Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788183393225
Category : Sufi poetry, Arabic
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Love's Alchemy
Author: Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1577317491
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry. These concise, tightly focused meditations span only a few lines but reveal worlds of meaning. The poems explore many aspects of human life and the spiritual path, but they center on the liberating power of love.
Persian Sufi Poetry
Author: J. T. P. de BruijnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136780564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Hallaj
Author: Husayn ibn Mansur HallajPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137364
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire readers around the world. In Hallaj, Carl W. Ernst offers a definitive collection of 117 of Hallaj’s poems expertly translated for contemporary readers interested in Middle Eastern and Sufi poetry and spirituality. Ernst’s fresh and direct translations reveal Hallaj’s wide range of themes and genres, from courtly love poems to metaphysical reflections on union with God. In a fascinating introduction, Ernst traces Hallaj’s dramatic story within classical Islamic civilization and early Arabic Sufi poetry. Setting himself apart by revealing Sufi secrets to the world, Hallaj was both celebrated and condemned for declaring: “I am the Truth.” Expressing lyrics and ideas still heard in popular songs, the works of Hallaj remain vital and fresh even a thousand years after their composition. They reveal him as a master of spiritual poetry centuries before Rumi, who regarded Hallaj as a model. This unique collection makes it possible to appreciate the poems on their own, as part of the tragic legend of Hallaj, and as a formidable legacy of Middle Eastern culture. The Global Humanities Translation Prize is awarded annually to a previously unpublished translation that strikes the delicate balance between scholarly rigor, aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged by a rotating committee of Northwestern faculty, distinguished international scholars, writers, and public intellectuals. The Prize is organized by the Global Humanities Initiative, which is jointly supported by Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi / Poems
Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy MoorePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411647637
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps."(William Blake) A cooly impassioned, and "pathward" adventurous series of poems joining two modes of enlightenment, Buddhist and Sufi, that may in many ways be parallel-from my sitting with saintly Shunryu Suzuki of the San Francisco Zen Center in the early 60s, and my blessed time with Qutb Shaykh ibn al-Habib of Fez in Meknes, Morocco, in the 1970s, may Allah be pleased with both of them. Are the two protagonists of these poems the main characters in Waiting for Godot, now no longer waiting, but there? Exalted humor lightens our spiritual endeavors.
Islamic Mystical Poetry
Author: Mahmood JamalPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141932244
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that develop many of the central ideas of Sufism: the Lover, the Beloved, the Wine, and the Tavern; while others are more personal and echo the poet's battle to leave earthly love behind. These translations capture the passion of the original poetry and are accompanied by an introduction on Sufism and the common themes apparent in the works. This edition also includes suggested further reading.
Death Before Dying
Author: Sultan BahuPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520212428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Death Before Dying offers a window on the Sufi mystical tradition, providing a rare glimpse into the religious lives of rural Muslims during the days of the Mughal Empire. The poetry of Sultan Bahu has inspired Sufis of the Punjab for countless generations, embodying essential characteristics of the mystical tradition, especially in its emphasis on complete and unrestricted devotion to God coupled with skepticism toward the formal, legalistic, and institutionalized elements of organized religion.
The Rumi Daybook
Author: Kabir HelminskiPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834827735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The wisdom of the great Sufi master comes to life in this compendium of 365 Rumi poems and writings for daily contemplation and inspiration My heart wandered through the world constantly seeking after my cure, but the sweet and delicious water of life had to break through the granite of my heart. When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred years ago in a medieval Persian world that bears little resemblance to ours makes their uncanny resonance to us today just that much more remarkable. Here is a treasury of daily wisdom from this most beloved of all the Sufi masters—both his prose and his ecstatic poetry—that you can use to start every day for a year, or that you can dip into for inspiration any time you need to break through the granite of your heart.
Author: ḤāfiẓA Lost Sufi
Author: Hassan AjamiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781939625892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a collection of philosophical poemsexpressing the dilemmas facing a modern Sufi. It conveysdifferent ideas of Sufism, such as the oneness of beingand the illusion of the universe. The main character ofthis book is a lost Sufi who becomes one with everythingand hence loses one's distinctive identity. The Sufi istorn between his or her infinite selves, and lost betweenthe genes of cavemen and memes of modern men.Consequently, the lost Sufi criticizes modernity, andportrays civilization as being based on terror.
