[PDF.08us] Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi (Studies in Comparative Religion)

Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi (Studies in Comparative Religion)

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 | #3545888 in Books |  2011-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x.75l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Puts to rest many fundamental misunderstandings|By Basil|This is an excellent study that clarifies misunderstandings regarding the nature of "erotic" Sufi poetry that have persisted all too long in the academy. Zargar demonstrates that such poetry is neither lustful nor lascivious, but springs instead from the witness of Divine beauty in its self-disclosures in form and matter.| |"This is an excellent addition to the study of Sufi poetry in Arabic and Persian and a fine defense of the notion that such poetry needs to be situated within the conceptual universe of the poets. The author makes deft use of both primary and secondary sou

Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts, Cyrus Ali Zargar explores the theoretical and poetic pronouncements of two major Muslim mystics, Muhyi al-Din ibn al-‘Arabi (d. 1240) and Fakhr al-Din ‘Iraqi (d. 1289), under the premise that behind any literary tradition exist organic aesthetic values. The complex ...

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