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Digging the descriptive texture of Jay Bremyer's The Dance of Created Lights: A Sufi Tale (1996). The weird thing is: where did I pick this up? When? Why? Furthermore: did I? Must have been serendipity. Synchronicity. Kismet. A dream made real.
Set in Córdoba, the novel gives a tantalizing glimpse into another world, a shimmering one so intimate and present yet also distant.
As Bremyer notes in his preface: "Here the kingdom of al-Andalus had become, by the tenth century [A.D. or C.E.], one of the greatest kingdoms in the world, strong enough to host and protect scholars, musicians, poets, physicians, scientists, theologians, philosophers, and heretics of all persuasions. . ." (page 9). Amen to that.
Today's Rune: Partnership.
2 comments:
America was like that once, then we brought and paid the Nazi scientists who got us into space and contaminated the soul of the nation.
Sounds like a book I could fall in love with. Got to see if can get this one.
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