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    Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if Islam was born not in the desert but in the church?When the Christians of Najran came before Muhammad and said, "We were Muslims before you came" - was that courtesy, or were they naming a forgotten kinship? Today the two religions face each other as strangers; yet both came through the same centuries, the same languages, the same battles over the one God. Their scriptures name the same prophets, hallow the same cities, carry the name of the same God - and still the road between them is held to be closed. Seventh-century Arabia was no empty stage: monasteries and bishoprics, banished heretics, hymns crossing the desert. This book follows that sentence from Najran and opens the files of the forgotten kinship, one by one.At the heart of the book stands a single word: hanif. In Syriac, anpa was a slur; the church pressed that stamp on those it counted as heretics. The Quran took the same word and made it a title of honour for the religion of Abraham. To understand how a slur became an honour is to find the corridor between the two religions; for history is a memory in which the meanings of words change hands between cultures. The book follows the first hanifs' distance from idolatry, their sense of justice, their mercy toward the orphan and the poor; to be hanif is not a title stamped on a card but the face of faith turned toward the right way. Following the trail of a single word sometimes teaches more than reading the archive of an empire.Then the long line opens: Paul's break with the apostles and the widening rift between him and Jerusalem; the entry of Philo's Logos into Christian doctrine; the traces the Roman mysteries of Mithras left in the language of the rite; the voices of the Trinitarian quarrel silenced at Nicaea; the fight of Arius, "the most fruitful heretic in history," and of Nestorius over the one God; Muhammad's letter to Heraclius and his bond with the Negus of Abyssinia; the name "Allah," already spoken in pre-Islamic Mecca; the hanifs from Waraqa to Zayd, who turned to the one God before the revelation; the counterparts of the ritual prayer in Syriac Christian worship. At every station the same line appears: Islam can be read not as a rupture with the monotheistic Christian currents of late antiquity but as their natural continuation.This is not a book of polemic. It works with the tools of Semitic philology and with the earliest sources; it rests on texts, not on chains of transmission woven later. In every chapter the reader sees the source: Paul's letters, the records of the church fathers, Syriac baptismal and prayer texts, the Quran's own testimony. It treats the history of faith not as closed islands but as crossing paths and shared inheritances. It passes no verdict; it suspends assumption and follows the evidence - not the dogma.To the Christian reader this book returns a forgotten branch of his own history: the monotheist vein the church suppressed. To the Muslim reader it shows the pre-Islamic life of his own vocabulary: the family tree of the name "Allah," of the prayer, of hanif-ness before the revelation. And to the reader with no tie to religion it tells one of the great transmission stories of the world: how a faith flowed into a language, a language into an empire, an empire into a new religion. In an age that sets the two religions against each other, reading their shared family tree is equally uncomfortable and equally freeing for both sides. This book takes no one's religion away; it introduces everyone to the history of their own words.Readers who love Tom Holland's accounts of late antiquity, or Karen Armstrong's comparative histories of religion, will feel at home here; those who enjoy books that follow one word across the centuries will find philological detective work. When the book closes, that sentence from Najran reads Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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    Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Die letzte Oktoberwoche. Nach dreijaehriger Sondergenehmigung steigt Sinan Arslan am fuenften Tag ins unterste Stockwerk des Vatikanarchivs. Auf der Kiste steht keine Nummer, nur ein verblasstes Wachszeichen. Darin ein Heft, Aramaeisch, kein Kirchenaramaeisch. Auf jeder Seite dasselbe Wort: anhar. In jener Nacht folgt Sinan ueber die Pflastersteine von Trastevere dem Wort in die Wurzel. N-H-R: aramaeisch nahra Fluss, syrisch nuhra stroemendes Licht, arabisch nahr, mandaeisch Anhar der heilige Strom. Das venhar aus der Kauthar-Sure - jahrhundertelang als "schlachte" gelesen - stammt aus derselben Wurzel: nicht schlachten sondern oeffnen; nicht schneiden sondern stroemen.Vom Heft aus beginnt das Buch - aber nicht vom Vatikan. Der Vatikan ist eine Linse: das Schaufenster fuer den Aufbau des institutionalisierten Heiligen. Rom liebt den Stein: Tempel, Thron, Gesetz, das Feste. Was fest ist, laesst sich beherrschen und heiligen. Wasser nicht; nur umleiten. Die Koran-Metaphysik ist nicht Stein sondern Bewegung: das Paradies ist ein Ort, unter dem Stroeme fliessen; die Hoelle ist Stillstand. Rom kaempft nicht gegen Ontologien - Rom begraebt sie. Das Buch zeichnet sechs Zuege einer gelenkten Geschichte nach.Erster Zug: die Quelle umstellen. Nicaea 325. Kaiser Konstantin, noch ungetauft und dem Sol Invictus verpflichtet, beruft das Konzil. Dass Arius als Haeretiker gilt, ist bekannt. Dass eine kleine Delegation, "Waechter des leuchtenden Stroms", aus dem Saal gewiesen und an Euphrat und Tigris vertrieben wird, wird nicht gesagt. Zweiter Zug: das Flussbett zeichnen. Rom salbte den Kaiser und band die Kirche an den Staat; die Umayyaden wiederholen den Zug in Damaskus. Dritter Zug: das Wasser trueben. Im fuenften Jahrhundert schreibt der Bischof von Antiochia nach Rom, es gebe "Reste", die in Fluessen taufen; das Edikt Constantius' II. verbietet Versammlungen "von Gruppen, die sich im fliessenden Wasser reinigen". Vierter Zug: den Fluss schliessen. Florenz 1439: Kardinal Isidoros landet mit zweihundert Bewaffneten in Konstantinopel und erzwingt, gegen Hilfe gegen die Osmanen, die Unterwerfung der orthodoxen Kirche. Fuenfter: den Tropfen zerstreuen, der Erwartete: der Weg des Wassers - das Wasser, das an den Raendern noch fliesst.Danach steigt das Buch in die Philologie. Haette die Sure schlachten befohlen, standen harte Worte bereit: udhiyya, dhabh. Er ruft sie nicht; er sagt venhar, und das haelt jahrhundertelang, weil die Wurzel an der Stroemung haengt. Das Skelett der fruehen Mushaf-Schriften, ohne Punkte und Vokale, laesst dieselben Buchstaben "venhar" (schlachte) oder "wa-anhar" (und Stroeme) lesen. Die festgesetzte Lesart dient stets der Macht. In Suedmesopotamien, wo das Mandaeische noch gesprochen wird, traegt dieselbe Wurzel weiter - lebendes Archiv der aus Nicaea vertriebenen Zeugenschaft. Vatikan-Heft und Suempfe Suediraks rufen einander.Dies ist keine Polemik. Der Text positioniert sich gegen keine Person, kein Institut, keinen Glauben; er weigert nur den Gedanken, unbefragbar zu sein. Nietzsche fragte nicht nach Gottes Wort, sondern nach dem Gewicht der Stimme, die in Gottes Namen spricht; der Titel verneigt sich vor jenem Werk. Wer Ecos Der Name der Rose liebt, erkennt Sinans Schritt; wer Pagels' verdraengte fruehchristliche Lektueren kennt, riecht jenes Aramaeisch. Am naechsten Morgen kehrt Sinan zurueck; das Heft ist aus der Kiste weg. Nicht verloren, ausgeloescht - der aelteste Reflex des Archivs. Was stroemt, lebt wirklich; was erstarrt, scheint nur zu leben. Ein Heft im Vatikanarchiv, ein Wort auf jeder Seite: anhar. Von Nicaea 325 bis Florenz 1439, vom venhar der Kauthar-Sure bis zu den Mandaeern im Suedirak - sechs historische Zuege, mit denen das lebendige Heilige zum E Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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    Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Time is not merely a cold gear turning in the hand of a watch; it is a living heart beating in our cells, our dreams, and our folk songs." Since the dawn of existence, humanity has sought order within the chaotic dance of the stars. This quest has evolved into a monumental story of mastery-one where the solar calendars of Ancient Egypt, the intricate cycles of the Chinese zodiac, the lunar rhythms of the Hijri calendar, and the cosmic long counts of the Mayans and Aztecs all collide. From Caesar's desperate calendar reforms to the brief madness of the French Revolutionary calendar, and finally to the absolute precision of atomic clocks, civilizations built these systems not just to measure the day, but to tame the unknown. In Calendar Systems of Humanity and Time, Hueseyin Dogan invites you to break free from being a slave to seconds and to listen to the magnificent symphony of the cosmos. Within these pages, you will discover the mathematical genius and dusty history behind humanity's greatest calendars, while exploring how time itself is etched into our very flesh and bone-from the biological clocks hidden deep within our cells to the metabolic secrets of the Seven Sleepers' centuries-long slumber. We all walk under the same sky, following the rhythms of different calendar systems, yet moving toward the same common destiny-the other door of that "inn with two doors." When you finish this book, you will see more than just the hour; you will witness a multi-billion-year legacy and the sacred journey in which we travel in a "state unknown to us. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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    Published by HUSEY¿N DOGAN Jun 2026, 2026

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'To give a thing a name is often not to understand it, but to set a gravestone upon it.'For thirty years you held your lantern to the darkness of others - but have you ever once turned the light on yourself That place where you felt whole: was it wholeness, or only learning not to hear the voices inside you This book offers no diagnosis. It confronts the man who made the diagnoses with what he buried beneath his own names. The Thinker will not be quiet, the Craver is never satisfied, and there is a third voice he has spent a lifetime refusing to hear - and between them Selen, who may be memory, conscience, or temptation.What does a person hear when he stops reassuring himself When did we learn to call deafness peace, and silence calm The Mirror of the Void turns its lantern toward the thin crack between desire and instinct - and warns that whoever dares to look there can never again remain whole in the old way.…

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    Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Was waere, wenn der Islam nicht in der Wueste entstanden waere, sondern in der Kirche?Als die Christen von Najran vor Mohammed traten und sagten: "Wir waren Muslime, bevor ihr kamt" - war das blosse Hoeflichkeit, oder benannten sie eine vergessene Verwandtschaft? Heute stehen sich die beiden Religionen wie Fremde gegenueber; doch beide kamen durch dieselben Jahrhunderte, dieselben Sprachen, dieselben Kaempfe um den einen Gott. Dieses Buch folgt jenem Satz und oeffnet die Akten der vergessenen Verwandtschaft, eine nach der anderen.Im Herzen des Buches steht ein einziges Wort: Hanif. Im Syrischen war anpa ein Schimpfwort; die Kirche drueckte diesen Stempel denen auf, die sie fuer Haeretiker hielt. Der Koran nahm dasselbe Wort und machte daraus einen Ehrentitel der Religion Abrahams. Wer versteht, wie aus einem Schimpfwort eine Ehre wurde, findet den Gang zwischen den beiden Religionen; Geschichte ist ein Gedaechtnis, in dem Wortbedeutungen zwischen Kulturen den Besitzer wechseln. Es folgt der Distanz der ersten Hanifen zum Goetzendienst, ihrem Sinn fuer Gerechtigkeit, ihrer Barmherzigkeit gegenueber Waise und Armem; Hanif zu sein ist kein gestempelter Titel, sondern das dem rechten Weg zugewandte Gesicht des Glaubens. Der Spur eines einzigen Wortes zu folgen lehrt bisweilen mehr, als das Archiv eines Kaiserreichs zu lesen.Dann oeffnet sich die lange Linie: die Trennung des Paulus von den Aposteln und der wachsende Riss zwischen ihm und Jerusalem; der Einzug von Philons Logos in die christliche Gotteslehre; die Spuren, die die Mithras-Mysterien Roms in der Sprache des Ritus hinterliessen; die in Nizaea erstickten Stimmen des Trinitaetsstreits; der Kampf des Arius, "des fruchtbarsten Haeretikers der Geschichte", und des Nestorius um den einen Gott; Mohammeds Brief an Herakleios und sein Band mit dem Negus von Abessinien; der Name "Allah", im vorislamischen Mekka laengst im Gebrauch; die Hanifen von Waraqa bis Zayd, vor der Offenbarung dem einen Gott zugewandt; die Entsprechungen des Gebetsritus im syrisch-christlichen Gottesdienst. An jeder Station dieselbe Linie: Der Islam laesst sich nicht als Bruch mit den monotheistischen christlichen Stroemungen der Spaetantike lesen, sondern als ihre natuerliche Fortsetzung.Dies ist keine Polemik. Es arbeitet mit den Werkzeugen der semitischen Philologie und den fruehesten Quellen; es stuetzt sich auf Texte, nicht auf spaeter geknuepfte UEberlieferungsketten. In jedem Kapitel steht die Quelle: die Briefe des Paulus, die Protokolle der Kirchenvaeter, syrische Tauf- und Gebetstexte, das eigene Zeugnis des Korans. Es behandelt die Glaubensgeschichte nicht als abgeschlossene Inseln, sondern als sich kreuzende Wege und geteilte Erbschaften. Es faellt kein Urteil; es setzt die Vorurteile aus und folgt den Belegen - nicht dem Dogma.Dem christlichen Leser gibt es einen vergessenen Zweig der eigenen Geschichte zurueck: die von der Kirche unterdrueckte monotheistische Ader. Dem muslimischen Leser zeigt es das vorislamische Leben des eigenen Wortschatzes: den Stammbaum des Namens "Allah", des Gebets, des Hanifentums vor der Offenbarung. Dem Leser ohne Bindung an eine Religion erzaehlt es eine der grossen Weitergabegeschichten der Welt: Glaube floss in Sprache, Sprache in ein Reich, ein Reich in eine neue Religion. Wo die beiden Religionen gegeneinander gestellt werden, ist ihr gemeinsamer Stammbaum fuer beide Seiten gleich unbequem und gleich befreiend. Dieses Buch nimmt niemandem seine Religion; es macht jeden mit der Geschichte der eigenen Woerter bekannt.Wer Tom Hollands Spaetantike liebt oder Karen Armstrongs vergleichende Religionsgeschichte, ist hier zu Hause; wer Buecher mag, die einem einzigen Wort durch die Jahrhunderte folgen, bekommt philologische Detektivarbeit. Wenn es sich schliesst, liest sich jener Satz von Najran anders. Vielleich Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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    Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if Islam was born not in the desert but in the church?When the Christians of Najran came before Muhammad and said, "We were Muslims before you came" - was that courtesy, or were they naming a forgotten kinship? Today the two religions face each other as strangers; yet both came through the same centuries, the same languages, the same battles over the one God. Their scriptures name the same prophets, hallow the same cities, carry the name of the same God - and still the road between them is held to be closed. Seventh-century Arabia was no empty stage: monasteries and bishoprics, banished heretics, hymns crossing the desert. This book follows that sentence from Najran and opens the files of the forgotten kinship, one by one.At the heart of the book stands a single word: hanif. In Syriac, anpa was a slur; the church pressed that stamp on those it counted as heretics. The Quran took the same word and made it a title of honour for the religion of Abraham. To understand how a slur became an honour is to find the corridor between the two religions; for history is a memory in which the meanings of words change hands between cultures. The book follows the first hanifs' distance from idolatry, their sense of justice, their mercy toward the orphan and the poor; to be hanif is not a title stamped on a card but the face of faith turned toward the right way. Following the trail of a single word sometimes teaches more than reading the archive of an empire.Then the long line opens: Paul's break with the apostles and the widening rift between him and Jerusalem; the entry of Philo's Logos into Christian doctrine; the traces the Roman mysteries of Mithras left in the language of the rite; the voices of the Trinitarian quarrel silenced at Nicaea; the fight of Arius, "the most fruitful heretic in history," and of Nestorius over the one God; Muhammad's letter to Heraclius and his bond with the Negus of Abyssinia; the name "Allah," already spoken in pre-Islamic Mecca; the hanifs from Waraqa to Zayd, who turned to the one God before the revelation; the counterparts of the ritual prayer in Syriac Christian worship. At every station the same line appears: Islam can be read not as a rupture with the monotheistic Christian currents of late antiquity but as their natural continuation.This is not a book of polemic. It works with the tools of Semitic philology and with the earliest sources; it rests on texts, not on chains of transmission woven later. In every chapter the reader sees the source: Paul's letters, the records of the church fathers, Syriac baptismal and prayer texts, the Quran's own testimony. It treats the history of faith not as closed islands but as crossing paths and shared inheritances. It passes no verdict; it suspends assumption and follows the evidence - not the dogma.To the Christian reader this book returns a forgotten branch of his own history: the monotheist vein the church suppressed. To the Muslim reader it shows the pre-Islamic life of his own vocabulary: the family tree of the name "Allah," of the prayer, of hanif-ness before the revelation. And to the reader with no tie to religion it tells one of the great transmission stories of the world: how a faith flowed into a language, a language into an empire, an empire into a new religion. In an age that sets the two religions against each other, reading their shared family tree is equally uncomfortable and equally freeing for both sides. This book takes no one's religion away; it introduces everyone to the history of their own words.Readers who love Tom Holland's accounts of late antiquity, or Karen Armstrong's comparative histories of religion, will feel at home here; those who enjoy books that follow one word across the centuries will find philological detective work. When the book closes, that sentence from Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…