Sentence examples for collection of discourses from inspiring English sources

Islam, Dr. Abu Zayd said, should be understood in terms of its historical, geographic and cultural background, adding that "pure Islam" did not exist and that the Koran was "a collection of discourses".

Difficulty also remains in determining Charron's actual views, for, although his Discours chrestiens (1600; "Christian Discourses"), a collection of 16 discourses on various aspects of Christian life, and his own religious life indicate that his Christianity was sincere, portions of De la sagesse suggest that it was not.

A plenitude of literary, social and political concepts have provided distinct answers to classical and current cultural debates, prompting us to run a study on current cultural morphology, a culture in which literature no longer preserves its esthetical foundation (traditional and canonical), becoming a mosaic of textual comments, a collection of identitary and affiliation discourses.

The notions of "truth" and "objective" knowledge and facts within science, while largely still exalted in the mainstream, have been advanced by critical thinkers to be more an "intersubjective" consensus among interested parties who at best remove their egos but rarely abandon their most basic biases favoring a shared reality from the collection of data and shared discourses.

Wu ye zhi men (Midnight's Gate), a collection of essays weaving political discourse with stories of his travels, was released in 2005.

Others are collections of sermon-like discourses, written explicitly for the reader's spiritual edification.

He discourses upon his collection of Indian art, including a portrait of Shah Jahan.

The Discourses are a collection of explanations and elucidations that Meher Baba has given on many topics that concern the advancement of the spiritual aspirant.

In 1805 a Boston publisher brought out "Discourses on Davila," a collection of essays he had written in 1790-91, when he was vice president.

But it was only a year ago that a small, determined collection of idealists changed the focus of the national discourse from austerity to inequality and introduced terms like 99percentt into the vocabulary.

His major books included "Xenophon's Socratic Discourse," "Thoughts on Machiavelli" and a collection of essays on the ancient Greeks, "The City and Man".