Author: Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Oriental Monograph Series
Author: Oriental Blue and White
Author: Harry Mason GarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue and white ware
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Ibn `Arabī's Mystical Poetics
Author: Denis E. McAuleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191634395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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Muhyī l-Dīn Ibn `Arabī (1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention. This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to his Dīwān (collected poems). It begins by attempting to define Ibn `Arabī's poetic style and his understanding of poetics, which is closely intertwined with his metaphysics: the rhythms of poetry echo those of creation, and meaning combines with form just as the spirit descends on matter. Drawing on a pre-Islamic theme, he insists that his poetry was revealed to him word for word by a spirit. At the same time, however, his attitude to the function of poetry and its relation to scripture is closer to mainstream medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian theology than has usually been thought. Denis E. McAuley focuses on close readings of books in unusual verse forms, including poetic responses to chapters of the Qur'an; imitations of earlier poets; poems that use only one rhyme word; and a cycle of poems modelled on the letters of the alphabet. In so doing, he makes frequent comparisons with other Islamic and European poets from the sixth century to the dawn of the twentieth, many of them virtually unstudied. Ibn `Arabī emerges as a highly original poet whose work casts a fresh light on the period and on classical Arabic literature as a whole.
Dictionary of Oriental Rugs
Author: Ivan C. NeffThe Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE
Author: Robert Ford CampanyPublisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
ISBN: 9780674247796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with--and celebrated--the strangeness of dreams.
Water Moon Reflections
Author: Ellen Chang HuangPublisher:
ISBN: 9781557291936
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages :
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"This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. Contributed by Patricia Berger's advisees, they highlight her vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood in modern and contemporary art"--
Bibliography of Social Science Periodicals and Monograph Series
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Bibliography of Social Science Periodicals and Monograph Series: Japan
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Oriental Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Orient
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
A Series Catalog
Author: Richard Abel & CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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