The Idea of A UniversityThe Idea of a University, is an eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . Only one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an 'epoch' in

which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield

died when Aristotle was a child

Rumi's poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual

and for the student of late Greek thought

this tool kit for speakers takes you through an in-depth analysis of these historically significant speeches and the secrets of their eloquent effectiveness

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may Allah bless him and grant him peace

listening and speaking

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But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation

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