tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4401717056346339087..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: The next Rumi?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-30248567571796849372015-07-17T09:07:00.702+01:002015-07-17T09:07:00.702+01:00Thanks for that, Pli. Michael sells has a lovely t...Thanks for that, Pli. Michael sells has a lovely two chapters in one of his books on Ibn Arabi (or, alternatively, if you have access to jstor, an article, Garden Among the Flames).<br /><br />Also, there's Bulleh Shah (the Rumi of the Punjab). Lots of his words have been set down to music.<br /><br />I am not disposed by fire, air, water and dust.<br />I am neither a Hindu nor a Turk,<br />my identity lies neither in the wilderness of Arabia<br />nor within the walls of Lahore.<br />I am not the secret essence strenuously revealed by creed and religion.<br />I was not born of Adam and Eve.<br />I did not adopt my name nor can I own any.<br />I am neither stationary nor adrift.<br /><br />Can I know who I am?<br />It is I myself I know to be the beginning and the end. Neither do I recognize any other being.<br />It is nowhere else but within myself that perception and knowledge are embodied.<br />Then who is he that stands as the Other?<br />And who am I?<br />Can I know Bulleh?billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-10852494015405327402015-07-16T17:04:53.162+01:002015-07-16T17:04:53.162+01:00Bob, on the disc Naxos 8.559772, there is an orato...Bob, on the disc Naxos 8.559772, there is an oratorio by Richard Danielpour bearing the title Toward a Season of Peace, written for soprano, chorus and orchestra. The text is taken from the Old Testament, Rumi, Al Mutanabbi, and Ibn 'Arabi, though I must say that the contribution of the last is very brief.<br /><br />That last caveat is true also of Racines Sacrees by the singer/composer Roula Safar. That disc, on Editions Hortus (Hortus067), includes a setting of his Aasheq el hab. <br /><br />To the great credit of both labels, the discs come with excellent booklets, the Danielpour in particular.<br /><br />There is also a setting of Ibn 'Arabi by Ingrid Boussaroque on the disc Convivencia (Fidelio FACD-031). Indeed, the 4:58 work is that from which the disc title is taken. But no booklet, I'm afraid, and it surely needs one.<br /><br />Altogether, not very much, especially as his work would bear much more substantial settings by itself, a cycle or oratorio, perhaps.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com