Author: Farid ud-Din AttarPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465576592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bird Parliament
Author: Farid ud-Din AttarPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465576592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bird Notes and News
Author: The Conference of the Birds (Bird Parliament)
Author: Farid ud-Din AttarPublisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420944754
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Bird Parliament
Author: Farid Ud AttarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A philosophical poem in prose - An allegory of the Sufi journey to realization of the nature of God.Farid ud-Din Attar was one of the most important Persian Sufi poets of the second half of the 12th century. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their sovereign, as they have none. Each bird represents a human fault which prevents human kind from attaining enlightenment. Bird Parliament is a deeply meaningful and spiritual work.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Passions for Birds
Author: Sean NixonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010470
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings. Sean Nixon traces the transformation of these human passions for wild birds from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, detailing humans’ close encounters with wild birds in Britain and the wider North Atlantic world. Drawing on a rich range of written sources, Passions for Birds reveals how emotional, subjective, and material attachments to wild birds were forged through a period of pronounced social and cultural change. Nixon demonstrates how, for all their differences, new traditions in birdwatching and conservation, field sports, and bird harvesting mobilized remarkably similar feelings towards birds. Striking similarities also emerged in the material forms that each of these practices used to bring birds closer to people – hides and traps, nets and ropes, and binoculars. Wide ranging in scope, Passions for Birds sheds new light on the ways in which wild birds helped shape humans throughout the twentieth century, as well as how birds themselves became burdened with multiple cultural meanings and social anxieties over time.
Islamic Art and Spirituality
Author: Seyyed Hossein NasrPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887061752
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales
Author: Somayeh BaetenPublisher: utzverlag GmbH
ISBN: 3831648603
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Somayeh Baeten, née Shafiei, is a German citizen born in Tehran in 1981. She was raised in a caring Persian family with her beloved mom, Soosan, who inspired and supported her devotedly through all stages of life, to whom this book is devoted. After finishing school, Somayeh as a talented student, finished her Bachelors and Masters in English Language and Literature in her hometown. She came later to Germany to continue her studies and received her Dr. Phil. (Ph.D.) in English Linguistics and Medieval Literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In Munich, she got to know her dear husband, Andre, and later gave birth to her lovely daughter, Niki. Since 2005, she has been teaching classes in English Linguistics and Literature at universities in both her hometown, Tehran, and Munich. Moreover, she has experienced Establishing and Organizing EFL Learning Centres at Universities in her hometown. Being motivated in her academic life and interested in both Persian and English literature, reading literary books, lecturing, translating and travelling around the world, she got a deep understanding and knowledge of literature to write the present book: “Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales”, in which she compares these medieval literary masterpieces of the East and the West.
Studies by Members of the Department of English
Author: University of Wisconsin. Department of EnglishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description