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A Scent of Sandalwood

Indo-Ismaili Religious Lyrics

By: Aziz Esmail

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A Scent of Sandalwood

Indo-Ismaili Religious Lyrics

By: Aziz Esmail

The Ginans are religious lyrics which have long been a central part of the religious life of the Indian Mizari Ismaili community (known as Khojas), and continue to form their living poetic tradition. Aziz Esmail's translation is suggestive of the depth of religious thought, feeling and imagination out of which this poetry was born, and the lyrical beauty of the form in which this experience found a voice. The poetry of the Ginans illustrates an historically and culturally specific conception of the world, and of the norms peculiar to that culture, as well as a religious perception that forms a significant part of the religious experience of mankind. This volume will appeal both to specialists and more general readers, including Indologists, scholars of Islam in the Subcontinent, students of Comparative Religion, Comparative Literature, and those with an interest in mystical or devotional poetry.

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1136876537

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A Scent of Sandalwood

Indo-Ismaili Religious Lyrics

By: Aziz Esmail

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1136876464

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The Poetics of Religious Experience

Islamic Context

By: Aziz Esmail

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The Poetics of Religious Experience

Islamic Context

By: Aziz Esmail

The poetics of religious experience investigates creativity of a particular kind, namely explorations in the language of symbols and metaphors, which constitute the core ideas and vision of a religious tradition. In examining the symbolic and imaginative features of the poetics of religious experience, the author of this essay draws attention to a number of critical issues - literary, philosophical, and historical - which lie behind various interpretations of Islam, and their relevance to the intellectual needs of the Muslim world today. Although these themes are addressed in the Islamic context, they are, in fact, of seminal importance to the more general problem of knowledge and interpretation, and in the wider field of comparative religion, human psychology, and culture.

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I.B. Tauris

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1860642403

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9781860642401

Reason, Interpretation and Islam

Essays in the Philosophy of Religion

By: Aziz Esmail

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Reason, Interpretation and Islam

Essays in the Philosophy of Religion

By: Aziz Esmail

These essays, published for the first time, address the age-old question of the relation between philosophical and scientific reason and religious belief and imagination. The author addresses the question by reference to the classical history of Islam, selecting such key texts, figures and movements as the Qu'ran, the rationalism of the Mutazila, the Fatimids, and the great Muslim philosophers from Farabi to Averroes.

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288

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0700710892

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9780700710898

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A Scent of Sandalwood

A Scent of Sandalwood

A Scent of Sandalwood

A Scent of Sandalwood

The Poetics of Religious Experience

The Poetics of Religious Experience

Reason, Interpretation and Islam

Reason, Interpretation and Islam

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