Tamam Kahn

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Fatima's Touch (eBook, ePUB)

Poems and Stories of the Prophet's Daughter

Beschreibung

Fatima's Touch is unique. Biographies of Muhammad are available, but there is very little in English on Fatima-the Prophet's youngest daughter-her life and family. The word "Islam" takes up a great deal of space in world events today, so it would follow that there are many who are curious about the founder of Islam and his famous daughter, Fatima al-Zahra. How was she raised? Why was she known as the "Mother of Her Father?" How were she and her family treated after Muhammad's death? The Sunni/Shia conflict originated with a struggle for political power and attempt to exclude Fatima's husband and sons from guiding Muhammad's followers. This marked the beginnings of a family quarrel soaked in lethal bitterness that continues today. Two different histories tell Fatima's life, one from the Sunni and the other from the Shia. This book weaves the telling as well as addressing the earthly and heavenly perceptions of the woman who is Fatima. From the preface: "I write to join this contentious family through the quiet power of poems. Poetry has a way of nudging sense and meaning inside a stream of words, the way water runs under the desert sand-to green an oasis."The brief prose narration and remarks that precede each poem give the reader a better understanding and appreciation of the poetry that follows. For those who want an academic journey, Fatima's Touch offers direct links through historians and hadith (traditional sayings of the Prophet). The sources are from historically reliable books and papers. For information and translation, Kahn called upon Islamic scholar Dr. Arthur Buehler, (PhD Harvard, recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller grants,) who has been collecting and translating the material on Fatima for the last six years, and sharing it with her.

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Autor

Tamam Kahn has have been writing about women of seventh century Arabia for more than eighteen years. As a poet with a universal Sufi background outside formal academia, a woman who has led groups to sacred sites in Syria, Turkey, South East Asia and North Africa-she is just the person to bring the women of Muhammad's family forward through poetry and stories. Her first book: Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, won an International Book Award in 2011 and is translated and published in Indonesia. She presented this subject in bookstores in the US, for poetry and spiritual gatherings in Germany, England, Turkey, Ecuador, and New Zealand; for High School Students, university classes, and graduate students in Islamic Studies; on TV, radio, and to The Sidi Chiker World Meetings of Tassawuf Affiliates in Marrakech, Morocco in 2009 as a guest of the Cultural Minister to the king. Her poetry is recognized and applauded by accomplished poets such as Coleman Barks, Fred Chappell, Marilyn Hacker and Annie Finch. A tenth generation American whose roots go back our founding fathers (and mothers), Tamam Kahn is married to Shabda Kahn, the spiritual director (Pir) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, an organization with outreach in 50 countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780997399929
• Artikelnr.: 47254333