The Tangled BraidA unique collaboration between a Cistercian monk and a scholar of Islamic translation, this volume offers fresh and distinctive interpretations of works by the spiritual Sufi poet, Hafiz of Shiraz. Combining scholarly precision with keen sensitivity to the mystic contours of the Persian originals, these esoteric verses are rendered into English without forfeiting the artistry or accuracy of the original intent. Knitting together aesthetics and

and anti-religious

Carved camel bone

Featuring short stories

or the human rights tradition in politics

an ignorance of the applied reality of the fiqh and its judgements

- Tassel at the end

the joys of punning

the giants of Brobdingnag

could transform the current quagmire into a bright landscape of great promise for Muslims and their neighbors

A bilingual Arabic-English edition

In The Words We Live By

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