These poems were not, as their elegiac, melancholic tone seems to imply, written by a 60-something exile remembering his childhood, but by a small Syrian boy with a grubby collar and a large football, named Mohamed Assaf. He is not an easy
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Learning the Elsewhere of ‘Inner Space’
The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing in Germany
Nasima Selim
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) during the 1920s. On the day Rose Ausländer's poem was recited, I was attending a healing seminar in the summer school. Murshida Rabeya, 1 a senior teacher in the Inayati network, ran the seminar. 2 Right after the
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 105–119 (15 total)
From the Throes of Anguished Mourning
Shi‘i Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon
Fouad Gehad Marei
hearts have been crushed! Our souls are like Muslim [ibn Aqeel] and our times are akin to Kufa. The lyrical stanza is the opening couplet of an elegy ( qaṣīda ) by Nour Ameli, a Lebanese poet whose poems feature in recitations by a coterie of
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 133–147 (15 total)
Afterword
The Elsewhere beyond Religious Concerns
Annalisa Butticci and Amira Mittermaier
anguish, anger, and also hope. These emotions reverberate in their Elsewhere through chants, poems, sounds of chest-thumping, and red lights. How much of that anger and frustration would it be possible to express in a public stage or in their every daily
Weapons for Witnessing
American Street Preaching and the Rhythms of War
Kyle Byron
all emphasize the distinct rhythms of street preaching. For example, in “Street Preachers’ Manual,” Gerald Sutek encourages preachers to have “several short verses memorized on the subject you intend to preach … Three points and a poem just won't do on
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 61–74 (14 total)
Portrait
Talal Asad
Talal Asad, Jonathan Boyarin, Nadia Fadil, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara
had no formal schooling. But she often recited long, sad poems about exile in tribal Arabic that she had learned as a child; it is one of my great regrets that I never recorded them when she was alive. Although I was born in Medina in 1932, my
Theophilus Kwek
All titles (in bold), and some lines in the poem are taken directly from the Flash Report of the OHCHR’s Mission to Bangladesh, ‘Interviews with Rohingyas Fleeing from Myanmar since 9 October 2016’, published on 3 February, 2017 and available
Eleni Philippou
Abstract
“Epitaphic” features two poems that were written to speak to the poet's interest in commemorating or capturing past moments, events, or persons. “Topographies” is concerned with the interplay between transience and permanence—the passing of time, changing relationships, but also the altering of emotional and physical landscapes. The poem largely speaks to a process of loss and memory, both on a macrocosmic or geographical level, and on a smaller, intimate level. Similarly, “Thanatos” connects with the broad theme of loss, particularly humanity's inability to recognize, appease, or ameliorate the suffering of the animal Other.
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 119–120 (2 total)
Mette Louise Berg, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, and Johanna Waters
). The “Creative Encounters” section features poems by Eleni Philippou, reflecting on processes of “commemorating or capturing past moments, events, or persons.” This is followed by a series of book reviews on a variety of topics and themes pertaining to
Amira Mittermaier, Susan Harding, and Michael Lambek
retrospectively. The poet's “I” goes on to say, I have had both in my busy life. Some love, some work. But they have been separate, partial, intervening, intertwined, antipathetic, abandoned, left half-done. Yes. But. Not “yes, and.” But “yes, but.” The poem
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