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'These tender nightingales ...' some mystical quatrains

Mar 1, 2014 14:00
Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
Beshara Trust

 With Jane Clark

 

The quatrain, or ruba’i, is the shortest verse form in Persian poetry, consisting of just four lines in which a single ‘moment’ of experience is encapsulated. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is probably the the most famous example of the form, but it was also widely used by mystical poets such as Attar and Rumi to express their experience of the ineffable.

Jane is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society. She has lectured in the UK and internationally and has tutored courses on Islamic Mystical Poetry for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education for several years.

 

Admission free. Donations welcome. 

If you would like to attend please contact bristolbeshara@outlook.com

Sponsored by the Beshara Trust

 With Jane Clark

 

The quatrain, or ruba’i, is the shortest verse form in Persian poetry, consisting of just four lines in which a single ‘moment’ of experience is encapsulated. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is probably the the most famous example of the form, but it was also widely used by mystical poets such as Attar and Rumi to express their experience of the ineffable.

Jane is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society. She has lectured in the UK and internationally and has tutored courses on Islamic Mystical Poetry for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education for several years.

 

Admission free. Donations welcome. 

If you would like to attend please contact bristolbeshara@outlook.com

Sponsored by the Beshara Trust

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