God the All-Imaginer: Wisdom of Sufi Master Ibn Arabi in 99 Modern Sonnets (East-West Bridge Builders) (Volume 6) God is a poet, and only a poet can “taste” the Real via sensory emblems. The inmost Being of the Real, the Infinite, not knowable by mortal minds, is symbolically shown in the worlds and
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| Title | : | God the All-Imaginer: Wisdom of Sufi Master Ibn Arabi in 99 Modern Sonnets (East-West Bridge Builders) (Volume 6) |
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (248 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1533344779 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-18 |
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Editorial : About the Author "God the All-Imaginer" is the thirteenth book of poetry by Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton. He has also published "Blake and Goethe" and "Patterns of Epiphany." The present book is Volume VI in his series "East-West Bridge-Builders," which includes two books of dialogues with passages from the Qur'an, one with Goethe's "West-East Divan" (which includes Goethe's essays on the cultural history of Arabian and Persian poetry made available in English for the first time ever), a dialogue-book with Friedrich Rueckert's "Wisdom of the Brahman" Books 1-4, and a con-verse-ation with medieval pub poet Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz called "Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance." Bidney creates form-faithful translations which, like his own lyrical comments or "replies," are in highly crafted, artisanal verse. He translates from Polish, Russian, and German; three of his translation-and-dialogue books have been published by SUNY Press. His dialogic book with Poland's gr
The works of Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) are a gift of immense value to the creative artist, for this prolific Sufi thinker tells of God the All-Imaginer, Poet of the Pluriverse. The inmost Being of the Real, the Infinite, not knowable by mortal minds, is symbolically shown in the worlds and creatures God imagines, which are metaphors. God is a poet, and only a poet can “taste” the Real via sensory emblems. The Real must be imagined. Is Ibn Arabi, then, the prose counterpart to Rumi (1207–1273), the world’s greatest mystic poet? This might be true, except that Ibn Arabi’s prose is so ingenious and heart-expanding in resourceful metaphor that even in a prose medium he, too, is a Great Imaginer. For Ibn Arabi, God is a longing Lover, whose breath of yearning was the origin of our world. Responding to His love, we increase His fullness of Being! God’s activity is one of partial, unrepeatable, extremely rapid poetic self-disclosures. He is vividly presen
This book was sent to me in exchange for an honest and completely unbiased review.. Paul Cole's book, Daring, captures the key element of living a life of adventure and fulfilling manhood. It reminds me of another favourite of mine , "RJ's Farm", which also gently lets the imagination loose. For me this was waging battle against an opponent by dominating his mind, and so negating his power.
Lung starts his review in India and shows how so much of what the West regards as Chinese/Japanese wisdom actually originated in India well before the Buddha was enlightened. Dr. SF Space Military Navy Fiction at its best. Joe Field Manual Volume 2' is a wonderful visual delight. I won't bother with a deep synopsis but goole or wiki the author and you'll see his list of awards. Inline equations and formulae are not in the same font as the display equations. Paul. I read the kindle edition but I'm sure the pictures are worth buying a hard copy. Something about it felt disjointed and rushed
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