Abu al-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī : songs of love and devotion

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Abu al-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī : songs of love and devotion

translated and introduced by Lourdes María Alvarez ; foreword by Michael A. Sells

(The classics of Western spirituality)

Paulist Press, c2009

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index

Contents of Works

  • Foreword / Michael A. Sells
  • Praising God in the language of everyday life
  • Poems and songs
  • Intoxicated by the Divine
  • Love-crazed
  • Denudatio/stripping bare
  • Among the Sufis
  • Deciphering the signs of God
  • Desert wanderings
  • At the monastery
  • Ode rhyming in Nūn
  • Prose
  • Baghdad treatise
  • Commentary on poems and songs

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Sensuous, spiritual, and ethereal, this selection of works by the prominent Andalusian Sufi mystic and poet Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (1212-1269) will delight everyone, whether or not they are devotees of Islamic literature.

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