Sharing Poetic Expressions: Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic an
A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures – at the moment especially between the Occident and Islam – pre
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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue
VOLUME 6 Editor-in-Chief: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Executive Committee of The Center for the Promotion of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Dennis Logue, Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Emeritus Alexander Schimmelpenninck, Vice President Publishing, Springer Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor, George Washington University President: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Assessor: Salahaddin Khalilov, Professor of Philosophy, Rector, Azerbaijan University
Sharing Poetic Expressions Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture
Edited by
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, and, The Center for the Promotion of Cross-Cultural Understanding, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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Editor Prof. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning The Center for the Promotion of Cross-Cultural Understanding Ivy Pointe Way 1 03755 NH Hanover USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0759-7 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0760-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0760-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925925 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We present here a collected volume of essays read at the first meeting of the founded CENTER FOR THE PROMOTION OF CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING which took place on August 13 and 14, 2009 on the topic of POETIC EXPRESSIONS: SAYING THE SAME IN DIFFERENT WAYS, BEAUTY, SUBLIME, CREATIVITY IN ISLAMIC AND OCCIDENTAL CULTURE. In the Prologue we shall explain the history and Mission Statement presiding over the founding Center. We owe thanks to the speakers who have offered us their essays for this beautiful and unique collection. Mr. Nazif Muhtaroglu, of the University of Kentucky, served with expertise as Secretary General of the meeting with Mr. Louis Tymieniecki Houthakker as his assistant. As usually, Mr. Jeffrey Hurlburt has performed the administrative work. All of them merit our thanks. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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PROLOGUE
1. H I S T O R I C A L P R O F I L E
It is with joy that we present to the public the first fruit of our work in the newly founded CENTER FOR THE PROMOTION OF CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING. This institution joining our Islamic metaphysics and Phenomenology program of the World Phenomenology Institute has been founded in a meeting which took place on January 27 and 28, 2007 at the Harvard Divinity School with the following members: Professor Nargiz Arif
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