Fasting for Ramadan Notes from a Spiritual Practice

Name: Fasting for Ramadan Notes from a Spiritual Practice
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ISBN: 9781932195941

ISBN-10: 1932195947

ISBN-13: 9781932195941

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kazim Ali

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Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Memoir. FASTING FOR RAMADAN is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from his family's cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and ardor of a superb poet. Kazim Ali's searching descriptions of the Ramadan sensibility and its arduous but liberating annual rite of communal fasting is sure to be a revelation to many…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/2021
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 193
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English