Publication
Imprint: Louisville, KY : Fons Vitae, 2014. Responsibility: Asaad Ali ; translated from the Arabic by Kabir Helminski ; with Camille Helminski, Mahmoud Mostafa, and Ibrahim Shihabi. OCLC Number: 866803694. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 215 pages ; 23 cm.
Call number
GT-I-S / Ali
ISBN
9781887752244
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Civilization of Paradise is both a collection of Qur’an inspired poetry and a fascinating record of intimate dialogs with a Sufi master in Damascus. Poetry, in the case of Asad Ali, is a way of life and prayer. In the state of consciousness from which he speaks, we become the companions of great beings: the Timeless Desert, the Infinitely Compassionate, the Supplicating Earth, the Universal Human. Each of these poems is related to a Surah of the Qur’an, as noted below the title of each poem.
About Author: Assad Ali is an eminent Islamic thinker and a living spiritual master in the storied tradition of such great Sufis as Ibn Arabi and Rumï. He received spiritual training in several Sufi schools, including the Shadhiliyyah, Qadiriyyah, and Riffaiyyah schools. He is the author of many books, most notably In the Lights of the Quran, a 25-volume multilevel poetic expression of the Quran in accordance with the seven spiritual stations of the human being. He is a former a professor of literature, linguistic methodology, and rhetoric at Damascus University and has written more than a thousand papers and research studies and is widely published in Arabic magazines and newspapers.
Table of Contents: The voice of universal human-ness / Kabir Helminski --
Asad Ali --
On reading these poems --
Nights in Damascus --
Addendum --
Purity of the way --
Genius of spirit --
I, the human being --
Examples of Asad Ali's poems in the original Arabic.
FY2019 /
About Author: Assad Ali is an eminent Islamic thinker and a living spiritual master in the storied tradition of such great Sufis as Ibn Arabi and Rumï. He received spiritual training in several Sufi schools, including the Shadhiliyyah, Qadiriyyah, and Riffaiyyah schools. He is the author of many books, most notably In the Lights of the Quran, a 25-volume multilevel poetic expression of the Quran in accordance with the seven spiritual stations of the human being. He is a former a professor of literature, linguistic methodology, and rhetoric at Damascus University and has written more than a thousand papers and research studies and is widely published in Arabic magazines and newspapers.
Table of Contents: The voice of universal human-ness / Kabir Helminski --
Asad Ali --
On reading these poems --
Nights in Damascus --
Addendum --
Purity of the way --
Genius of spirit --
I, the human being --
Examples of Asad Ali's poems in the original Arabic.
FY2019 /
Physical description
215 p.; 23 cm
Description
Civilization of Paradise is both a collection of Qur'an inspired poetry and a fascinating record of intimate dialogs with a Sufi master in Damascus. Poetry, in the case of Asad Ali, is a way of life and prayer. In the state of consciousness from which he speaks, we become the companions of great beings: the Timeless Desert, the Infinitely Compassionate, the Supplicating Earth, the Universal Human. Each of these poems is related to a Surah of the Qur'an, as noted below the title of each poem.
Language
Original language
Arabic