Sharing Poetic Expressions: Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture [Hardcover]

A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures  at the moment especially between the Occident and Islam  presents challenges to mutual understandings and calls for restoring the resources of our human beings forgotten in the struggle of competition and rivalry at the vital spheres of existence. In the evolutionary progress of the living beings the strictly vital concerns, emotions, attributes become sublimed and elevated to the spiritual sphere at which human beings encounter each other and share. Studies presented here bring forth sublimity, generosity, forgiveness, beauty, and are exalting the quest after ciphers and symbols which lead to our sharing the common deepest stream of fraternal reality.

Acknowledgements

?PROLOGUE: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

?SECTION I:

?THE AESTHETICS OF ISLAMIC ETHICS

William Chittick

?ON GENEROSITY EAST AND WEST: THE BEAUTY OF COMPARISON

Patricia Trutty-Coohill

?THE OCCIDENTAL EPIC AS COMPARED TO THE ISLAMIC EPIC

Jack Steele

?CROSSING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN CULTURE

MORAL SENSE OF JUSTICE IN THE FABLE OF THE RINGDOVE

Detlev Quintern

MUSTAFA SAID AND JULIEN SOREL:? DIVIDED SKIES, COMMON HORIZONS??????????

Mahmoud Jaran

?THE SUBLIME IN IZET SARAJLIC AND JACQUES PREVERT

Lejla Marijam

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SECTION II:

BEAUTY AND ITS PROJECTION IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION????

Habip Turker

?A POETRY OF MYSTICISM: SOLOMON IBN GABIROL, MAULANA JALAUDDIN RUMI, AND RANIER MARIA RILKE

Bruce Ross

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