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From: "Knut Mork Skagen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Thought for the day
> Founds this article interesting given the current discussion. On the
> American commercialization of Sufi poetry from a sect which Turkey banned,
> ironically enough, in its search for Westernization:
>
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1634757,00.html
>
> --Knut
> --
I bought and read Coleman Barks' Rumi last week, not realising that I
already had it under another title. It certainly doesnt give you any
impression that he was a great poet, which Andrew Harvey's versions (Love's
Fire) do. Americans must be buying the book as a symbol rather than actually
reading it.
The Sufi programme of William Dalrymple was on TV too late for me last
night. And it ignored the Sufi's beliefs concentrating on the music,
according to the blurb.
William Dalrymple is interesting. An upper-class Edinburgh Catholic he has
written some very detailed and original books on the Middle East. I hadnt
realised he moved to Delhi twenty years ago. I thought he was still under
40. Look up his books on Amazon.
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