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The Forty Rules of Love

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2011-06-02
ISBN 10	: 9780241957103
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (571 users)

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Download or read book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The international bestseller* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . . 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph 'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times

The Forty Rules of Love

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Viking
Release Date	: 2015-04-01
ISBN 10	: 0241972930
Pages	: 354 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak and published by Viking. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the forty rules of love . . . Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored . . . 'With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Lovedeserves to be a global publishing phenomenon.' Independent 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love.' Metro 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent.' Daily Telegraph

The Island of Missing Trees

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2021-11-02
ISBN 10	: 9781635578607
Pages	: 369 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (786 users)

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Download or read book The Island of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

Dimensions of Love

Author	: Padma Aon Prakasha
Publisher	: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-06-28
ISBN 10	: 9781780995144
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (951 users)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Love written by Padma Aon Prakasha and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is love...and what is it not? Why is love the most misused word on this planet? Is love meant to hurt? Is there a map to love that I can follow? The Pathway to God s Divine Love, the simplest pathway on earth, has been obscured by our own forgetting of who God is. Dimensions of Love: 7 Steps to God contains new and sometimes radical truths for the soul, in a simple, poignant and profound way. Soulful and insightful, it contains a message of beauty that cannot be missed.

Muslims and American Popular Culture [2 volumes]

Author	: Anne R. Richards
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2014-02-10
ISBN 10	: 9780313379635
Pages	: 847 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (796 users)

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Download or read book Muslims and American Popular Culture [2 volumes] written by Anne R. Richards and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. • Identifies the contributions of Muslims to American fiction, poetry, music, food, architecture, and other cultural forms to document the breadth of their contributions • Highlights the ways in which Muslims have been, and continue to be, routinely depicted negatively in American literature, film, and religious discourse, and documents the potential effects that such depictions can have on individual Muslims and their communities • Offers readers useful tools that allow them to apply a critical eye to the representations of Muslims in the news

Honour

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2020-07-23
ISBN 10	: 0241989248
Pages	: 344 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Honour written by Elif Shafak and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten' Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime. Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.

Re-discovering Age(ing)

Author	: Núria Casado-Gual
Publisher	: transcript Verlag
Release Date	: 2019-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9783839443965
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (439 users)

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Download or read book Re-discovering Age(ing) written by Núria Casado-Gual and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the 'wise teacher,' fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume explore wisdom in old age through a series of narratives of mentorship which, either from a critical or a personal perspective, undermine ageist views of later life.

Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes

Author	: Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Publisher	: ISD LLC
Release Date	: 2019-12-31
ISBN 10	: 9781925612288
Pages	: 130 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (122 users)

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Download or read book Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes written by Alberto Fabio Ambrosio and published by ISD LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brings together, in English, for the first time a number of articles in one volume that have been published in various books and journals and are reprinted with permission. Through this work, Rumi and his poetry as well as the whirling dervishes, will hopefully become more widely known in Western countries than they are at present. The whirling dervishes are famous for their ecstatic dance and but here it is hoped that their role within Sufism will become more clearly understood. The book is an attempt to suggest a renewed manner of thinking about one of the most celebrated trends in the mystical dimension of the Islam, the religion of love of Rumi and the cosmic dance of the dervishes. The theology is at the back of all the itinerary and the all five chapters represent the possibility to rethink the dynamic relation between disciples and their Founder, institution and charisma, politics and mysticism.

Contesting Islamophobia

Author	: Peter Morey
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-05-30
ISBN 10	: 9781788316132
Pages	: 296 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (161 users)

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Download or read book Contesting Islamophobia written by Peter Morey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamophobia is one of the most prevalent forms of prejudice in the world today. This timely book reveals the way in which Islamophobia's pervasive power is being met with responses that challenge it and the worldview on which it rests. The volume breaks new ground by outlining the characteristics of contemporary Islamophobia across a range of political, historic, and cultural public debates in Europe and the United States. Chapters examine issues such as: how anti-Muslim prejudice facilitates questionable foreign and domestic policies of Western governments; the tangible presence of anti-Muslim bias in media and the arts including a critique of the global blockbuster fantasy series Game of Thrones; youth activism in response to securitised Islamophobia in education; and activist forms of Muslim self-fashioning including Islamic feminism, visual art and comic strip superheroes in popular culture and new media. Drawing on contributions from experts in history, sociology, and literature, the book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from culture and the arts as well as political and policy reflections. It argues for an inclusive cultural dialogue through which misrepresentation and institutionalised Islamophobia can be challenged.

The Island of Missing Trees

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2021-08-05
ISBN 10	: 9780241988732
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (887 users)

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Download or read book The Island of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. 'This book moved me to tears . . . in the best way. Powerful and poignant' Reese Witherspoon 'A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion' Robert Macfarlane 'This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime' Polly Samson

The Architect's Apprentice

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2015-03-31
ISBN 10	: 9780698182622
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (826 users)

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Download or read book The Architect's Apprentice written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s “Reading Room” Book Club In this novel, Turkey’s preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan’s beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire’s chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota’s help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history. Yet even as they build Sinan’s triumphant masterpieces—the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques—dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan’s four apprentices. A memorable story of artistic freedom, creativity, and the clash between science and fundamentalism, Shafak’s intricate novel brims with vibrant characters, intriguing adventure, and the lavish backdrop of the Ottoman court, where love and loyalty are no match for raw power.

Pandemie und Politik

Author	: Schweiz. Institut für Auslandforschung
Publisher	: NZZ Libro
Release Date	: 2022-06-13
ISBN 10	: 9783907396124
Pages	: 213 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (961 users)

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Download or read book Pandemie und Politik written by Schweiz. Institut für Auslandforschung and published by NZZ Libro. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lehren aus der Pandemie Auch 2021 drehte sich wieder vieles in der Welt um das Thema Corona, in anderen Facetten, aber durchaus länger, als man gehofft hatte. Die Krise hat weiterhin Themen nationaler wie internationaler Politik und Wirtschaft beeinflusst, und entsprechend widmeten sich die Veranstaltungen und Gespräche den Themen «Pandemie und Politik». Das Jahrbuch präsentiert eine Rückschau auf unsere renommierten Rednerinnen und Redner sowie unseren Austausch mit ihnen. Mit Beiträgen von Mervyn King, Gerhard Schwarz, Ilaria Capua, Christian Lindner, Niall Ferguson, Alain Berset, Anne Applebaum, Sahra Wagenknecht, Elif Shafak und Bertrand Piccard.

Turkish Literature as World Literature

Author	: Burcu Alkan
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2020-12-10
ISBN 10	: 9781501358036
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book Turkish Literature as World Literature written by Burcu Alkan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene are complemented by examples of cross-generational intertextual encounters. The renowned poet Nâzim Hikmet is studied from a variety of angles, while contemporary and popular writers such as Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak are contextualized. Turkish Literature as World Literature not only fills a significant lacuna in world literary studies but also draws a composite historical, political, and cultural portrait of Turkey in its relations with the broader world.

The Gaze

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Viking
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 0141048948
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book The Gaze written by Elif Shafak and published by Viking. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I didn't say anything. I didn't return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.' An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the woman wants to hide away from the world, the man meets the stares from passers-by head on, compiling his 'Dictionary of Gazes' to explore the boundaries between appearance and reality. Intertwined with the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s, The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others.

The Bastard of Istanbul

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2008-01-29
ISBN 10	: 9781440635847
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (358 users)

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Download or read book The Bastard of Istanbul written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “vivid and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) "Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." —USA Today As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families--and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.

RUMI - Drops of Enlightenment: (Quotes & Poems)

Author	: Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Publisher	: Murat Durmus
Release Date	: 2022-10-26
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 85 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book RUMI - Drops of Enlightenment: (Quotes & Poems) written by Jalal Al-Din Rumi and published by Murat Durmus. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all who believe in beauty, love, mindfulness, and the power of words. (excerpt) FOREWORD I remember it well as if it were yesterday. I was ten years old when my father took me to a performance of the dancing dervishes in Konya. I was fascinated by the elegance of their movements, as if they were floating. But, to be honest, I did not know how to classify my impressions at that moment. It was just too much. On the one hand, I was deeply impressed and touched; on the other hand, I was afraid (today, I would call it awe). In any case, my visit at that time left lasting impressions. So much so that they keep coming back to my mind. Rumi's poems and quotations are omnipresent. They appear everywhere, and one cannot escape their depth, beauty, and meaning. They are a part of great human creativity and remind us repeatedly how powerful (in a positive sense) words can be. This little booklet addresses all who believe in beauty, love, mindfulness, and the power of words. May Rumi's words touch you as they have always touched me and be a companion for a fulfilling and inspiring life. Murat Durmus

Contemporary Sufism

Author	: Meena Sharify-Funk
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-12-22
ISBN 10	: 9781134879991
Pages	: 270 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (799 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Sufism written by Meena Sharify-Funk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. The three main themes: piety, politics, and popular culture are explored in relation to the Islamic and Western contexts that shape them, as well as to the historical conditions that frame contemporary debates. This book is split into three parts: • Sufism and anti-Sufism in contemporary contexts; • Contemporary Sufism in the West: Poetic influences and popular manifestations; • Gendering Sufism: Tradition and transformation. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the challenges of contemporary Sufism as well as its relationship to Islam, gender, and the West. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and lecturers can explore Sufism today.