A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures – at the moment especially between the Occident and Islam – presents challenges to mutual understandings and calls for restoring the resources of our human beings forgotten in the struggle of competition and rivalry at the vital spheres of existence. In the evolutionary progress of the living beings the strictly vital concerns, emotions, attributes become sublimed and elevated to the spiritual sphere at which human beings encounter each other and share. Studies presented here bring forth sublimity, generosity, forgiveness, beauty, and are exalting the quest after ciphers and symbols which lead to our sharing the common deepest stream of fraternal reality.
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PROLOGUE: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
SECTION I:
THE AESTHETICS OF ISLAMIC ETHICS
William Chittick
ON GENEROSITY EAST AND WEST: THE BEAUTY OF COMPARISON
Patricia Trutty-Coohill
THE OCCIDENTAL EPIC AS COMPARED TO THE ISLAMIC EPIC
Jack Steele
CROSSING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN CULTURE
MORAL SENSE OF JUSTICE IN THE FABLE OF THE RINGDOVE
Detlev Quintern
MUSTAFA SAID AND JULIEN SOREL: DIVIDED SKIES, COMMON HORIZONS
Mahmoud Jaran
THE SUBLIME IN IZET SARAJLIC AND JACQUES PREVERT
Lejla Marijam
SECTION II:
BEAUTY AND ITS PROJECTION IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION
Habip Turker
A POETRY OF MYSTICISM: SOLOMON IBN GABIROL, MAULANA JALAUDDIN RUMI, AND RANIER MARIA RILKE
Bruce Ross
SELF, OTHER AND NOTHINGNESS IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM
Chryssi Sidiropoulou
LA NUIT DU TEMPS. SUR UN POEME DE JOAN VINYOLI
Jad Hatem
SECTION III:
CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ROOTS OF A HOLISTIC RHETORIC
Nazif Muhtaroglu
AL-BIRUNI’S ‘ONE AND MANY’: SAYING THE SAME IN DIFFERENT WAYS
A.L. Samian
BREEZE OF TAGORE, RUMI AND LALON, IN POETIC EXPRESSIONS: SAYING THE SAME
Mustafa Zaman Abbasi
WOMEN AND THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM: LOVE METAPHORS IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC MEDIEVAL POETICS
Claudio G. Antoni
TO SEE A WORLD
Karatson Gabor
NATURE, SPIRIT, AND THE CONVERGENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ECOPOETRY, OR, HOW OUR POETS CAN HELP US REDISCOVER OUR SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE EARTH AND EACH OTHER
Clint Jones
SECTION IV: IN OUR POETS’ OWN WORDS
LA CHAIR LUCIDE
Jad Hatem
POETIC EXPRESSIONS IN SUFI LANGUAGE (BASED ON AL-NIFFARY’S ‘KITAB AL-MAWAQIF’)
Ruzana Pskhu
TUNING FORKS OF THE SOUL
Christine Mc Neill-Matteson
THE SONG OF “THEPROMISED ONE”
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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