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The Four Loves (1960) Studies in Words (1960) The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960) An Experiment in Criticism (1961) A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk) They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards .
God's World (Dunyā Allah) is a short story collection by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.The collection consists of fourteen stories, long and short. In his collection, Mahfouz takes the reader through Al-Ḥusayn suburbs and Al-'Abbasiyya streets before stopping on Alexandria’s beach and passing through the cemeteries before taking them to a wedding, leading out of a mosque, and finally ...
"The Birthday of the World" – June 2000 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story depicts a society where the hereditary rulers are "God", and how the society is disrupted from inside and outside. The situation has parallels to that of Incan civilization and the coming of the Europeans. "Paradises Lost" – First publication ...
For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world. One World announced Thursday that Coates' “The Message” will be published Oct. 1.
The Maasai Creed is a creed composed in 1960 by the Maasai people of East Africa in collaboration with missionaries from the Congregation of the Holy Ghost.An early publication of the Maasai Creed appears in Fr. Vincent J. Donovan, "Christianity Rediscovered", in which Donovan tells of his work among the Maasai through which they developed a contextualized understanding of Christianity.
Commentary on a saying of Saná’í, and a Discourse on a Tradition of the Prophet concerning the jealousy of God; The harmfulness of being honoured by the people “Whatsoever God wills cometh to pass” The Story of the Harper; Explanation of a Tradition of the Prophet concerning Divine inspiration; A Story of ‘A’isha and the Prophet
The story imagines that a series of historical Hasidic leaders each followed a 3-step ritual for accomplishing the rescue of his respective community through a miracle. The founder of the tradition was Yisroel ben Eliezer ( Baal Shem Tov and the three steps were to go to a specific area of a forest to meditate, say a specific prayer and light a ...