she taught herself to play guitar and formed a duo with a girlfriend that expanded into a folk trio called the New Horizon Singers. By her mid-teens, Linton was performing regularly in college coffee houses. After graduation, she joined an established folk-rock group called Warm. Linton's voice as well as the innovative harmonies and original songs provided by the other three members set the band apart from most local acts in eastern North Carolina. During her two years with Warm, she performed throughout the southeast at music clubs, rock festivals, and college venues, and opened concerts for recording artists such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Rare Earth. When Warm broke up, Linton decided to pursue her childhood dream of living in Europe. She traveled in Switzerland, Italy, and France before settling in London. She established a musical relationship with another songwriter and recorded demos that were nibbled at by a British record label but the deal eventually fell through. Meanwhile, she supported herself by working in pubs, Carnaby Street clothes shops, and betting establishments. While in London, Linton also tried some new directions which were short-lived, including singing with a heavy metal band. Homesick and lonely, she turned to songwriting. "During that period, I wrote songs to try to understand myself better," Linton recalls, "and I wrote songs about stories I heard from the people I met." One such story from an Irish friend about a supernatural encounter would later become the title song for her 2005 debut album, THE SECRET. Recorded and co-produced by John Plymale at Overdub Lane in Durham, NC, THE SECRET contains six original tracks that demonstrate Linton's skill at penning lyrics and music that stir both the heart and mind. 'Bargain Love' and 'The Good Life' provide opposite views of the same phenomenon - how living a borrowed life only alienates us from ourselves and others. The jazzy 'Quiet Love' testifies to the wisdom of finding our own answers rather than relying on popular culture. "Warriors" and "Still in This World" are perhaps the most personal songs on the album and movingly express the depth of Linton's sorrow at losing her mother to breast cancer in 2004 as well as the belief that there is still much to recommend the world - a belief made more poignant by her own triumph over the same disease. The tune for "Warriors" was written by Thomas Walsh, a gifted composer and multi-instrumentalist living outside Dublin. "I happened upon his lovely melody, 'Innisheer,' and knew it would be the perfect complement for my lyrics," says Linton. "When I called him to get permission to use the tune, he was at home with the flu, but he was very gracious and we found we had a lot in common. Music often allows perfect strangers to quickly get down to the important stuff." Since the singer-songwriter returned to the United States, she has performed and recorded with a variety of musicians and producers in several locales, including Nashville. For over a decade, she was a member of the Angelettes, a three-woman vocal group whose harmonies brought much delight to listeners as well as the singers themselves. One of her biggest thrills has been finding opportunities to collaborate with her brother and younger son, talented musicians in their own right. In 2009, Linton began a collaboration with musicians in North Carolina's Triangle area to record a new album of mostly original songs called SPARKLE PLENTY. In the interim between her first and second albums, Linton has honed her narrative songwriting skills, and she takes the listener on a journey of diverse moods and locales ranging from an 18th century rice plantation to a late-night bar where regret hangs in the air like smoke. Co-produced by Rick Lassiter, SPARKLE PLENTY also showcases a traditional ballad from Newfoundland and a poignant song by Laura Silvestri about a young woman's search for the grandmother she never met. The album's first track, 'No Reason at All,' is the account of two people who learn the depths of their capacity to love through the trial and error of long-term relationship. This universal story has been turned into a music video by independent film maker, Michael Babbitt, and can be viewed via YouTube and Linton's website. Linton is grateful for the friends, fans, and talented fellow musicians who continue to support her, and feels lucky to have been given the resources to write, record, and perform music that she believes in. "My records are really about people I know or have read about in newspapers or historical accounts," she says. "All of us have experiences that are very private and only surface indirectly. And it's that mysterious territory that I love to explore.- Shop: odax
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