As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam (American Lectures on the History of Religions) - Hardcover

Schimmel, Annemarie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231052464 ISBN 13: 9780231052467

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1982

Synopsis

A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetry

About this title

About the Author:

Luce Irigaray, a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, is the leading feminist philosopher in France. She is author of more than twenty books, including Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, The Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Columbia), and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger.

Review:

"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too... This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray's notion of a community without gender wars is important." -- Library Journal "[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carry provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." -- Religious Studies Review "It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." -- Ascent Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0231052464
• ISBN 13: 9780231052467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380