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Item Details
Title:
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AS THROUGH A VEIL
MYSTICAL POETRY IN ISLAM |
By: |
Annemarie Schimmel |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£31.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1851682740 |
ISBN 13: |
9781851682744 |
Publisher: |
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 2001 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
Pages: |
384 |
Description: |
A thorough survey of mystical poetry in islam, rangin far and wide across the centuries and continents. |
Synopsis: |
The late Annemarie Schimmel drew exhaustively on an enourmous range of sources both ancient and modern to create this thorough survey of a unique body of literature. Travelling from continent to continent and across the centuries, this 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 Pakistan. |
Illustrations: |
illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Oneworld Publications |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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