Soufi Mon Amour

Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago and Sweden. The contributors look at the global spread and stance of such major actors as the Ba 'Alawiyya, the 'Afropolitan' Tijaniyya, and the Gülen Movement. They map global Sufi culture, from Rumi to rap, and ask how global Sufism accommodates different and contradictory gender practices. They examine the contested and shifting relationship between the Islamic and the universal: is Sufism the timeless and universal essence of all religions, the key to tolerance and co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims? Or is it the purely Islamic heart of traditional and authentic practice and belief? Finally, the book turns to politics. States and political actors in the West and in the Muslim world are using the mantle and language of Sufism to promote their objectives, while Sufis are building alliances with them against common enemies. This raises the difficult question of whether Sufis are defending Islam against extremism, supporting despotism against democracy, or perhaps doing both.

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Une petite vietnamienne est adoptée en 1963 et vient en France.Elle connaitra le drame de son pays d'origine, la mort de son papa adoptif lorsqu'elle avait 11 ans, les conflits familiaux puis conjugaux avant de tomber dans le piège festif de l'alcool. Elle sera entrainé dans un engrenage où elle perdra tout, son couple, ses enfants, son travail d'infirmière, et connaitra les manipulateurs, les profiteurs avant de rencontrer l'Amour, celui qui fait qu'un couple ne fait plus qu'un dans le respect, la confiance et l'épanouissement de chacun. Elle connaitra enfin la résurgence de sa personnalité hors de l'alcool.

Auf der Suche nach den Spuren einer algerischen Identitat taucht die mehrfach preisgekronte algerische Schriftstellerin, Historikerin und Filmemacherin Assia Djebar in ihren Romanen, Kurzgeschichten und Filmen in die Tiefen eines postkolonialen Raumes ein. Dieser ist ebenso gepragt durch dunkle und abgelagerte Schichten des lange Vergessenen, wie er zugleich die Oberflache der Gegenwart im Sprung auf die Zukunft hin tangiert. Djebar spurt einer paradoxen Hassliebe der Kulturen nach, die aus der kolonialen Situation entsprungen ist und sowohl die algerische als auch die franzosische Identitat pragt. Ihre postkoloniale Literatur entwirft einen Raum zwischen den Kulturen, innerhalb dessen sie ihr Schreiben uber Geschichte praktiziert. Geschichtsarbeit ist hier sowohl Dekonstruktion bekannter Geschichtsbilder wie innovative Montage. Das Buch umspannt die Schaffensperiode der Autorin von 1980 bis 2003 und thematisiert unter anderem die algerische Kolonialgeschichte sowie die politischen Spannungen der 1990er Jahre zwischen Islamismus und Nationalstaat.

Originally published in 1906, this book provides a full text, in the original French, of the seventeenth-century drama Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. The book begins with a biography of the playwright and of the original Le Cid, as well as notes on the linguistic, literary and historical content of the play.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863. A Life related by one who has witnessed it. Including a drama in three acts, entitled Inez de Castro, and other unpublished works. In two volumes.

This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

An 1831 two-volume selection of letters to and from the acclaimed eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, including a biographical account.

This book will present close readings of three contemporary Arabic novelists - an Egyptian (Gamal Al-Ghitany), an Algerian (Taher Ouettar) and a Touareg Libyan (Ibrahim Al-Koni) - who have all turned to Sufism as a literary strategy aimed at negotiating i

This volume explores the relation between ethics and spirituality in Islam through an examination of the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until modernity.