As Through A Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam by Annemarie Schimmel

As Through A Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam

Annemarie Schimmel

376 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This text presents the complicated story of how a poetic tradition evolved in a number of different languages over a period of twelvehundred years. It involves the history of Sufism, the tensions between mysticism and orthodoxy in Islamic thought ...

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