Love and Death
Publication date 15 January 2013
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CM05: Love and Death
Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death, Imranali Panjwani mourns the massacre of Karbala, Martin Rose is taken hostage by Saddam Hussein, Jalees Rahman reflects on Nazi doctors who took delight in deathly experiments, Ramin Jahanbegloo is ...
In this issue
The Culmination of Love by Aamer Hussein
I love you with a double love: I love you passionately, and I love you for yourself. Loving you passionately has put me off others. I love you for yourself so you would drop your shutters and let me see you. I am not the one to be thanked, all thanks must go to you.
Rabia of Basra lived in twelfth-century Iraq. She wrote in Arabic, but her exemplary piety made her a saint who is ...
The Ghazal by Robert Irwin
Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers.
The ghazal, or love lyric, ...
Sacred Love, Lyrical Death by Christopher Shackle
If it is death that determines the limits of life, it is love which offers the promise of overcoming those limits. Between these two great ...
A Veronica on the Eve of War by Martin Rose
Cities also believe that they are the work of the mind, or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You ...
Inside Evin by Ramin Jahanbegloo
A few days before my eventual release, I put pen to paper for the last time within the walls of Evin Prison, and on a little ...
Top Ten Muslim Characters in Bollywood by Rachel Dwyer
Muslims have long played a major role in the Indian film industry. The industry has given us many Muslim iconic figures such as actor Dilip ...