Description
A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetry
About the Author
Luce Irigaray, a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, is the leading feminist philosopher in France. She is author of more than twenty books, including Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, The Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Columbia), and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger.
Reviews
"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too... This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray's notion of a community without gender wars is important." -- Library Journal "[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carry provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." -- Religious Studies Review "It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." -- Ascent Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780231052467
Author Annemarie Schimmel
Format Hardback
Page Count 359
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
About the Author
Luce Irigaray, a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, is the leading feminist philosopher in France. She is author of more than twenty books, including Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, The Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Columbia), and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger.
Reviews
"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too... This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray's notion of a community without gender wars is important." -- Library Journal "[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carry provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." -- Religious Studies Review "It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." -- Ascent Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780231052467
Author Annemarie Schimmel
Format Hardback
Page Count 359
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
