Thursday, January 29, 2015

Masjid St Petersburg Russia

 

St Petersburg adalah sebuah kota di Russia. Terdapat sebuah masjid di St Petersburg dengan kapasiti boleh memuat 5,000 jemaah. Rekabentuk binaan Masjid St Petersburg menyerupai bangunan Gur-e-Amir (binaan makam Tamerlane), Samarkand. Masjid St Petersburg mula dibina pada 1910 dan mula diguna pakai pada 1913. Ianya yang siap dibina sepenuhnya pada 1921. Namun Arkitek Masjid St Petersburg, Nikolai Vasilyev, sememangnya membina masjid SP mengguna rekabentuk Gur-e-Amir (baca wiki).

 

 

Masjid St Petersburg (source - link)

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Gur-e-Amir -Binaan makam Tamerlane

(source - wiki)

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Cambridge History of Islam - Volume 2B


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2008 'The Cambridge History of Islam Vol 2B - The Islamic Society and Civilization'. Buku edited by P M Holt, Ann K S Lambton and Bernard Lewis.


TCHI - Volume 2B

Contents:

Part 8 Islamic Society and Civilization

The geographical setting; The sources of Islamic civilization; Economy, society, institutions; Law and justice; Religion and culture; Mysticism; Revival and reform in Islam; Literature - Arabic literature, Persia literature, Turkish literature, Urdu literature; Art and architecture; Science; Philosophy; Warfare; The transmission of learning and literary influences to western Europe.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Cambridge History of Islam - Volume 2A


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2008 'The Cambridge History of Islam Vol 2A - The Indian Sub-Continent, South East Asia, Africa and and the Muslim West'. Buku edited by P M Holt, Ann K S Lambton and Bernard Lewis.


TCHI - Vol 2A

Contents:

Part 5 The Indian Sub-Continent
Muslim India before the Mughals; India under the Mughals; Appendix - The Sultanate of the Deccan - Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries; The breakdown of traditional society; India and Pakistan;

Part 6 South East Asia
SEA Islam to the eighteenth century; SEA Islam in the nineteenth century;

Part 7 Africa and the Muslim West
North Africa to the sixteenth century; North Africa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; North Africa in the pre-colonial period; North Africa in the period of colonization; The nilotic Sudan; The Western and Central Sudan; The Iberian Peninsula and Sicily.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

The Cambridge History of Islam - Volume 1B


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2008 'The Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1B - The Central Islamic Lands Since 1918'. Buku edited by P M Holt, Ann K S Lambton and Bernard Lewis.


TCHI - Vol 1B

Contents:

Part 4 The Central Islamic Lands in Recent Times

Modern Turkey; The Arab lands; Modern Persia; Islam in the Soviet Union; Communism in the Central Islamic Lands; The political impact of the West; Economic and social change.

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Friday, January 02, 2015

The Cambridge History of Islam - Volume 1A


Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2008 'The Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1A - The Central Islamic Lands From Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War'. Buku edited by P M Holt, Ann K S Lambton and Bernard Lewis.


TCHI - Vol 1A

Contents

Part 1 The Rise and Domination of the Arabs
Pre-Islamic Arabia; Muhammad; The patriarchal and Umayyad caliphates; The Abbasid caliphates.

Part 2 The Coming of the Steppe Peoples
The disintegration of the caliphate in the east; Egypt and Syria; Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks; The emergence of the Ottomans.

Part 3 The Central Islamic Lands in the Ottoman Period
The rise of the Ottoman empire; The heyday and decline of the Ottoman empire; The later Ottoman empire in Rumelia and Anatolia; The later Ottoman empire in Egypt and the fertile crescent; Safavid Persia; Persia - the breakdown of society; Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquests; Appendix - The golden horde and its successors; Tsarist Russia and the Muslims of Central Asia.

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