Author: Lourdes Maria Alvarez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403975614
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author explores the Andalusian mystic popular songs used to resist the Islamic fundamentalist heterodoxy advanced in response to the Christian reconquista.
The Vernacular Mystic Poetry of Islam Spain
Author: Lourdes Maria Alvarez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403975614
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author explores the Andalusian mystic popular songs used to resist the Islamic fundamentalist heterodoxy advanced in response to the Christian reconquista.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403975614
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author explores the Andalusian mystic popular songs used to resist the Islamic fundamentalist heterodoxy advanced in response to the Christian reconquista.
Abu Al-Ḥasan Al-Shushtarī
Author: ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh Shushtarī
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809105829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mystic and poet Abū al-Hasan al-Shushtarī (1212-1269) remains a towering figure in North African Sufism. His verses are still well loved and often recited, and his songs are arguably the most vibrant element of Islamic Spain's cultural legacy. He is crucial to an understanding of the history of mysticism in Islamic Spain and North Africa. Yet, he is overlooked by Western scholars and few of his poems have been translated. This book seeks to correct this deficit by (1) setting Shushtarī and his work in the political and intellectual contexts of his time; (2) introducing his thought to an English-speaking audience through a presentation of his poetry. Each of the chapters that presents the poetry starts with a thematic introduction that explores the symbolic, poetic, and doctrinal import of the material that follows. Sensuous and spiritual, erotic and ethereal, this selection of works will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature. +
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809105829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mystic and poet Abū al-Hasan al-Shushtarī (1212-1269) remains a towering figure in North African Sufism. His verses are still well loved and often recited, and his songs are arguably the most vibrant element of Islamic Spain's cultural legacy. He is crucial to an understanding of the history of mysticism in Islamic Spain and North Africa. Yet, he is overlooked by Western scholars and few of his poems have been translated. This book seeks to correct this deficit by (1) setting Shushtarī and his work in the political and intellectual contexts of his time; (2) introducing his thought to an English-speaking audience through a presentation of his poetry. Each of the chapters that presents the poetry starts with a thematic introduction that explores the symbolic, poetic, and doctrinal import of the material that follows. Sensuous and spiritual, erotic and ethereal, this selection of works will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature. +
A Cultural History of the Arabic Language
Author: Sharron Gu
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.
The Vampire Tarot
Author: Robert Michael Place
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250102804
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Vampire Tarot ties the tales and mythic figures associated with the vampire legend to the equally iconographic figures and forms of the tarot. This book explores the history of the vampire starting with Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, Dracula, as well as those writings that inspired Stoker and the vampire lore that derived from it. Stoker and his most famous work were both closely tied to the classic Rider-Waite-Coleman tarot. Now, author-illustrator Robert M. Place brings these two mythic traditions together with this extensively researched book that guides the reader through the subtleties and parallels within The Vampire Tarot, providing a guide for getting the most out of reading. Sure to delight not only tarot devotees but the general fan of the vampire mythos as well.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250102804
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Vampire Tarot ties the tales and mythic figures associated with the vampire legend to the equally iconographic figures and forms of the tarot. This book explores the history of the vampire starting with Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, Dracula, as well as those writings that inspired Stoker and the vampire lore that derived from it. Stoker and his most famous work were both closely tied to the classic Rider-Waite-Coleman tarot. Now, author-illustrator Robert M. Place brings these two mythic traditions together with this extensively researched book that guides the reader through the subtleties and parallels within The Vampire Tarot, providing a guide for getting the most out of reading. Sure to delight not only tarot devotees but the general fan of the vampire mythos as well.
The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature
Author: Gloria Maité Hernández
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004509569
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This critical survey examines the work of twentieth and early twenty-first century scholars about Spanish mystical literature. It particularly attends to how these scholars’ ideas were influenced by their notions of mysticism and Spain’s contested relationship to the Orient.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004509569
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This critical survey examines the work of twentieth and early twenty-first century scholars about Spanish mystical literature. It particularly attends to how these scholars’ ideas were influenced by their notions of mysticism and Spain’s contested relationship to the Orient.
The Poetry of Kabbalah
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300169167
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Introduces renderings of, and commentary on, Kabbalistic verse that emerged directly from Jewish mysticism and that reveals the foundations of both language and existence itself.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300169167
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Introduces renderings of, and commentary on, Kabbalistic verse that emerged directly from Jewish mysticism and that reveals the foundations of both language and existence itself.
Medieval Islamic Civilization
Author: Josef W. Meri
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the seventh and sixteenth century. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, art history, history, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. This reference provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization including the many scientific, artistic, and religious developments as well as all aspects of daily life and culture. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit www.routledge-ny.com/middleages/Islamic.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the seventh and sixteenth century. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, art history, history, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. This reference provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization including the many scientific, artistic, and religious developments as well as all aspects of daily life and culture. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit www.routledge-ny.com/middleages/Islamic.
2007
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
Encyclopedia of Monasticism
Author: William M. Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113678716X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2000
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113678716X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2000
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
Author: Sebastian Günther
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1549
Book Description
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies. Unparalleled and unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, Roads to Paradise promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology for the years to come.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1549
Book Description
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies. Unparalleled and unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, Roads to Paradise promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology for the years to come.