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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.

Table of Contents
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

As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam

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      Publisher Oneworld Publications
      Published 1 July 2001
      ISBN-13 9781851682744
      978-1851682744
      ISBN-10 1851682740

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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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