Sharing Poetic Expressions: Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture

Acknowledgements

 PROLOGUE: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

 SECTION I:

 THE AESTHETICS OF ISLAMIC ETHICS

William Chittick

 ON GENEROSITY EAST AND WEST: THE BEAUTY OF COMPARISON

Patricia Trutty-Coohill

 THE OCCIDENTAL EPIC AS COMPARED TO THE ISLAMIC EPIC

Jack Steele

 CROSSING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN CULTURE

MORAL SENSE OF JUSTICE IN THE FABLE OF THE RINGDOVE

Detlev Quintern

MUSTAFA SAID AND JULIEN SOREL:  DIVIDED SKIES, COMMON HORIZONS          

Mahmoud Jaran

 THE SUBLIME IN IZET SARAJLIC AND JACQUES PREVERT

Lejla Marijam

 

SECTION II:

BEAUTY AND ITS PROJECTION IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION    

Habip Turker

 A POETRY OF MYSTICISM: SOLOMON IBN GABIROL, MAULANA JALAUDDIN RUMI, AND RANIER MARIA RILKE

Bruce Ross

SELF, OTHER AND NOTHINGNESS IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM

Chryssi Sidiropoulou

LA NUIT DU TEMPS.  SUR UN POEME DE JOAN VINYOLI

Jad Hatem

SECTION III:

CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ROOTS OF A HOLISTIC RHETORIC

Nazif Muhtaroglu

AL-BIRUNI'S 'ONE AND MANY': SAYING THE SAME IN DIFFERENT WAYS

A.L. Samian

BREEZE OF TAGORE, RUMI AND LALON, IN POETIC EXPRESSIONS: SAYING THE SAME

Mustafa Zaman Abbasi

WOMEN AND THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM: LOVE METAPHORS IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC MEDIEVAL POETICS

Claudio G. Antoni

TO SEE A WORLD

Karatson Gabor

NATURE, SPIRIT, AND THE CONVERGENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ECOPOETRY, OR, HOW OUR POETS CAN HELP US REDISCOVER OUR SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE EARTH AND EACH OTHER

Clint Jones

SECTION IV:  IN OUR POETS' OWN WORDS

LA CHAIR LUCIDE

Jad Hatem

POETIC EXPRESSIONS IN SUFI LANGUAGE (BASED ON AL-NIFFARY'S "KITAB AL-MAWAQIF")

Ruzana Pskhu

TUNING FORKS OF THE SOUL

Christine McNeill-Matteson

THE SONG OF "THE PROMISED ONE"

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

INDEX OF NAMES

CONFERENCE PROGRAM