Download or read book The Luzumiyat written by Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-06-10T18:42:54Z with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Islamic Golden Age, in the first half of the 11th century, the Arab poet and freethinker Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri touched off an entire literary scene around himself in his hometown of Maʻarra, Syria. With a religious skepticism bordering on atheism, al-Maʻarri attacked the established religious orthodoxy of his day, venturing to criticize Islamic, Christian, and Jewish doctrines alike. Calling himself “thrice-imprisoned” by his blindness, isolation, and physical embodiment, he argued for the ethical position of antinatalism and lived a life of asceticism (becoming in the process one of the first recorded individuals who intentionally lived what contemporary individuals might call a “vegan” lifestyle). These concepts all emerged in his poetry, part of which has survived in a collection known as the Luzumiyat or Unnecessary Necessity, a title referring to a challenging rhyme scheme that he invented and adopted for his quatrains. This Standard Ebooks edition of the Luzumiyat is based on Ameen Rihani’s translation. Rihani, a notable Syrian-American poet and author in his own right, was one of the first major translators of al-Maʻarri into English. This translation is not a complete translation of the Luzumiyat, which even today is not generally available to the English-reading public, but is a selection of quatrains presented alongside some from an earlier poetry collection, the Saqt az-Zand. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Luzumiyat of Abu l Ala written by Abu al-Ala al-Maarri and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Luzumiyat of Abu l Ala written by Ameen Rihani and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of some of the verses of Abu'l-Ala and a lengthy preface outlining the life and work of the great poet by Ameen Rihani. The author was himself, a child prodigy and began to write at a very early age, becoming a revered writer and poet in his own right.
Download or read book The Luzumiyat of Abu l Ala Selected from His Luzum Ma la Yalzam and Suct Uz Zand and First Rendered Into English by Ameen Rihani written by Abū al-Maárrī and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Luzumiyat written by Abu Al-ala Al-maarri and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christendom was groping amid the superstitions of the Dark Ages, and the Norsemen were ravaging the western part of Europe, and the princes of Islam were cutting each other's throats in the name of Allah and his Prophet, Abu'l-Ala'l-Ma'arri was waging his bloodless war against the follies and evils of his age. He attacked the superstitions and false traditions of law and religion, proclaiming the supremacy of the mind; he hurled his trenchant invectives at the tyranny, the bigotry, and the quackery of his times, asserting the supremacy of the soul; he held the standard of reason high above that of authority, fighting to the end the battle of the human intellect. An intransigeant with the exquisite mind of a sage and scholar, his weapons were never idle. But he was, above all, a poet; for when he stood before the eternal mystery of Life and Death, he sheathed his sword and murmured a prayer.
Download or read book The Moslem World written by Samuel Marinus Zwemer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moslem World written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the World Is Awry written by R. Kevin Lacey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free-thinking poet, grammarian, social critic, and satirist, Abū al-‛Alā' al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) remains one of the more celebrated and intriguing personalities in the history of Arab Islamic civilization. Although the controversies surrounding his skepticism, cynicism, and anticlericalism have never been completely resolved, his more disquieting writings are commonly available in the Arab world, cited in standard histories of Arabic literature, and the subject of scholarly studies. Al-Ma‛arrī is universally recognized as a giant among the litterateurs of Islam, deservedly famous for the role that he played in the development of Arabic verse as a more serious vehicle of religious-political thought and social criticism. The centrality attributed to al-Ma‛arrī as innovator has been linked to a strain of inquiry that has been particularly paramount to Westerners: To what extent did al-Ma‛arrī and other unconventional thinkers stray from the course of mainstream Islamic thought? In this book, R. Kevin Lacey places al-Ma‛arrī within the broader context of Arab Islamic political and intellectual history up to the mid-eleventh century and identifies the coherencies and incoherencies within his overall thought in an effort to determine the extent to which he deviated from his inherited faith. Al-Ma‛arrī and his like were hardly representative, and their imprint on their co-religionists may be questionable, but they must be taken into consideration in order to do full justice to the intellectual history of Islam.
Download or read book The Print Connoisseur written by Winifred Porter Truesdell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Production of the Muslim Woman written by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates the configurations of power implicated in the production of the discourses on the 'muslim woman' in the West and North Africa. She argues that as a single category, the 'muslim woman' is an 'invention', whether in the Western discourses of Orientalism (Isabelle Eberhardt) and psychoanalytic feminism (De Beauvoir, Irigaray, Cixous and Lacan), or in the discourses of islamic feminism (Djebar and Mernissi) and Maghrebian nationalism (Habib Bourguiba and Tahar al Haddad).
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by Los Angeles Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diwan of Abu l Ala written by Abu al-Ala al-Maarri and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala" is a sampling of poetry by the celebrated 10th century Syrian poet and mystic Abu al-Ala al-Maarri. Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer. Despite holding a controversially irreligious worldview, he is regarded as one of the greatest classical Arabic poets. His work on love and life have captured his audiences for over a thousand years. Through countless translations, not only is this collection essential for literary students, but also those who are interested in cultural history around the world.
Download or read book Library Books written by Los Angeles Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Luzumiyat written by Abu Al-ala Al-maarri and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christendom was groping amid the superstitions of the Dark Ages, and the Norsemen were ravaging the western part of Europe, and the princes of Islam were cutting each other's throats in the name of Allah and his Prophet, Abu'l-Ala'l-Ma'arri was waging his bloodless war against the follies and evils of his age. He attacked the superstitions and false traditions of law and religion, proclaiming the supremacy of the mind; he hurled his trenchant invectives at the tyranny, the bigotry, and the quackery of his times, asserting the supremacy of the soul; he held the standard of reason high above that of authority, fighting to the end the battle of the human intellect. An intransigeant with the exquisite mind of a sage and scholar, his weapons were never idle. But he was, above all, a poet; for when he stood before the eternal mystery of Life and Death, he sheathed his sword and murmured a prayer.
Download or read book Immigrant Narratives written by Wail S. Hassan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.
Download or read book The Luzumiyat of Abu l Ala written by Abu al-Ala al-Maarri and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a selection of works by Abu'l-Ala Al-Maarri, known for his atheist and antinatalist views. He was also a strong supporter of veganism, which he proclaimed in his poems. The following lines are the example: "Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals, or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught for their young, not noble ladies."
