Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar

Author:Ziauddin Sardar [Sardar, Ziauddin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Islam, General, Study Aids, Social Science, Islamic Studies, Law, Sunni, Rituals & Practice, Theology, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Sufi, History, Shi'A, Sociology of Religion, Koran & Sacred Writings, Comics & Graphic Novels, Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781848317741
Google: WPGmAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00KFEK0E2
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

The Thousand and One Nights, popular bawdy tales, not a literary masterpiece. But much used and abused by Western writers.

Ibn Tufayl (d.1185), physician, philosopher and author of one of the earliest philosophical novels, The Life of Hayy. Much plagiarised but seldom acknowledged. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is a racist replica of the sublime Hayy.

Abu Nawas (d.810), master poet, scoundrel, companion and court jester of ‘good Haroun Alraschid’ in the Arabian Nights, and lover of wine:

Ho! A cup and fill it up, and tell me it is wine,

For never will I drink in shade if I can drink in shine.

Curst and poor is every hour that sober I must go,

But rich am I whene’er will drunk I stagger to and fro.

Speak, for shame, the loved one’s name, let vain disguises fall,

Good for naught are pleasures hid behind a curtain-wall.

Is it necessary to quote this awful poem? The poetry of nature was pioneered by ibn hamdis (d.1132), who has been called ‘arabic wordsworth’.

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