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The Illuminated Prayer

The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis

The Illuminated Prayer( )
Author: Barks, Coleman
Green, Michael
Wellspring, Ballantine
ISBN:978-0-345-43545-3
Publication Date:Feb 2000
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Ballantine Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $47.95
Book Description:

The Prayer is a drawing of the curtain, an invitation to a secret place that is discovered and explored. . . . According to tradition and the testimony of Sufi mystics, The Prayer--or Salat--was first taught by the angels, who themselves practiced it in celestial adoration. The Prayer is God's gift to all humankind, and in this gorgeously illustrated volume, its simple, archetypal practice unfolds like a fragrant, many-petaled flower, joining words and movements into a...
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Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Islam / Rituals & Practice
Religion / Islam / Sufi
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.3 x 22.174 x 1.499 cm
Book Weight:0.392 Kilograms
Author Biography
Barks, Coleman (Author)
Coleman Barks was born on April 23, 1937, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1972 he has taught English at the University of Georgia at Athens.

Barks received the New England/Breadloaf Quarterly Narrative Poem Prize and the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Award. His collections of poetry include The Juice and Gourd Seed. Barks is perhaps better known as a translator of the poet Rumi, a thirteenth century Mystic. Rumi is cpnsidered the greatest mystic of the Sufi religion and wrote extensively in Farsi, the language of Iran.

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