As a means of introducing readers to the beauty and spirituality of the Quran, Michael Sells has translated and interpreted the short suras, or poetic chapters, that stand at the end of the Quran. The suras selected for this text represent Muhammad's early revelations.
The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old adversaries. It is, he says, a systematic ...
Not since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. As conflicts continue to proliferate around the globe, the perception of a colossal, unyielding, and unavoidable struggle between Islam and the West has intensified. These ...
This text examines a mode of mystical discourse, "apophasis", which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this study of apophasis in Greek, Christian and ...
In one series, the original writings of the universally knowledge teachers of the Catholic protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.
Sensuous,spiritual, and ethereal, this selection of works by the prominent Andalusian Sufi mystic and poet Ab al-Hasan al-Shushtar (1212-1269) will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature.
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