"Brilliant. . . . A powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration." --The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "The book's strength lies in Naipaul's extraordinary ability as a storyteller to draw striking portraits of a cross section of individuals."--The Boston Globe Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among th...(展开全部)

This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal measure. Islam is an Arab rel...(展开全部)

Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."

"Among the Believers" is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simp...(展开全部)

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

迪克·威尔逊（Dick Wilson），国外研究当代中国问题的知名学者。早年就读于英国牛津大学及美国加州大学，获文学、法学硕士，后在研究中国问题的专业性刊物《中国季刊》担任主编。 威尔逊在研究当代中国历史和人物方面有一定造诣，其主要著述有：《毛泽东传》、《周恩来传》、《长征，1935年》、《亚洲的觉醒》、《人类的四分之一》等。

A compact, coherent introduction to the study of rational belief, this text provides points of entry to such areas of philosophy as theory of knowledge, methodology of science, and philosophy of language. The book is accessible to all undergraduates and presupposes no philosophical training.

With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically.

作者簡介 卡蘿‧希爾布蘭登（Carole Hillenbrand） 西元1943年生，英國人，現為愛丁堡大學伊斯蘭與中東學系榮譽教授。早年曾先後就讀於劍橋、牛津與愛丁堡大學，並於1979年以〈賈濟拉史（西元1100年至1150年）：出自伊本・阿茲拉克・法理奇所著編年史（The history of the Jazīra 1100-1150 : the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq Al-Fāriqī）〉一文，獲愛丁堡大學博士學位。其後留校任教，至西元2000年升任該校伊斯蘭歷史之教授一職，直至2008年退休，轉任榮譽教授至今。 在希爾布蘭登教授之學術生涯中，除了英國學術社群，如愛丁堡皇家學會（Royal Society of Edinburgh）、皇家歷史學會（Royal Historical Society）、皇家亞洲學...(展开全部)

作者簡介 卡蘿‧希爾布蘭登（Carole Hillenbrand） 西元1943年生，英國人，現為愛丁堡大學伊斯蘭與中東學系榮譽教授。早年曾先後就讀於劍橋、牛津與愛丁堡大學，並於1979年以〈賈濟拉史（西元1100年至1150年）：出自伊本・阿茲拉克・法理奇所著編年史（The history of the Jazīra 1100-1150 : the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq Al-Fāriqī）〉一文，獲愛丁堡大學博士學位。其後留校任教，至西元2000年升任該校伊斯蘭歷史之教授一職，直至2008年退休，轉任榮譽教授至今。 在希爾布蘭登教授之學術生涯中，除了英國學術社群，如愛丁堡皇家學會（Royal Society of Edinburgh）、皇家歷史學會（Royal Historical Society）、皇家亞洲學...(展开全部)