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Modern Rennaissance
Writes on "Latter-Day Saint Humanist Dilemna" |
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Abbasid (Golden Age of Islam)
Wrote about Kings; battles. His poems are proverbial.Huge political ambitions and slightly egomaniacal |
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Abbasid (Syrian)
Blind poet and philosopher, attacked dogma and monopoly of Islam, where Mutanabbi praised authority. Believed religion to be "A Fable invented by the ancients" |
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Abbasid
"Deliverance from Error": Incoherence of philosophers, Sufism, and ultimate oneness with God. Fruitional Experience. |
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Abbasid
"Mathnawi": Roots of Roots of Roots of Islam. Elephant, Moses and the Shepherd. Sufi thinking, and ultimate oneness. |
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Modern Renaissance
Egyptian novelist
"Children of Gebewali" allegory; freedom of thought, "Satanic Verses," Nobel Prize winner |
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Modern Renaissance
Iranian Film maker: "Children of Heaven," "The Color of Paradise," "Song of Sparrows" |
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Abbasid
"1,001 Nights": Saucy love poetry, homosexuality, loved to shock with forbidden topics. Wine, revelry, and sensuality. |
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Modern Renaissance
Egyptian Singer/ Actress
Love, longing, and loss. Virtuoso. |
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Modern Renaissance
Female Moroccan Filmmaker "Door to the Sky," "Why Cinema?" She says" "Image is the language of the epoch" |
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