Victoria Rowe Holbrook
Autor von Listen: Commentary on the Spiritual Couplets of Mevlana Rumi
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- Holbrook, Victoria Rowe
- Geburtstag
- 1952-04-02
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Istanbul, Turkey - Ausbildung
- Harvard University (B.A.) (Near East Languages and Civilizations) (1977)
Princeton University (M.A.) (Near Eastern Studies) (1979)
Princeton University (Ph.D.) (Near Eastern Studies) (1985) - Berufe
- professor of Turkish studies
freelance writer
translator Turkish - English
part-time teacher
musician
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lyricist
composer - Organisationen
- Ohio State University
Koç University
Bosphorus University,
Bilkent University
Columbia University
Istanbul Bilgi University - Kurzbiographie
- I started out in New York City in music, which led to philosophy, classics and Near East studies. I trained in Islamics at Harvard, learning the Arabic sciences, and by the time of my Princeton dissertation on Ottoman poetry had fluency in Persian and near-native Turkish. For 2 decades I was a professor of Turkish literary and cultural studies at Ohio State University, a program I founded. I resigned in 2005 to write and translate in Istanbul, where since 2009 I also run and teach a large freshman humanities course I designed for the Architecture Faculty of Bilgi University.
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An exceptional contribution to the understanding of a key figure in Islamic mysticism, this book offers a 20th century commentary by the eminent Sufi and spiritual guide Kenan Rifai on Jalal ad-Din Rumi´s 13th-century Spiritual Couplets, or Masnavi. Symbolically connecting the long poem to Qur´anic passages, hadiths, and other poems by Sufi masters, this enlightening reference answers the most tortuous of problems and guides one to comprehend the meaning of life. A rigorous translation of Rumi´s original work is also included.… (mehr)