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Religion of Love - Cyrus Ali Zargar

Religion of Love

Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿAṭṭār
Buch | Softcover
234 Seiten
2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9866-9 (ISBN)
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A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.
Religion of Love explores the life and work of the Persian Sufi poet and sage Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār. ʿAṭṭār changed the face of world literature, leaving his impact on all cultures that have valued Persian Sufi writings. Considered for the first time through the lens of religious studies, ʿAṭṭār's oeuvre offers much to contemporary readers. ʿAṭṭār's poems cast a light on the relationship between revelation and the intellect. They also encourage liberation from self-centeredness through the fiery path of love. Thus, Religion of Love considers one of Persian literature's greatest poets as more than just a poet, but also as a thinker and a commentator on moral psychology, ethics, and the intellectual debates of his age, debates that shed light on today's religious complexities.

Cyrus Ali Zargar is Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism and Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ʿArabi and ʿIraqi.

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Religion of Love

1. Who Was ʿAṭṭār?

2. ʿAṭṭār's Writings

3. The City and the Saint

Part I: Religion

4. Religion, Then and Now

5. Dīn, Dunyā, and the Pious Life

6. Sciences of Empty Reasoning

7. Beyond the Limits of Intelligence

8. The Religion of Old Women

Part II: Love and Infidelity

9. Love Beneath the Cloak of Infidelity

10. The School of Love in History

11. Metaphorical Spaces of Love and Infidelity

12. Finding the Real in Byzantium

Part III: Union

13. ʿAṭṭār and Mystical Experience

14. Ascents to the Real

15. Celestial Journey Literature

16. Union in The Book of Affliction

17. The Source of Affliction

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.1.2025
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Islam
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4384-9866-7 / 1438498667
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9866-9 / 9781438498669
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