The late Annemarie Schimmel drew exhaustively on an enourmous range of sources both ancient and modern to create this thorough survey of a unique body of literature. Travelling from continent to continent and across the centuries, this story of Islamic poetry encompasses a wide spectrum of traditions and cultures, from Arabic religious verse to the ecstasies of the persian Sufis and the popular folk poetry of India and Pakistan.
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A thorough survey of mystical poetry in islam, rangin far and wide across the centuries and continents.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Flowers of the Desert: The Development of Arabic Mystical Poetry 2. Tiny Mirros of Divine Beauty: Classical persian Mystical Poetry 3. Sun Triumphal - Love Triumphant: Maulana Rumi and the Metaphors of Love 4. The Voice of Love: Mystical poetry in the Vernaculars 5. God's Beloved and Intercessor for Man: Poetry in Honor of the Prophet Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index of Selected Quotations Index of Proper Names Index of Technical Terms
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781851682744
Publisert
2001-07-01
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oneworld Publications
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Biographical note

Annemarie Schimmel was Professor of Indo-Muslim studies at harvard University for twenty-five years.