Striving for beauty through
proximity to God is a theme that has always permeated Muslim poetry in
different historical contexts. Here’s a look at poetics and ethics in
Islamic art.
By Ayesha Jalal | From the Nov. 25, 2011, issue.
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Let the beauty we love be what we do, there are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Thus Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th century Persian
poet, who has been the object of popular venerati...
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