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Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari : songs of love and devotion / translated and introduced by] Lourdes María Alvarez ; foreword by Michael A. Sells.

Title
Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari : songs of love and devotion / translated and introduced by] Lourdes María Alvarez ; foreword by Michael A. Sells.
Author
Shushtarī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1213 or 1214-1269
Publication
New York : Paulist Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Alvarez, Lourdes María
Description
xix, 220 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The classics of western spirituality
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English 2009
Alternative Title
  • Works. 2009
  • Songs of love and devotion
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Early works
  • Early works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / by Michael A. Sells -- Part 1: Praising God in the Language of Everyday Life -- Part 2: Poems and Songs: 1. Intoxicated by the Divine -- 2. Love-crazed -- 3. Denudatio/ Stripping Bare -- 4. Among the Sufis -- 5. Deciphering the Signs of God -- 6. Desert Wanderings -- 7. At the Monastery -- 8. Ode Rhyming in Nun -- Part 3: Prose: Baghdad Treatise [On Sufi Customs] -- Commentary on Poems and Songs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9780809145942 (alk. paper)
  • 9780809105823 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009000309
OCLC
  • 290422946
  • SCSB-11408797
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library