Shades of Islam (eBook)

Poems for a New Century

Rafey Habib (Autor)

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2016
112 Seiten
Kube Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84774-099-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A dazzling and moving new collection of poems addressing faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century.

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"e;These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."e;Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel HillThis dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century.Rfey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Autor

lt;div>Rafey Habib: Rafey Habib was born in India, grew up in England and now lives in America. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is currently Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of six books, including A History Of Literary Criticism: From Plato To The Present (2005) and An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry in English Translation. He is currently editing the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol VI and the Oxford Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory.