Ray-Banoutlet.co

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)

GET EBOOK!

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	:
Release Date	: 2015-09-03
ISBN 10	: 0241974534
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (34 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself. Penguin by Hand is a collection comprising six of Penguin's most popular women's fiction titles of recent years, all with new and beautiful craft-inspired jackets.

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)

GET EBOOK!

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)

GET EBOOK!

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

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)

GET EBOOK!

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	: pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (122 users)

GET EBOOK!

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 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)

GET EBOOK!

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.

Honor

Author	: Elif Shafak
Publisher	: Viking Press
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 0670784834
Pages	: 342 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (34 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Honor written by Elif Shafak and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of twin sisters born in 1940s Turkey diverge when one stays in their childhood village and becomes a revered midwife while the other moves to London with her bitter husband and three children.

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)

GET EBOOK!

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.

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)

GET EBOOK!

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)

GET EBOOK!

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.

Discourses on Nations and Identities

Author	: Daniel Syrovy
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2021-01-18
ISBN 10	: 9783110641875
Pages	: 612 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (418 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Discourses on Nations and Identities written by Daniel Syrovy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature" includes contributions that focus on the interplay between concepts of nation, national languages, and individual as well as collective identities. Because all literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. In the first of four thematic chapters, the papers investigate some of the ways in which discourses can establish modes of thinking, or how discourses are in turn controlled by active linguistic interventions, whether in the context of the patriarchy, war, colonialism, or political factions. The second thematic block is predominantly concerned with hybridity as an aspect of modern cultural identity, and the cultural and linguistic dimensions of domestic life and in society at large. Closely related, a third series of papers focuses on writers and texts analysed from the vantage points of exile and exophony, as well as theoretical contributions to issues of terminology and what it means to talk about transcultural phenomena. Finally, a group of papers sheds light on more overtly violent power structures, mechanisms of exclusion, Totalitarianism, torture, and censorship, but also resistance to these forms of oppression. In addition to these chapters, the volume also collects a number of thematically related group sections from the ICLA congress, preserving their original context.

The Clarity Cleanse

Author	: Dr Habib Sadeghi
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2018-01-18
ISBN 10	: 9780751572490
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (724 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Clarity Cleanse written by Dr Habib Sadeghi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GOOP insider and advisor to Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Blunt, Tim Robbins, Stella McCartney and others, Dr Sadeghi shows you how to turn obstacles into healing and energising opportunities. Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr Habib Sadeghi developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, THE CLARITY CLEANSE will enable you to clear your mind and heal your body. The Clarity Cleanse has two components: DIETARY and EMOTIONAL. The diet is designed to negate the physical residue of repressed emotions in the organs most affected by negativity. By following this diet for 10 days a month while alternating between emotional purging exercises - 12-minute writings and 12-minute dialogues - readers will find emotional clarity, clarity of vision and clarity of action in their daily lives. With THE CLARITY CLEANSE you learn how to: · Create clear intention · Purge negative emotions · Practice compassionate self-forgiveness · Refocus negative energy to move beyond doubt and fear · Ask the kind of questions that will help your relationships By following the twelve steps in this book, you will achieve a sense of peace and control, raise your self-esteem, and assert yourself in new ways to achieve positive and lasting change. Then, finally, you will be able to express your true, authentic self.

Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam

Author	: Sarwar Alam
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-08-19
ISBN 10	: 9780429872945
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (729 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam written by Sarwar Alam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been argued that the mystical Sufi form of Islam is the most sensitive to other cultures, being accommodative to other traditions and generally tolerant to peoples of other faiths. It readily becomes integrated into local cultures and they are similarly often infused into Sufism. Examples of this reciprocity are commonly reflected in Sufi poetry, music, hagiographic genres, memoires, and in the ritualistic practices of Sufi traditions. This volume shows how this often-side-lined tradition functions in the societies in which it is found, and demonstrates how it relates to mainstream Islam. The focus of this book ranges from reflecting Sufi themes in the Qur’anic calligraphy to movies, from ideals to everyday practices, from legends to actual history, from gender segregation to gender transgression, and from legalism to spiritualism. Consequently, the international panel of contributors to this volume are trained in a range of disciplines that include religious studies, history, comparative literature, anthropology, and ethnography. Covering Southeast Asia to West Africa as well as South Asia and the West, they address both historical and contemporary issues, shedding light on Sufism’s adaptability. This book sets aside conventional methods of understanding Islam, such as theological, juridical, and philosophical, in favour of analysing its cultural impact. As such, it will be of great interest to all scholars of Islamic Studies, the Sociology of Religion, Religion and Media, as well as Religious Studies and Area Studies more generally.

Teaching the Global Middle Ages

Author	: Geraldine Heng
Publisher	: Modern Language Association
Release Date	: 2022-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9781603295192
Pages	: 263 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (951 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Teaching the Global Middle Ages written by Geraldine Heng and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Self-Translation and Power

Author	: Olga Castro
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2017-08-07
ISBN 10	: 9781137507815
Pages	: 302 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (78 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Self-Translation and Power written by Olga Castro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators. The authors explore the unequal power relations and centre-periphery dichotomies of Europe’s minorised languages, literatures and cultures. They recognise that the self-translator’s double affiliation as author and translator places them in a privileged position to challenge power, to negotiate the experiences of the subaltern and colonised, and to scrutinise conflicting minorised vs. hegemonic cultural identities. Three main themes are explored in relation to self-translation: hegemony and resistance; self-minorisation and self-censorship; and collaboration, hybridisation and invisibility. This edited collection will appeal to scholars and students working on translation, transnational and postcolonial studies, and multilingual and multicultural identities.

Negotiating Borderlines in Four Contemporary Migrant Writers from the Middle East

Author	: Petya Tsoneva Ivanova
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2018-10-23
ISBN 10	: 9781527520202
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (22 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Negotiating Borderlines in Four Contemporary Migrant Writers from the Middle East written by Petya Tsoneva Ivanova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers the persistent tendency to represent the “Middle East” as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries. This perspective of enclosure haunts Middle Eastern Studies and is part of ongoing cultural debates on cross-border circulation, currently challenged by spectacular outbursts of violence along resurfacing lines of division. This critical study analyses selected works of four contemporary Anglophone migrant writers from the Middle East (namely, Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak) to demonstrate that, in spite of the forceful lines that remain after religious, ethnic and political disputes, this region does not exist as a rigidly delimited place in the writing of migrants who reclaim it back from beyond its boundaries. Rather than being a permanent location, it is constructed as a place that flows into other places and is constantly reshaped by a variety of personal stories, migrant trajectories, departures and returns.