本书是一本科学史的经典名著。它名为“科学史”，实际上是一部科学思想的发展史，同时讲述了科学与哲学及宗教在各个历史时期所发生的纠葛。对于了解科学本身深层次的意义及其与哲学、宗教等学科的关系不无裨益。

影片改编自记者塔蒂亚娜•尼古列斯库•布恩的报告文学。该报告文学讲述了一个在2005年驱魔仪式之后去世的老修女的故事。
在影片中，有两个主角，一个叫做阿丽娜，另一个叫做维克琪雅。她们在同一个孤儿院长大。成年之后，维克琪雅觉得修道院是自己心灵的庇护所，于是便去做了一个修女； 而阿丽娜则去了德国。她们已经很久没有联系了，但是她们的命运却因为一桩意外而重新连结到了一起。

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today. Now, in this penetrating book, Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a - the law of the traditional Islamic state - in the modern Muslim world. Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist movements are winning elections on it. Terrorists use it to justify their crimes. What, then, is the shari'a? Given the severity of some of its provisions, why is it popular among Muslims? Can the Islamic state succeed - should it?Feldman reveals how the classical Islamic constitution governed through and was legitimated by law. He shows how executive power was balanced by the scholars who interpreted and administered the shari'a, and how this balance of power was finally destroyed by the tragically incomplete reforms of the modern era. The result has been the unchecked executive dominance that now distorts politics in so many Muslim states.
Feldman argues that a modern Islamic state could provide political and legal justice to today's Muslims, but only if new institutions emerge that restore this constitutional balance of power. "The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State" gives us the sweeping history of the traditional Islamic constitution - its noble beginnings, its downfall, and the renewed promise it could hold for Muslims and Westerners alike.

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黑白粗砺的画面包裹着古老凝重的村庄和纯净澄澈的天空,村人们拥有自己的天使名,模仿施洗者约翰终身佩戴十字架和皮带,他们的日子过得简单而坚定,但对现代生活又有朦胧的向往....片中记录了许多已近失传的宗教仪式和观念,而摄影比大多数文艺片更为出色,昏黄草地上沉默的马和耕牛,光影荡漾的河水掩映着虬蝻的古林,圣洁的钟声与呢喃的吟唱配合诗意的画面带来深沉悠远的意境,令人沉醉其中.