Poems of Abu Said Abil-Kheyr (Classics of Persian Literature) - Softcover

Ordoubadian, Reza

 
9781588140395: Poems of Abu Said Abil-Kheyr (Classics of Persian Literature)

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Abu-Sa id Abu l Kheyr is revered as one of the fathers of Sufism and the Rubaiyat. His philosophy of self annihilation in the path of divine love became popularized by Rumi two centuries later.His understanding of Islam was different nearness and understanding of God is achieved through selflessness and love. The I was to be abandoned if closeness to God was to be achieved.Abu Said was born in North Eastern Persia a thousand years ago. He was educated in Islamic scholarship and lived and practiced as a Muslim cleric. At a certain point he developed a revolutionary new understanding of being and presented it in the form of poetry. He used, what seems, simple love poems as a way to express and illuminate mysticism. His philosophy was sustained and propagated in a Sufi center he founded in Nishapur.

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Reza Ordoubadian who has given a new life to Abu Said was born in Iran, raised with Persian poetry and prose. He later came to the United States, studied and was a professor of English literature in Tennessee.

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Abu-Sa id Abu l Kheyr is revered as one of the fathers of Sufism and the Rubaiyat. His philosophy of self annihilation in the path of divine love became popularized by Rumi two centuries later.His understanding of Islam was different nearness and understanding of God is achieved through selflessness and love. The I was to be abandoned if closeness to God was to be achieved.Abu Said was born in North Eastern Persia a thousand years ago. He was educated in Islamic scholarship and lived and practiced as a Muslim cleric. At a certain point he developed a revolutionary new understanding of being and presented it in the form of poetry. He used, what seems, simple love poems as a way to express and illuminate mysticism. His philosophy was sustained and propagated in a Sufi center he founded in Nishapur.

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