So he began translating his favorite poetry from Islam’s mystical Sufi tradition to send to her. “You know, you should publish this,” she told him after a few years.

Arabic love poetry refers to a certain kind of theme, mood, and genre of poem. Sells, the John Henry Barrows professor of Islamic history and literature at the Divinity School of the University of ...

Partly as a result, wine drinking became one of the great subjects of poetry under the classical Islamic caliphate. Some of this poetry was written by caliphs themselves—the Caliph al-Walid ibn ...

As a prominent Islamic scholar, Omid Safi has written often in defense of the breadth and nuance of Islam. But for his latest book, Safi hones in on the idea of love, and how mystic Islamic poets ...

Poetry – the lyrical, romantic kind, the type that extols the mystical life and that speaks to universal human concerns – remains very important within Arab-Islamic culture.

The ASU Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies is one of the great examples of the diversity of our campus. The Council was founded by Arabic literature professor Souad Ali . Ali is one of the main ...