The Keeper of Stations (Paperback)

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Editorial: Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. The one thing that cannot be taken from you What remains when everything else is stripped away?In 1354, one of the greatest minds of the medieval Islamic world - a Supreme Judge who had shaped the theology of an empire - sat in a fortress cell, stripped of his title and his freedom. He kept writing. Adud al-Din al-Iji understood something that most of us spend our entire lives searching for: that the knowledge we build with love and rigor, the understanding we fight to earn - this is the one possession that no prison, no political reversal, no catastrophe can reach. His masterwork, the Kitab al-Mawaqif - The Book of Stations - became one of the most studied theological texts in Islamic history. Generations of scholars from Persia to Istanbul to Delhi argued with its pages. Seven centuries later, its questions are still alive. The Keeper of Stations tells the extraordinary story of the man behind that text: his formation under great teachers in the dying days of the Ilkhanate, his unlikely friendship with the poet Hafez, his rise to the highest judicial office in the land, and the quiet, devastating years of imprisonment from which he never stopped working. This is not a book about medieval history for its own sake. It is a book about what it means to build something that outlasts you - and what gives a human life its deepest stability when the world refuses to cooperate. Inside, you will discover: The ideas that allowed al-Iji to maintain intellectual clarity and peace through political exile and imprisonment - and how they apply to modern life The profound debates between Ash'arite theology and Islamic philosophy - told not as dry doctrine but as living intellectual drama The extraordinary milieu of medieval Shiraz: a city where theologians, poets, astronomers, and viziers moved in overlapping worlds of brilliant friendship and dangerous rivalry How the Mawaqif traveled across seven centuries and three continents, shaping students who never met its authorWhat one fourteenth-century scholar's life can teach modern readers about building a life of meaning that survives uncertainty Begin your own station. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
The Keeper of Stations (Paperback)
Autor
Narin Hikma
Editorial
Independently Published
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798259103542

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