Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer

Questions about God

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.’This is why one father began to teach his daughter night after night not only about his own religion, but about that which unites all believers, about God and death, about love and the infinity that surrounds us. This highly personal book is not only a magical literary masterpiece, but also a rich resource of knowledge, and this because Navid Kermani dares to venture into the darkness in order to give expression to our confusion. And because his way of talking, his openness, his knowledge which derives from his immersion in two cultures, are so unique, so light and so deep.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-06-23
Mått145 x 218 x 28 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509556274
ÖversättareCrawford, Tony

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Dedication The Endlessness that Surrounds UsAnd in Our SelvesExtra Section on Spirit and Quantum Physics!End of the Extra Section on Spirit and Quantum Physics!Yes, I TestifyIn a RelationshipSomething Bigger than UsBlack LightShort and SweetExtra Section for Everyone Who Wants to Learn a Little Arabic!End of the Extra Section for Everyone Who Wants to Learn a Little Arabic!From Gods to GodTo God Belongs the Orient, to God Belongs the OccidentThe Tail WagsHe, It – or Maybe She After All?The Dark GodIf You Doubt, You ThinkExtra Advance Section on Tradition!Everyone Is a CaliphessJesus’ WisdomEnd of the Discussion of Sacrifice, for Now!Extra Section on the Difference between Christian and Islamic Architecture!End of the Extra Section on the Difference between Christian and Islamic Architecture!Will and KnowledgeBeginning of the Chapter Proper!Extra Afternoon Section on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!Reblochon, Pecorino and AppenzellerSudden End of the Ingenious Ground-breaking Theory!The Centre of the UniverseA Brief Supplement about Equality!End of the Extra Section on Equality!Life ItselfThe Big MaybeEpilogueHow This Book Came to BeEnd User License Agreement

‘Navid Kermani’s Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer is a beautifully written meditation on the philosophical challenge all mortal beings must encounter. With the invariable passage of time, the particularities that inform each individual’s experience of and in the world – our feelings, dreams, hopes, disappointments, accomplishments and failures – are lost to the winds of change. We are surrounded by endlessness – that is, the sense of absolute nothingness that envelops our transient being. Capturing this existential challenge succinctly, the author writes, “Sooner or later each of us realizes with a chill that nothing of us will last. Then we begin to doubt: does life really go on somehow when a person dies, as our parents always said?” Kermani’s book is a timely and poetic reflection on how religion, in the end, addresses this question by establishing an intimate relationship with God, the infinite being that imparts enduring meaning to our finite existence. This is a work that is both deeply personal and fittingly universal.’Elliot R. Wolfson, University of California, Santa Barbara