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Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts (2022)
Book Chapter
Sperl, S. (2022). Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts. In B. Lawrence, & V. Cornell (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality (412-431). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118533789.ch22

This chapter focuses on the example of an acclaimed Islamic artist of the present time, Dr Ahmed Moustafa (b. 1943). His ideas on the nature of the Arabic script as an art form are discussed and traced back to the classical Islamic intellectual tradi... Read More about Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts.

Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology (2022)
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Sperl, S., & Dedes, Y. (2022). Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology. London

Though designed primarily to complement the published volume, the Online Anthology Lyrics of Ascent is intended to go beyond the scope of the book by including a selection of languages and poems of relevance to our subject which the book does not cov... Read More about Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology.

Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry (2022)
Book Chapter
Sperl, S. (2022). Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry. In S. Sperl, & Y. Dedes (Eds.), Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetry at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe (93-130). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267257.003.0003

This chapter argues that the Arabic poetic tradition possesses certain structural, thematic and prosodic features which were combined with the Qur’anic message in order to give expression to notions of the soul’s ascent which may be recognised as Neo... Read More about Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry.