This is an epic tale about two mighty warring families who are descendants of King Sudry of Hastin. The forces of evil represent the Telhoths and the forces of good represent the Prols. They use supernatural powers, plots, cunning, bravery and wisdom against each other. Welcome to the world of mysticism and adventure.
Dear Readers, I am sure that you will feel great pleasure and excitement while reading my literary works (screenplays and poems) written for the 7th art, cinema.The free -verse poems include "global" issues appearing in the form of sometimes objects, sometimes animals (our buddies), sometimes sports and sometimes global warming. Film Director Jean-Luc Godard said: "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." As I adopted this statement, I want to state that my literal and narrative screenplays will not only affect your left and right lobe but also allow you, my dear readers, to push the limits of your imagination, so you will visualize yourself as the characters depicted in the book and you will experience different evens as if you were one of them without being dependant on place, time and characters. You will, indeed, feel all the features of the ruler, of the referee and of the director of this book. These 19 screenplays and IO poems will enable you sometimes to travel to Colorado, the homeland of Cheeseburger, by following a small yellow flower; sometimes to witness extinct giant birds that came back from the dead after an earthquake; sometimes to find yourself in Machu Picchu with the help of the sun and water upon coming across a parchment paper; and sometimes to witness the messages coming from the Northern and Southern lights when Malaccan and Turkish sweethearts go to Lapland, to snow country, due to financial problems. You will feel many other common excitements and adventures like these. You will burst with excitement, laugh, cry, and shiver with fear. You will have all the feels in this book. I feel great pleasure to write like Atilla iLHAN and Hasan Huseyin KORKMAZGiL, some of the great poets and writers in our neighbourhood. May all the writers who lived in the past and in our neighbourhood and also my late father Selahattin KAHVECi rest in peace...
This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India
Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's his
For centuries there has been fascination, within and beyond the Islamic world, with the mystical teachings of Sufism, and with the role of the Islamic 'saints' whose life and work were important to Islamic theology. Margaret Smith's classic work, Rabi'a the Mystic, describes the teaching, life and times of one of the great women of the Islamic tradition, Rabi'a of Basra. This study has never been bettered. It is now reissued unchanged, but with a new introduction by Professor Annemarie Schimmel. This emphasises the importance of the book - and of Rabi'a herself - and questions of major importance today: the nature of mystical belief and experience, the Sufi tradition, and the role of women in the Islamic world.
Albinia follows the Indus River in Asia, one of the largest rivers in the world, through 2,000 miles of geography and back to a time 5,000 years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. Illustrations.
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world. According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. Instead it is rooted in conventions and rules of prosody, rhymes, and verbal instrumentation. Ideally, every verse should be like a precious stone--perfectly formed and multifaceted--and convey the dynamic relationship between everyday reality and the transcendental. Persian poetry, Schimmel explains, is more similar to medieval European verse than Western poetry as it has been written since the Romantic period. The characteristic verse form is the ghazal--a set of rhyming couplets--which serves as a vehicle for shrouding in conventional tropes the poet's real intentions. Because Persian poetry is neither narrative nor dramatic in its overall form, its strength lies in an "architectonic" design; each precisely expressed image is carefully fitted into a pattern of linked figures of speech. Schimmel shows that at its heart Persian poetry transforms the world into a web of symbols embedded in Islamic culture.