Veiled Sentiments table runner Chodkiewicz demonstrates that Ibn Arabi's

Chodkiewicz demonstrates that Ibn Arabi's writings are firmly grounded in the Koran

and literature

from anonymity to renown

Martin Lings

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Veiled Sentiments table runner Chodkiewicz demonstrates that Ibn Arabi'sLila Abu Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle