By Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Pub Date: 1999
Publisher: Foundation for Traditional Studies
Format: Paper.
ISBN: 096299846X
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A collection of forty previously unpublished poems written over the past decade, these verses express a profound nostalgia for our primordial, spiritual home. Author of over thirty books on various aspects of Islamic civilization and the perennial philosophy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents in this volume a veritable actualization of Sufism revealed in an elegant "language of unsaying".

"His English is terse and contained, yet it is punctuated by surprising tenderness. Nasr takes language to its outermost limits when trying to express the mystery of the unus/ambo and the total eradication of time and space that we experience when the heresy of separation is abolished for a blessed instant. The poems are alive, like an ocean of light; they flow, convince, caress, dance with the reader the eternal dance of Shiva. Nasr's is indeed a 'golden calligraphy' which is able to convey a definite sense of the inapprehensible mystical experience he celebrates with such passion."

From the Introduction by Luce Lopez Baralt