Shades of Islam

 Shades of Islam : Poems for a New Century, New,
*[A5] Paperback - 123 pages,
by Rafey Habib,
by Kube Publishing.



Description :


Shades of Islam is a dazzling and moving collection of poetry that addresses faith, love, politics and Islam in the twenty-first century.


                                   ''You think Muslims
                                     Are repressed, that
                                     They berate love,
                                     That they envy you!
                                     Let's just say: they
                                     Have great love:
                                     If only you knew!''





          “I find [the poems] deeply moving and beautifully felt and written with
           simplicity and a profundity that is wholly disarming.”
                                                                                   _{--- Harold Schweizer,
                                                                            Professor of English, Bucknell University}.



          “The poems of Rafey Habib offer a window onto the sensibility of a
           modern American Muslim, with unclinching honesty and richly informed
           compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic
           and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice,
           which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been
           rediscovered.”                             _{---Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Junior,
                                               Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill}.






Table of Contents :



---Acknowledgements,
---Preface.

---Chapter [1]. Recitation and Revelation,

---Chapter [2]. On being a Muslim

---Chapter [3]. Love ?

---Chapter [4]. Ghazals, Sonnets and Rubaiyat,

---Chapter [5]. Political Musing,


---Glossary.

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*Dimensions : 21.6 x 13.7cm.