Language of the Heart: A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary SocietyThis book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential to illuminate the precarious state of the world, as well as revitalize contemporary social critique, eco-philosophy and bio-semiotics in what is increasingly being regarded as a post-secular age. |
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| Title | Language of the Heart: A Sufi Interpretation of Form (Sura) and Meaning (Mana) in Contemporary Society |
| Author | Eva Desiree van den Berg |
| Publisher | Blue Dome Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1935295950, 9781935295952 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › › Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism Religion / Islam / Sufi |
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