Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice (Tupelo Press Lineage Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932195947 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 193 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Middle Eastern Studies. "An important book. Kazim Ali's searching descriptions of the Ramadan sensibility and its arduous but liberating annual rite of communal fasting is sure to be a revelation to many readers—intellectually illuminating and aesthetically exhilarating. Estranged in certain ways from his family's cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and ardor of a superb poet. FASTING FOR RAMADAN is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Written 'in that third voice, a voice between two people, neither one nor the other, neither embodied nor disembodied.' I have wanted to know what fasting in Islam involvedto admire its intentions and effects in solitude. I hope that multitudes will find
. program. Born to Indian parents living in England and raised in Canada and the U.S., Ali has worked as a political organizer, lobbyist, yoga instructor, and professor. Kazim Ali is author of two volumes of poetry, THE FAR MOSQUE (Alice James Books, 2005) and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008), four books of prose—the novels QUINN'S PASSAGE (BlazeVOX Books, 2004) and THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SETH (Etruscan Press, 2009); a collection of critical writing,
I hope that multitudes will find their way to this book." -- Fanny Howe, author of The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation and Radical Love --Advance Praise"Kazim Ali--a writer whose powers astonish in everything he puts pen to--has made in Fasting for Ramadan a book that is hybrid, peregrine, and deeply, quietly revelatory. Is it possible for a work to be at once modest and an undeniable tour de force? This book proves: it is." --Jane Hirshfield, poet and essayist, author of Given Sugar, Given Salt and Nine Gat