Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: New York Public Library
Publisher: New York? : s.n.
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Saʻdī
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Sufi thought at its best. Sadis Scroll of Wisdom is a veritable mine of spiritual thought at the highest level. Each verse a gem of wisdom never to be forgotten.

Author: Sadi
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3986472606
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Scroll of Wisdom Sadi - This rare book separate from the widely-available Gulistan and Bustan is a small volume of poetry embodying precepts which would do no discredit to the philosophy of the 21st Century CE. Concise and elegant, the work is most popular throughout the length and breadth of the Persian-speaking East.In addition to beauty of diction, it is written in a metre which flows in easy cadence, and fixes the words of the poem on the mind. Hence the lines are committed to memory to an extent that is probably not surpassed by any work in the Persian language. Lines from Sadis poems are still commonly used in conversations by Iranians today.

Author: Y. M. Nawabi
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Princess Zeb-un-Nissa (daughter of Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan)
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Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Onno Oerlemans
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547420
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.

Author: Maslamah ibn Aḥmad Majrīṭī
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Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671561
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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"Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him--rocky and harsh, full of original imagery and barbed wit, and yet no one surpassed him for the limpid beauty of his devotional verse. His poetry is at once a record of the inner life of a tormented poet and a monument to the Judeo-Arabic culture that produced him. This book contains the most extensive collection of Ibn Gabirol's poetry ever published in English.