An Ocean Without Shore basket and prose conveying scientific innovation

and prose conveying scientific innovation

and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder

Van Sertima re-creates some of the most powerful scenes of human history: the launching of the great ships of Mali in 1310 (two hundred master boats and two hundred supply boats)

is out now from Riverhead Books

An Ocean Without Shore basket and prose conveying scientific innovationAn Ocean Without Shore is a study of Ibn Arabi, known in Islam as al Shaykh al Akbar, the Greatest Spiritual Master. In the introduction, Chodkiewicz provides a good deal of documentation for the often heard claim that Ibn Arabi has been the most influential thinker in Islam over the past seven hundred years. He shows that this has been true, not only among the intellectual elite, but also among the common believers. He explains why a few Muslims have