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"A Poet of the Invisible World is the story of a boy born in thirteenth-century Persia with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken into a Sufi order, where he meets an assortment of dervishes and is placed upon a path towards spiritual awakening. He studies the Koran and the principles of Sufism. He meets his first love, a handsome youth named Vishpar. When marauders attack the lodge, however, he's swept off to a series of grueling...
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xix, 278 pages ; 21 cm
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"Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place -- not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining the pernicious effects of white Muslim privilege and exploring what Muslim identity can mean the world over -- in lands of religious diversity and...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Saleem the Sufi, who travels the world on his much-loved donkey, stops at a Sufi monastery where that night the monks are celebrating with a lavish dinner, music, and dancing because they have been given a gift from heaven; Saleem joins in the festivities, only to discover in the morning that the "gift" was his donkey which was sold to pay for the celebration, and he leaves the monastery, on foot, a sad but wiser man.
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