The Sword The Pen And The Phallus

Author : Sebastian Günther
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047407263

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Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal by Sebastian Günther Pdf

This volume of collected studies in classical Arabic literature and Islam opens a window into the fascinating world of medieval Muslim scholarship. It explores issues in the intellectual heritage of Islam, which have universal appeal and are, therefore, of interest to both specialist and non-specialist readers alike.

Author : Mahdi Tourage
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004163539

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Rūmī and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism by Mahdi Tourage Pdf

Drawing on relevant postmodern theories, and exploring the link between the dynamics of eroticism and esotericism, this book establishes the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales in R?m?'s (d. 1273) "Mathnaw?," a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic mystical literature.

Author : Walter G. Andrews,Mehmet Kalpakli
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822385905

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The Age of Beloveds by Walter G. Andrews,Mehmet Kalpakli Pdf

The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe—from Istanbul to London—during the long sixteenth century. Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpakli provide a generous sampling of translations of Ottoman poems, many of which have never appeared in English, along with informative and inspired close readings. The authors explain that the flourishing of Ottoman power and culture during the “Turkish Renaissance” manifested itself, to some degree, as an “age of beloveds,” in which young men became the focal points for the desire and attention of powerful officeholders and artists as well as the inspiration for a rich literature of love. The authors show that the “age of beloveds” was not just an Ottoman, eastern European, or Islamic phenomenon. It extended into western Europe as well, pervading the cultures of Venice, Florence, Rome, and London during the same period. Andrews and Kalpakli contend that in an age dominated by absolute rulers and troubled by war, cultural change, and religious upheaval, the attachments of dependent courtiers and the longings of anxious commoners aroused an intense interest in love and the beloved. The Age of Beloveds reveals new commonalities in the cultural history of two worlds long seen as radically different.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Alhoda UK
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 1592670385

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Persian Classical and Modern Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kia Chad Kia
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474450409

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Art, Allegory and the Rise of Shi'ism in Iran, 1487-1565 by Kia Chad Kia Pdf

Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings. It reveals the hidden meaning behind enigmatic figures and scenes that have puzzled modern scholars, focusing on five 'miniature' paintings. Chad Kia shows how the cryptic elements in these works of art from Timurid Persia conveyed the mystical teachings of Sufi poets like Rumi, Attar and Jami, and heralded one of the most significant events in the history of Islam: the takeover by the Safavids in 1501 and the conversion of Iran to Shiism.

Author : J.T.P. Bruijn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857723574

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General Introduction to Persian Literature by J.T.P. Bruijn Pdf

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.

Author : Samuel England
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474425254

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Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition by Samuel England Pdf

The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India

Author : Julia Bray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134171545

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Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam by Julia Bray Pdf

With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the ‘formative period of Islamic thought’, the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category. Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and recent scholarship, Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam will be welcomed by students and scholars of classical Arabic literature, Islamic history and medieval history.

Author : Domenico Ingenito
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004435902

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Beholding Beauty by Domenico Ingenito Pdf

In Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Domenico Ingenito explores the unstudied connections between eroticism, spirituality, and politics in the lyric poetry of 13th-century literary master Sa‘di Shirazi.

Author : John Andrew Morrow
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476612881

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Islamic Images and Ideas by John Andrew Morrow Pdf

These 24 studies on specific symbols, images and icons from the Muslim tradition are authored by scholars from around the world. Divided into four sections, the Divine, the Spiritual, the Physical, and the Societal, they examine theological issues, such as divine unity, creation, wrath, and justice, as well as spiritual subjects, such as the straight path, servitude, perfection, the jinn, intoxication, and the status of Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Essays also explore the symbolism of physical elements such as water, trees, seas, ships, food, the male sexual organ, eyebrows, and camels; and the significance of more socially-centered subjects such as the center, ijtihad, governance, otherness, Ashura, and Arabic. Drawing from the Qur'an and Sunnah, the essays address these topics with tact and respect from a position that appreciates exegetical diversity while remaining within the realm of unity.

Author : Philipp Valentini,Mahdi Tourage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609717

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Esoteric Lacan by Philipp Valentini,Mahdi Tourage Pdf

Jacques Lacan was fascinated with forms of the "religious" throughout his life, from monotheism, which shaped his account of the signifier, to modern occultism, as he was well acquainted with the writings of figures such as Oskar Goldberg and René Guénon. Lacan also repeatedly turned to non-European religiosities to test the limits of psychoanalytic theory. In his yearly seminars he engaged with traditions such as Kabbalah and Taoism, going beyond the Western Christian, capitalist and postcolonial setting of the French university to search for a possible outside to psychoanalysis. But such a quest ultimately recapitulates Lacan's constant awareness of the desire for a new master, and the still open question regarding the names and meanings that this desire may yield. This anthology of eleven essays, which travel from gnosticism to sufism, from afro-pessimism to post-68 ex-Maoist apocalypticism, investigates these unresolved threads that Lacan left behind. Beneath the exoteric psychoanalytic apparatus of Lacan's thought, there is an esoteric Lacan who remains unexplored.

Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137049575

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The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama by N. Liebler Pdf

This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

Author : Willy Apollon,Danielle Bergeron,Lucie Cantin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791488058

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After Lacan by Willy Apollon,Danielle Bergeron,Lucie Cantin Pdf

The authors use examples from their own clinical practice to explain the development of Lacanian theory.

Author : Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717635

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A Centre of Wonders by Janet Moore Lindman,Michele Lise Tarter Pdf

Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.

Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004344044

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The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature by Deanna Smid Pdf

Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its ability to create novelty.