Against Smoking

An Ottoman Manifesto

Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

108 Seiten

2011
Kube Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84774-020-5 (ISBN)

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Ottomans initiated the West to the pleasures of opium, coffee and tulips. For their reward, they got literally 'smoked' by Europeans, who started exporting tobacco to Turkey in the early 1600s. This books looks at one the earliest texts written against smoking.

Ahmad al-Rumi Al-Aqhisari: (d. 1041) was a reformer and scholar from Anatolia, largely forgotten in his own country, but whose influence can be traced as far away as India in the 19th century. Yahya Michot: Yahya Michot lectured at Louvain and from 1998 to 2008, taught Islamic theology at the University of Oxford. He is now professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary (Connecticut). He devoted earlier books to cannabis and Sufism in Mamluk Egypt (2001), and to opium and coffee in Ottoman Turkey (2008).

List of IllustrationsForeword by Muhammad Akram NadwiPrefaceIntroduction-A forgotten puritan from Anatolia-The complexities of a radical pietism-How to turn down an English present-Recycling one's own writings-"Cheating about the religion of God"TranslationEditionAppendixBibliographyIndexes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2011
Zusatzinfo	23 B&W illustrations
Verlagsort	Markfield
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 234 mm
Gewicht	368 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-84774-020-0 / 1847740200
ISBN-13	978-1-84774-020-5 / 9781847740205
Zustand	Neuware