From the beautiful odes of Jalaluddin Rumi to the whimsy of nonsense verse, this is a detailed and readable introduction to the development of Islamic mystical poetry. Annemarie Schimmel has drawn exhaustively on an enormous range of sources both ancient and modern to create this thorough survey of a unique body of literature. Travelling from continent to continent across the centuries, this fascinating 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...
From the beautiful odes of Jalaluddin Rumi to the whimsy of nonsense verse, this is a detailed and readable introduction to the development of Islamic...
Annemarie Schimmel's translation of Nasir-i Khusraw's qasidahs also included a detailed study of the poet and his work. A great thinker of the early Islamic world, whose writing inspired the intellectual development of the Ismaili tradition, Khusraw's poetry--lyrical and deeply human--has so far received surprisingly little attention from translators in the West. The poet's ideas, expressed with consummate artistry, his descriptions of the world around him, and his skill in the use of language and meter, are of great interest to the enthusiast for poetry as well as students of the medieval...
Annemarie Schimmel's translation of Nasir-i Khusraw's qasidahs also included a detailed study of the poet and his work. A great thinker of the early I...
A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetry
A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, includ...
Die Orientalistin Annemarie Schimmel hat auf ihren Reisen durch die arabischen Länder, durch die Türkei, Persien , Indien und Pakistan das unterschiedliche religiöse Brauchtum der islamischen Welt aus unmittelbarer Anschauung kennengelernt. Im vorliegenden Band gibt sie eine umfassende Darstellung aller Aspekte islamischer Religiosität. Sie schreibt über Beschneidungszeremonien, das Verhältnis zu Essen, Alkohol, Sexualität, über die unterschiedlichen Auffassungen von Paradies und Hölle, Tod und Auferstehung und schließlich über die Vorstellung von der Schöpfung und von Gott...
Die Orientalistin Annemarie Schimmel hat auf ihren Reisen durch die arabischen Länder, durch die Türkei, Persien , Indien und Pakistan das unterschi...
§Wer kennt nicht den Taj Mahal, das weltberühmte Mausoleum, das Mogulkaiser Shah Jahan für seine Gattin im indischen Agra erbauen ließ? Dieses Wunderwerk aus weißem Marmor mit filigranen Edelsteinintarsien demonstriert eindrucksvoll den verfeinerten Schönheitssinn der Mogulherrscher. Annemarie Schimmel zeigt, dass Bau- und Gartenarchitektur, Malerei und Literatur, ja, die gesamte höfische Kultur der Moguln, von einem Gestaltungswillen zeugen, der alle Lebensbereiche und insbesondere alles von Menschenhand Geschaffene zu durchdringen suchte.§
§Wer kennt nicht den Taj Mahal, das weltberühmte Mausoleum, das Mogulkaiser Shah Jahan für seine Gattin im indischen Agra erbauen ließ? Dieses Wun...
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.
According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. Instead it is rooted in conventions and rules of prosody, rhymes, and verbal instrumentation....
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly...
