Caryn Jenner: DK Readers L2: Pocahontas

DK Readers L2: Pocahontas


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In this book, children learn the story of Pocahontas. Famous for helping maintain peace between the English colonists and Native Americans, this brave Indian woman befriended the settlers at Jamestown, saving the life of their leader, Captain John Smith, whom she later married.

Just as Mrs. Mouse kisses baby mouse goodnight, he cries, Mother, Mother, I want another! His concerned mama rushes off to invite other mothers Mrs. Duck, Mrs. Frog, Mrs. Pig, and Mrs. Donkey to help put her son to bed. But baby mouse doesn t want another mother. Will Mrs. Mouse discover what her son really wants? This well-illustrated treasury of practical and ornamental knots ranges from simple-to-make squares, reefs, half-hitches, and bow-lines, to intricate rope-work projects, such as single and tucked crowns, rope buckles, and cask slings. Detailed instructions accompany the 148 drawings, which show how each knot, tie, or splice is formed, as well as its appearance when complete. Few forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam's deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world. In his translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus, Sherman A. Jackson demonstrates that violent, lax, or rigid readings of the texts of Islam are just as much a result of the state of spiritual health, awareness, and fortitude of those who read and deploy them as they are of the substance of the Qur'an, Sunna, and the teachings of Islam's sages. Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus shows the effort of a renowned Sufi master (d. 1309 CE) to circumvent the controversies and misunderstandings concerning Sufism to explain DK Readers L2: Pocahontas download book Islam's tradition of devotional rectitude, spiritual refinement, and purification of the self to the everyday Muslim.


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Author: Caryn Jenner
Number of Pages: 32 pages
Published Date: 21 Sep 2009
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780756656119
Download Link: Click Here
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