And I Do Call to Witness the Self-Reproaching Spirit (Silence of the Sufi, Band 1) - Softcover

Madaliev, Sabit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975444425 ISBN 13: 9780975444429

Verlag: AUTUMN HILL BOOKS, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Through short, historical vignettes on spiritual teachers and brief stories, this narrative examines the Zen-like spiritual practices of Central Asian Sufism and provides a personal account of the seeker’s own entry into the traditions of the Naqshbandiya of Uzbekistan. Part history, part devotional work or stranstvie (a literary, religious, and historical wandering), this book seeks to explore, preserve, validate, and through discreet segments—"On Listening Attentively", "On Gentle Words", "On Proper Posture"—record and ruminate on Sufi Islam as practiced in Central Asia across the centuries. The book’s historical and devotional aspects are made beautiful and compelling through the seeker’s poetic idiom, his own uncertainty, and his sense of unworthiness in the search for God. Core ideas of love, sacrifice, absence of self, and divine and human purpose find expression in every part of this account, attempting to strike a chord in modern or postmodern lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sabit Madaliev is the author of 14 books of poetry and fiction published in the former USSR and his native Uzbekistan. Russell Scott Valentino is the translator of Materdada, Persuasion and Rhetoric, Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary, and A Castle in Romagna and has translated fiction in journals such as The Iowa Review, Poroi, Two Lines, and 91st Meridian. A recipient of two Fulbright research awards to Croatia, he currently teaches in the master of fine arts in translation program at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AUTUMN HILL BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0975444425
• ISBN 13: 9780975444429
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 171
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