East-West Poetry: A Western Poet Responds to Islamic Tradition in Sonnets, Hymns, and Songs

By Martin Bidney

Poetry that responds to the Qur'an and to the tradition it created.

Written for the general reader and the specialist, Muslim and non-Muslim, East-West Poetry responds to the Qur'an, scriptural heart of Islam, and to the tradition it created. An introduction relates the Qur'an to Hebrew and Christian biblical writing and to Rumi, who illumined the Qur'an with Sufi mystic wisdom; and we sample earlier Western poetic celebrations of Islamic culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586842757
• ISBN13: 9781586842758
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Distribution Partners
• Length: 235 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher