This book was written as a bridge-building poetry book for everyone: readers of the East and West, Muslims and non-Muslims, the general reader and the scholar, people interested in comparative religion and cultural history, global-minded thinkers, poets and musicians and painters and lovers of the arts. The lyrics are meant for whoever may want to experience how the lessons, metaphors, and tales of a heartening, enlivening legacy help the learner to re-imagine life and literature.
“Rarely has a book been so timely as this one. It is an East-West collection that comes at just the right moment in our cultural history, now that America is reawakening to the plenitude of its varied traditions. The double role of the book’s author as researcher and poet benefits the reader of the 140 Islam-related lyrics offered here.”
— Katharina Mommsen
