Tasting
a Larger Reality:
Insights from the Persian Sufi Poets
David and Sabrineh Fideler
Sunday, November 5th
Mothers Trust / Mothers Place Lakeshore Interfaith Institute
What is the relationship of the individual human being to the larger reality from which we have originated?
This presentation will explore the answers offer in response to this central human question by the Persian Sufi poets. As part of the presentation, David and Sabrineh Fideler will offer readings from their recently published book, Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, which contains the works of 70 poets, including Rumi, Hafiz, Attar, Sa'di, and many others. They will also perform some poems in Persian and English with accompaniment on traditional instruments. Book signing to follow.
About the Presenters
David Fideler has worked as an editor, publisher, college professor, and the program director of a humanities center. He holds a PhD in philosophy and cultural studies and is a student of Sufism and Persian mystical poetry.
Sabrineh Fideler is a native speaker of Persian and holds a degree in Persian–English translation from Azad University. She has translated several books into Persian, all on languages.
Their book, Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition (New World Library, 2006), contains many works of Persian Sufi poetry — and many Persian poets — never before translated into English.
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