Sufi Flights: Poems of Ynus Emre, with Judith Reynolds Brown
04/08/2010 7:30 pm
Yunus Emre who lived in the late 13th and early 14th century was the most significant early literary fugure of Turkish Anatolia to assimilate the teachings of Islam and to forge a synthesis of Islam’s primary values and mystic folk poetry…In an age when hostilities, rifts, and destruction were rampant, Unus Emre was able to give expression to an all-embracing love of himanity and to his concept of universal brotherhood, which transcended schisms and sects. His verse stressed the importance of human worth and views Islam not in terms of rigid formulas but in terms of freedom of conscience and a fundamental ethos…Unus Emre decried religious intolerance and dwelt on the “unity of humanity”. He became a legendary figure and a folk saint. The translated poems in Sufi Flights are supple, enjoyable, and frequently enchanting.
Judith Reynolds Brown is a Bainbridge Island author who lived in Gaziantep Turkey for six years. A former English literature teacher, Ms. Brown has authored four books, including A Turkish Wedding.
Location:
- Street:
- Eagle Harbor Book Company
- Additional:
- 157 Winslow Way E
- City:
- Bainbridge Island ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98110
- Country:
- United States
