The earliest major Islamic treatise on mystical love, this work reflects a moderate version of the ecstatic mysticism of the Sufi martyr al-Hallaj. Writing around 1000 C.E., the author summarizes the
Aimed at scientists and decision makers responsible for irrigation systems, this text presents methods and software features of a Decision Support System developed for a Mediterranean drought mitigati
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Security Technology, SecTech 2010, and the International Conference on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, DRBC
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications, ASEA 2010, held as part of the Future Generation Information Techn
This translation and study extend our knowlege of the Arabic genre of the maqama by some years. If translations of the genre are lacking, literary critical studies of it are even rarer. Therefore, the
This first part of the autobiography of Dr Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi spans the years until his selection as ruler of Sharjah as a young man of thirty-three. It reveals the emergence of the man and
Around a century ago a Malay poem which tells of a foreigner, always indicated as Sinyor, in Southeast Asia who elopes with Lela Mayang, the wife of a wealthy Chinaman. The latter sets out in pursuit
