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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

Volume 3: From God ́s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism, B. History of Science

By: Hans Daiber

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

Volume 3: From God ́s Wisdom to Science: A. Islamic Theology and Sufism, B. History of Science

By: Hans Daiber

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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9004441808

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9789004441804

Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation

Insights and Lessons to be Learned

By: Edgar Klinger,Hans-Wolf Sievert,Günter Bierbrauer,Michael Harris Bond

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Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation

Insights and Lessons to be Learned

By: Edgar Klinger,Hans-Wolf Sievert,Günter Bierbrauer,Michael Harris Bond

What makes international joint ventures successful? Among other key success factors such as strategic fit, material and political-relational incentives, and the cultural compatibility of the joint venture partners, the role of one factor in the successful establishment and management of joint ventures is critical: the mutual trust among the managers involved. This book explores how to establish, develop, and continue to nurture mutual trust between the managers of German and Chinese joint ventures. A series of guided interviews conducted by the authors reveals assessments of Chinese and European executives about their mutual trust in the context of the cultural differences between the two countries, the worldviews characterizing China and Germany, and their impact on the behavior of their executives. The authors then use these judgements from the interviews to make recommendations for action to build more successful cooperation in German-Chinese business cooperation in future joint enterprises. Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation is essential reading for managers of international companies and students of business management, business psychology and intercultural management.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111344568

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9783111344560

Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures

A Historical and Bibliographical Survey

By: Hans Daiber

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Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures

A Historical and Bibliographical Survey

By: Hans Daiber

Islamic thought is the most beautiful result of a multicultural dialogue. Islamic culture became a bridge between antiquity, Iranian scholars, Syriac and Arabic Christians and the Latin Middle Ages. Its richness of ideas, its plurality of values can contribute to the requirements of modern plurality. The monograph aims at a historical and bibliographical survey of the qurʾānic and rational world-view of early Islam, of the period of translations from Greek into Syriac and Arabic, and of the impact of Islamic thought on the Latin Middle Ages. Critical reflexions of Muslim scholars stimulated new scientific ideas and make us aware of the contribution of Islam to humanity.

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9004232044

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9789004232044

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy

Supplement

By: Hans Daiber

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy

Supplement

By: Hans Daiber

Since the publication of the author ́s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY in 1999 more than 3000 new books and articles in the field of Islamic philosophy, its Greek sources and its aftermath in European philosophy appeared and illustrate the increasing interest of the Islamic and the Western world. Philosophical thought as part of the Islamic culture became a medium in the dialogue between cultures and a tool for reflexion and methodology, which are indispensable for creativity and human behaviour. This supplement covers all new publications as far as they were available and could be included in the extensive index on authors, texts, translations and commentaries, and philosophical terms and concepts.

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9047411692

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9789047411697

Does God Exist

An Answer For Today

By: Hans Kung

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Does God Exist

An Answer For Today

By: Hans Kung

Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. Yet there remains a longing for certainty. Certainty? Whether Christians or Jews, believers in God or atheists, the discussion today runs right across old denominations and new ideologies—but the longing for certainty is unquenched. Does God exist? We are putting all our cards on the table here. The answer will be "Yes, God exists," As human beings in the twentieth century, we certainly can reasonably believe in God—even more so in the Christian God—and perhaps even more easily today than a few decades or centuries ago. For, after so many crises, it is surprising how much has been clarified and how many difficulties in regard to belief in God have melted into the Light that no darkness has overcome.

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Doubleday

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030782652X

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9780307826527

Credo

The Apostles' Creed Explained for Today

By: Hans Kung

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Credo

The Apostles' Creed Explained for Today

By: Hans Kung

In this small, lucid gem of a book, the controversial Swiss theologian Hans Kung offers his thoughtful explanation of what the ancient profession of Christian faith can mean for us today. In doing so, Kung also flings a challenging response to the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, for 'Credo' is a fresh answer to the conservative stance of today's Vatican - a salvo that cannot be ignored. While controversy inevitably surrounds all of Kung's books, 'Credo' is his most accessible and straightforward work to date, written simply for all readers. It is the summation of a lifetime of theological thought by one of Christianity's most profound and original thinkers - a book that reaches out to non-Catholic Christians, as well as to Jews, Moslems, and those of the Eastern religions, and that gives everyone the dignity he or she deserves. Kung asks the big questions: Can we still believe in God? In the Virgin birth? In the divinity of Jesus? In his resurrection? In eternal life? And Kung also asks many unusual questions: Did Auschwitz disprove the existence in God? Is there any real difference between Jesus and the Buddha? Is resurrection from the dead un-Jewish? Must the Church be undemocratic?The answers he gives are, as always, profound and unexpected. This is not a book just for Catholics or even just for Christians, but a book for anyone with an interest in how religion can be integrated into contemporary life. Here is a great modern intellect - at his most reader friendly.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1592443451

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Eranos

An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

By: Hans Thomas Hakl

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Eranos

An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

By: Hans Thomas Hakl

Every year since 1933 many of the world's leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore the mystical and symbolic in religion. The Eranos Meetings - named after the Greek word for a banquet where the guests bring the food - constitute one of the most important gatherings of scholars in the twentieth century. The book presents a set of portraits of some of the century's most influential thinkers, all participants at Eranos: Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Martin Buber, Walter Otto, Paul Tillich, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, Joseph Campbell, Erwin Schrodinger, Karl Kereyni, D.T. Suzuki, and Adolph Portmann. The volume presents a critical appraisal of the views of these men, how the exchange of ideas encouraged by Eranos influenced each, and examines the attraction of these esotericists towards authoritarian politics.

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Routledge

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1317548124

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Global Responsibility

In Search of a New World Ethic

By: Hans Kung

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Global Responsibility

In Search of a New World Ethic

By: Hans Kung

In this timely and urgent work, Hans Kung reminds us: - Every minute, the nations of the world spend 1.8 million dollars on military armaments; - Every hour, 1500 children die of hunger-related causes; - Every week during the 1980s, more people were detained, tortured, assassinated, made refugee, or in other ways violated by acts of repressive regimes than at any other time in history; - Every month, the world's economic system adds over 7.5 billion dollars to the catastrophically unbearable debt burden of more than 1.5 trillion dollars now resting on the shoulders of Third World peoples; - Every year, an area of tropical forest three-quarters the size of Korea is destroyed and lost; - Every decade, if present global warming trends continue, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise dramatically with a resultant rise in sea levels that would have disastrous consequences, particularly for coastal areas of all the earth's land masses. In 'Global Responsibility', the author offers important new approaches and concludes that: - There can be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. - There can be no peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions. - There can be no ongoing human society without a global ethic.

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1592445608

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A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

By: Hans Kung

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A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

By: Hans Kung

As the twentieth century draws to a close and the rush to globalization gathers momentum, political and economic considerations are crowding out vital ethical questions about the shape of our future. Now, Hans Küng, one of the world's preeminent Christian theologians, explores these issues in a visionary and cautionary look at the coming global society. How can the new world order of the twenty first century avoid the horrors of the twentieth? Will nations form a real community or continue to aggressively pursue their own interests? Will the Machiavellian approaches of the past prevail over idealism and a more humanitarian politics? What role can religion play in a world increasingly dominated by transnational corporations? Küng tackles these and many other questions with the insight and moral authority that comes from a lifetime's devotion to the search for justice and human dignity. Arguing against both an amoral realpolitik and an immoral resurgence of laissez faire economics, Küng defines a comprehensive ethic founded on the bedrock of mutual respect and humane treatment of all beings that would encompass the ecological, legal, technological, and social patterns that are reshaping civilization. If we are going to have a global economy, a global technology, a global media, Küng argues, we must also have a global ethic to which all nations, and peoples of the most varied backgrounds and beliefs, can commit themselves. "The world," he says, "is not going to be held together by the Internet." For anyone concerned about the world we are creating, A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics offers equal measures of informed analysis, compassionate foresight, and wise counsel.

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Oxford University Press

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0195352785

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9780195352788

Turkey’s Violent Formation

New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire

By: Hans-Lukas Kieser

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Turkey’s Violent Formation

New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire

By: Hans-Lukas Kieser

The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe's diplomacy and appeasement. Yet the currents that gave rise to the defining events of the period – ultranationalism, imperial proto-fascism, and pan-Islamism – have yet to be definitively integrated into historiography. The case studies in this book reappraise key events, concepts, and individuals in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. Divided into four parts, the book first examines squandered opportunities for democratic reform of the multi-ethnic empire, as well as the emergence of extreme politico-religious ideology in the late Ottoman period. It then examines the continuity of these currents in Kemalist Turkey in case studies including anti-Kurdish campaigns and biographical studies of key actors, insiders, and ideologues such as Ziya Gökalp, Cavid Bey, Riza Nur, and Mahmut Bozkurt. The final part of the book explores the legacy of Turkey's violent formation vis-à-vis its relations with wartime ally Germany in the context particularly of the Armenian genocide. Together, the chapters in this book emphasise the legacy of foundational violence which marked the formation of authoritarian modern Turkey, while highlighting the need for new, inclusive democratic social contracts.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755649575

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Theology for the Third Millennium

An Ecumenical View

By: Hans Kung

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Theology for the Third Millennium

An Ecumenical View

By: Hans Kung

In Theology for the Third Millennium, which culminates thirty years of scholarship, Hans Küng reaffirms the relevance of theology in a modern world where religion is constantly questioned—and frequently attacked.

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0307805883

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 1

Alphabetical List of Publications

By: Hans Daiber

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 1

Alphabetical List of Publications

By: Hans Daiber

The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004113473).

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9004534032

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 2

Index of Names, Terms, Topics

By: Hans Daiber

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 2

Index of Names, Terms, Topics

By: Hans Daiber

The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004113473).

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9004534040

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The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

By: Stephen Durrant,Wai-yee Li,Michael Nylan,Hans van Ess

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The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

By: Stephen Durrant,Wai-yee Li,Michael Nylan,Hans van Ess

Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead of honorably committing suicide following his castration for “deceiving the emperor.” In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, some scholars have queried the authenticity of the letter. Is it a genuine piece of writing by Sima Qian or an early work of literary impersonation? The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy provides a full translation of the letter and uses different methods to explore issues in textual history. It also shows how ideas about friendship, loyalty, factionalism, and authorship encoded in the letter have far-reaching implications for the study of China.

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University of Washington Press

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0295806389

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Rubens Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp

By: Hans Vlieghe,Peter Paul Rubens

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Rubens Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp

By: Hans Vlieghe,Peter Paul Rubens

This volume is the second in the series devoted to portraits and in this volume is confined to portraits painted in Antwerp, cataloguing those in which the sitters are identified. Dr. Vlieghe examines the specific stylistic evolution of Rubens as a portrait painter, and shows how clearly the portraits reflect the general development of the painter's style. Of particular interest is the way in which Rubens merged the monumental sense of form and High-Renaissance devices that he had learnt in Italy with the traditions of style and iconography current in the Southern Netherlands. Especial emphasis is laid on the emblematic character of Rubens's portraits, especially those of his own family.

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0905203577

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation

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Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy

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Does God Exist

Does God Exist

Credo

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Eranos

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Global Responsibility

Global Responsibility

A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

Turkey’s Violent Formation

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Theology for the Third Millennium

Theology for the Third Millennium

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 1

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Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 2

Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, Volume 2

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

Rubens Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp

Rubens Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp

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