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The Confessions of Al Ghazzali: Ghazzali’s Search for Truth
This brief treatise translated into English for the first time by Claud Field and published in 1909, is filled with illumination analogies and clear explanations that will please the student of Islam and the academically curious. Islamic theologian, philosopher, and mystic Abou Hamid Muhammed Ibn Muhammad Al Ghazzali (1058-1111) is widely considered to be one of Islam's most preeminent scholars. A prolific writer, Al Ghazzali's work include treatises theology, Sufism, philosophy, jurisprudence, and logic.
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World and Other Writings
Her poems, her plays, her philosophies, her orations, her discourses. All these folios and quartos in which, she protested, her real life was enshrined. Moulder in the gloom of public libraries, or are decanted into tiny thimbles which hold sex drops of profusion. ,Virginia Woolf, writing about Margaret CavendishIn light of recent critical interest in Utopian and futuristic writing, as well as historical figures in women's literary works, the reissue of the Description ofThe New Blazing World, first published in 1666 and one of the earliest examples of science fiction writing, is essential. It tells the story of a voyage to another work of speculative science in which women effortlessly rise to absolute power and sexual roles blur. Cavendish, as a character in the fantasy herself, emerges as an ironically self designated hermaphroditic spectacle who dramatizes a heroic figure of woman, ingeniously turning patriarchalized scenes of power and seduction to her own benefit. Dismissed by Pepsys as mad, conceited, and ridiculous, Cavendish lived a life devoted to excess, and the number of elaborately produced books she wrote and published at her own expense during her twenty year career became her most radical and deliberate break from contemporary social etiquette.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
They sacrifice their owne children to the divell before baptisme, holding them up in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines ? They use incestuous adulterie with spirits ? They eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of men and children openlie ? They kill mens cattell ? They bewitch mens corne ? They ride and flie in the aire, bring stormes, make tempests ? They use venerie with a divell called Incubus and have children by them, which become the best witches ?In 1584, when there were few who would even defend witches against these charges, Reginald Scot went one step further. He actually set out to prove that witches did not and could not exist! King James later found Scot's opinion so heretical that he ordered all copies of his book to be burned. But so rich and full of data on the charges against witches, on witch trials and on the actual practice of the black arts was Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft that it remained a much-used source throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is still one of the few primary sources for the study of witchcraft today.At the heart of Scot's book are stories and charges pulled from the writers of the Inquisition about the supposed nature of witches. Scot believed that the utter absurdity of the facts would be enough to stop belief in witchcraft forever. But he also goes on to give opinions of medical authorities, interviews with those convicted of witchcraft, and details about the two-faced practices of those in charge of the inquisitions to show even further why the charges of witchcraft were simply not true. In later chapters Scot details the other side of the question through a study of the black arts that are not purely imaginary. He discusses poisoners, jugglers, conjurers, charmers, soothsayers, figure-casters, dreamers, alchemists, and astrologers and, in turn, sets down the actual practices of each group and shows how the acts depend not upon the devil but upon either trickery or skill. In the process, many of the magician's secrets and much other folk and professional lore of the time is made available to the reader of today.Shortly after the Spanish Inquisition, directly in the wake of Sprenger and Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum, during the great upsurge of witch trials in Britain, Scot was a direct witness to the witchmonger in one of witch-hunting's bloodiest eras. Whatever your interest in witchcraft ? either historical, psychological, or sympathetic ? Scot, in his disproof, tells you much more about the subject than the many, many contemporary writers on the other side of the question.
The Mirror of Alchimy
"The Mirror of Alchimy" by Roger Bacon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Poetics of Aristotle
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The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
"The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians" by Xenophon (translated by Henry Graham Dakyns). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Curtezan unmasked; or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life / With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust.