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| Author | : Farid Attar |
| Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0140444343 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (443 downloads) |
An allegorical poem about the search of the world's birds for the perfect king illustrates the mystical beliefs of sufism
| Author | : |
| Publsiher | : World Wisdom, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Birds |
| ISBN | : 1937786021 |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (86 downloads) |
The hoopoe bird leads a flight of other birds in search of their king, Simurgh.
| Author | : Farid Attar |
| Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2005-03-31 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141920955 |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (29 downloads) |
Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.
| Author | : Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Publsiher | : Dramatic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780871291066 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (712 downloads) |
The Conference of the Birds is one of the great works of world literature. In Farid ud-Din Attar's masterpiece, the nature of the spiritual path is examined through the allegory of thirty brave birds that go in search of their king through the peaks of exultation and valleys of despair that represent the stages of the seeker as he travels toward enlightenment. Attar was the predecessor of the great Persian Sufi poet Jalalludin Rumi, who borrowed Attar's technique of weaving wisdom within entertaining and amusing tales.
| Author | : Attar |
| Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0393292193 |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (921 downloads) |
“These lofty words are an antidote for anyone sickened by extremism's poison.” Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king. Attar’s beguiling anecdotes and humor intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, while his poem models the soul’s escape from the mind’s rational embrace. Sholeh Wolpé re-creates for modern readers the beauty and timeless wisdom of the original Persian, in contemporary English verse and poetic prose.
| Author | : Farid Ud-Din Attar |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781420960785 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (29 downloads) |
Farid ud-Din Attar was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of his poetry while treating hundreds of patients a day with his herbal remedies. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and sought wisdom during his travels in Egypt, Damascus, and India. His masterpiece, "The Conference of the Birds", has survived centuries because of its captivating poetic style and its symbolic exploration on the true nature of God. This 4500-line poem follows the birds of the world, each of which hold special significance, as they seek out the Simurgh, a mythical Persian bird much like the phoenix, in hopes that he might be their king. The birds must cross seven valleys on their quest, each of which represents various trials that the individual must pass through to realize the true nature of God. Within the overlying allegory, Attar captivates readers with short, charming stories in beautiful and clever language. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of Edward Fitzgerald.
| Author | : John Heilpern |
| Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Experimental theater |
| ISBN | : 9780878301102 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (783 downloads) |
"Part theater expedition and experiment, part spiritual search and comedy of errors, Brook's adventure was in essence a search for a new beginning and a completely new form of theater. The actors performed at each village they came to improvising before stunned villagers with whom they shared no common language. The outcome was to have far-reaching implications for the future of theater and a seminal impact on all of Brook's groundbreaking work thereafter - from his ninety-minute Carmen to his seven-hour epic, The Mahabharata."--BOOK JACKET. "This classic book is the most penetrating account written about the ideas and personality of the man described as the world's greatest theater director."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Farid Al-Din Attar |
| Publsiher | : Weiser Books |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2001-10-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781578632466 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (786 downloads) |
First written in the 12th century, Conference of the Birds is an allegory of extreme measures for extreme times -- the story of birds seeking a king is the story of all of us seeking God. Like the birds, we may be excited for the journey, until we realize that we must give up our fears and hollow desires, that our journey will be long and hard. Like the duck, we may not wish to leave the water. Like the nightingale, we may want to stay close to our roses. Direct and to the point, Masani's translation, made in the early part of the 19th century, is particularly apropos for our early 21st century times -- both are periods of intense spiritual seeking.
| Author | : O. Classe |
| Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 930 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781884964367 |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (849 downloads) |
Includes articles about translations of the works of specific authors and also more general topics pertaining to literary translation.
| Author | : Peter Sis |
| Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-10-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0143124242 |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (242 downloads) |
An award-winning author and illustrator offers a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the beloved Sufi poem Celebrated children’s book creator Peter Sis presents his first book for adults with The Conference of the Birds—a lyrical and richly illustrated story of love, faith, and the beauty of the human journey. Sis’s deeply felt version of the classic twelfth-century Persian epic poem tells the story of a flock of birds in search of the true king, Simorgh, who lives on the mountain of Kaf. Drawn from all species, the flock travels through the seven valleys: quest, love, understanding, detachment, unity, amazement, and death. The birds that endure reach the mountain to learn a profound lesson: that Simorgh the king is, in fact, each of them and all of them.
| Author | : Albert Hunt |
| Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 1995-09-28 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521296052 |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (212 downloads) |
This fascinating study chronicles Peter Brook's development, concluding with some of his most recent and innovative work.
| Author | : M. D. Fletcher |
| Publsiher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9789051837650 |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (518 downloads) |
Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most important writer of the present time. His significant and controversial literary interventions in debates on post-colonial culture and contemporary South Asian Islam are matched by the contribution he has made to postmodern literature in the West (culminating in the award to him in 1993 of the twenty-fifth-anniversary Booker of Bookers prize).This collection of articles focuses on Rushdie's five novels. The context is set by the introduction, The Politics of Salman Rushdie's Fiction, which discusses the political stance of Rushdie's fiction, the various influences on his work, and the textual strategies and techniques he employs, for political expression and cultural critique. The postmodern/post-colonial interface, the carnivalesque, and satire are major themes treated here and in the articles that follow, which also provide diverse other perspectives on Rushdie's thought and method. A number of essays have been commissioned specially for this volume. An appendix listing selected writings by Rushdie and articles on the Satanic Verses Affair is followed by a comprehensive bibliography annotating critical studies of Rushdie's work.
| Author | : Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār |
| Publsiher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Sufi poetry, Persian |
| ISBN | : 9780711217584 |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (112 downloads) |
The "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Sufi allegory that has beenescribed as the Islamic "Canterbury Tales". Written by an Iranian Sufi,arid ud-Din Attar, who was a major influence on the work of Rumi, it is thetory of the birds' quest for an ideal king, and an allegory for the Sufi (orystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular andnfluential in the Islamic world, it is still relatively unfamiliar in theest. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extractso make the insight of Sufism accessible to a contemporary reader. Each pages decorated with illustrations taken from Persian manuscripts in theriental collection at the British Library.;The poem uses the birds' journeyo describe the stages of Sufi enlightenment, and each bird represents auman archetype. At the end of the tale, the birds discover tht what they areeeking is none other than themselves: in Sufism, enlightenment is unity withhe Divine, and the way to God is inward, through one's own soul.
| Author | : Nasrin Rahimieh |
| Publsiher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004091771 |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (4 downloads) |
Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further interdisciplinary discussions.
| Author | : Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons |
| Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Deception |
| ISBN | : 9781433104220 |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (331 downloads) |
The essays in Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigate the subject of deception and falsehood from various perspectives. Classical, modernist and postmodern texts and art forms, both visual and performative, are examined in frames of reference that range from aesthetics and literary theory to cognitive science. In some cases, deception and falsehood are seen to have positive connotations, and, in other cases, their negative dimensions are highlighted. The complexity of these terms and their relationship with truth and truthfulness are put on display by the contributors to this volume.
| Author | : Jeremy Mynott |
| Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Bird watching |
| ISBN | : 9780691135397 |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (911 downloads) |
What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? Birdscapes is a unique meditation on the variety of human responses to birds, from antiquity to today, and from casual observers to the globe-trotting "twitchers" who sometimes risk life, limb, and marriages simply to add new species to their "life lists." Drawing extensively on literature, history, philosophy, and science, Jeremy Mynott puts his own experiences as a birdwatcher in a rich cultural context. His sources range from the familiar--Thoreau, Keats, Darwin, and Audubon--to the unexpected--Benjamin Franklin, Giacomo Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty Python. Just as unusual are the extensive illustrations, which explore our perceptions and representations of birds through images such as national emblems, women's hats, professional sports logos, and a Christmas biscuit tin, as well as classics of bird art. Each chapter takes up a new theme--from rarity, beauty, and sound to conservation, naming, and symbolism--and is set in a new place, as Mynott travels from his "home patch" in Suffolk, England, to his "away patch" in New York City's Central Park, as well as to Russia, Australia, and Greece. Conversational, playful, and witty, Birdscapes gently leads us to reflect on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world. It encourages birders to see their pursuits in a broader human context--and it shows nonbirders what they may be missing.
| Author | : Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk |
| Publsiher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004138099 |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (38 downloads) |
Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
