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  1. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
    Published: [1993]; ©1993
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of... more

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    In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet and the "undoubted head of English letters" (Emerson). His vivid portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon—just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history—made On Heroes a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution.In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources

     

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  2. "Wärest du nicht..." Preisung des Propheten Muhammad im Mevlûd-ı Keşfî
    Analyse eines osmanischen Werkes der Mystik
    Author: Mete, Denis
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  AV Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783639467024; 3639467027
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    9783639467024
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Islam; (VLB-WN)1569: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprachen, Sonstige Literaturen; Sufismus; Türkei; Dichtung; muhammed; Osmanisch; Derwisch; Riten; mevlid
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