Sharing Poetic Expressions:: Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture

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A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures – at the moment especially between the Occident and Islam – presents challenges to mutual understandings and calls for restoring the resources of our human beings forgotten in the struggle of competition and rivalry at the vital spheres of existence. In the evolutionary progress of the living beings the strictly vital concerns, emotions, attributes become sublimed and elevated to the spiritual sphere at which human beings encounter each other and share. Studies presented here bring forth sublimity, generosity, forgiveness, beauty, and are exalting the quest after ciphers and symbols which lead to our sharing the common deepest stream of fraternal reality. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Aesthetics of Islamic Ethics....Pages 3-14 On Generosity East and West: The Beauty of Comparison....Pages 16-31 The Occidental Epic as Compared to the Islamic Epic....Pages 33-37 Crossing the Spatiotemporal Dimension of Human Culture: Moral Sense of Justice in the Fable of the Ringdove....Pages 39-50 Occidental and Islamic Cultures: Divided Skies, Common Horizons....Pages 51-58 The Sublime in the Poetry of Izet Sarajlić and Jacques Prévert....Pages 59-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Beauty and its Projection in Christian and Islamic Tradition....Pages 68-79 A Poetry of Mysticism: Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, and Rainer Maria Rilke....Pages 81-105 Self, Other and Nothingness in Western Philosophy and in Islamic Mysticism....Pages 107-124 La Nuit du Temps: sur un Poème de Joan Vinyoli....Pages 125-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Christian and Islamic Roots of a Holistic Rhetoric....Pages 139-148 Al-Biruni’s “One And Many”: Saying the Same in Different Ways....Pages 149-160 Breeze of Tagore, Rumi and Lalon, in Poetic Expressions: Saying the Same....Pages 161-174 Women and the Vegetable Kingdom: Love Metaphors in Christian and Islamic Medieval Poetics....Pages 175-184 To See a World....Pages 185-189 Nature, Spirit, and the Convergence of Christian and Islamic Ecopoetry, or, How Our Poets Can Help Us Rediscover Our Spiritual Connection to the Earth and Each Other....Pages 191-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 La Chair Lucide....Pages 209-211 Poetic Expressions in Sufi Language (Based on Al-Niffary’s “Kitab Al-Mawaqif”)....Pages 213-215 Tuning Forks of the Soul....Pages 217-228 The Song of the “Promised One”....Pages 229-238 Back Matter....Pages 239-247