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Recite in the Name of the Red Rose : poetic sacred making in twentieth-century Iran / Fatemeh Keshavarz.

By: Series: Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)Publication details: Columbia, S.C. : The University of South Carolina Press, c2006.Description: 193 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1570036225 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781570036224 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891/.5509382
LOC classification:
  • PK6420.H6K47 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil -- 2. "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry -- 3. "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression -- 4. In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual -- 5. "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression -- 6. "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die -- Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions.

1. The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil -- 2. "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry -- 3. "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression -- 4. In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual -- 5. "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression -- 6. "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die -- Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions.

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