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A new, updated edition of this modern classic in religious publishing, capturing the complexity, power and poetry of the early suras of the Qur’anApproaching the Qur’an presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. These early suras contain some of the most powerful, prophetic and revelatory passages in religious history, offering the vision of a meaningf...

A major event in religious publishing, Approaching the Qur¿an captures the complexity, power and poetry of the early suras of the Qur¿an, the sacred scripture of Islam In this second edition, Michael Sells introduces important new translations of Qur¿anic suras and addresses in a new preface the ongoing controversy over teaching about Islam and the Qur¿an in American universities. Approaching the Qur¿an presents brilliant translations of the...

A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.

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A flight of imagination that explores what would happen if literary history had gone just that little bit differently...

A flight of imagination that explores the consequences of fashion history going just that little bit differently...

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Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction/Unsaying 1: Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus 2: The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena 3: Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event 4: Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form5: Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete 6: Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth 7: Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender...

Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction/Unsaying 1: Awakening without Awakener: Apophasis in Plotinus 2: The Nothingness of God in John the Scot Eriugena 3: Ibn Arabi's Polished Mirror: Identity Shift and Meaning Event 4: Ibn Arabi's Garden among the Flames: The Heart Receptive of Every Form5: Apophasis of Desire and the Burning of Marguerite Porete 6: Meister Eckhart: Birth and Self-Birth 7: Porete and Eckhart: The Apophasis of Gender...

Includes audio CD of Quran reciters"--Cover.

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A skillful translation of six classical odes of pre-Islamic Arabia.

This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.