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  • The Children of Abraham
    Francis Edward Peters
    F. E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on a new and critical urgency.He began writing about all t...
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    26,61 €

  • Mecca
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities--and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it, and countless pilgrims and travelers--many of them European Christians in disguise--have left behind lively and well-publicized accounts of life in Mecca and its associated shrine-city of Medina, where the Prophet lies bu...
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    113,78 €

  • Jerusalem
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this city’s dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthand accounts, we see Jerusalem as it appeared through the centuries to a fascinating variety of observers--Jews, Christians, Muslims, and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. F. E. Peters skillfully unites these moving ...
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    148,83 €

  • Jerusalem
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this city’s dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthand accounts, we see Jerusalem as it appeared through the centuries to a fascinating variety of observers--Jews, Christians, Muslims, and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. F. E. Peters skillfully unites these moving ...
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    372,96 €

  • Mecca
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities--and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it, and countless pilgrims and travelers--many of them European Christians in disguise--have left behind lively and well-publicized accounts of life in Mecca and its associated shrine-city of Medina, where the Prophet lies bu...
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    286,72 €

  • The Monotheists
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    The world’s three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstr...
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    56,70 €

  • The Monotheists
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    The world’s three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstr...
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    56,38 €

  • Islam
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and Muslims not only worshipped the same God, but shared aspirations, operated in the same social and economic environment, and sometimes lived side by ...
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    56,92 €

  • The Hajj
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world’s cont...
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    78,43 €

  • A Reader on Classical Islam
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an understanding of the Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully combines extensive passages from Islamic texts with a fascinating commentary of his own. In so doing, he presents a substantial body of literary evidence that will enable the reader to grasp the bases of Muslim faith and, more, to get some sense of the breadth a...
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    78,50 €

  • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    F E Peters / FEPeters / Francis Edward Peters
    Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these 'children of Abraham.' Through these extensive passages, and the author’s skil...
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    78,55 €