[PDF] When Sun Meets Moon eBook

Author : Scott Kugle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469626780

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The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as "Moon," was a Shi'i and courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with erotic imagery. Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English.

Author : Tammy Lynn Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1477181113

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Tammy Lynn Robinson, the daughter of the late Kattie Mae Lewis and Jessie Ealy. She is the wife of Pastor John Robinson, III and the proud mother of two amazing children John IV and Tamara Lynn. She is the God Mother of six precious children: Chad, Gabriel, Jabari, Kaia, Naija, and Omichelle, and the favorite auntie of many nieces and nephews. Tammy enjoys working with children, teaching them to make good choices, helping them develop their educational skills, and offering them a second chance. She has been employed with the Saint Lucie County School District since 1993 working with Pre-K to 8th grade students. ~ Her encouragement to children is: Obey your parents, study hard, never give up, and believe that all things are possible! Finally, children become citizens in our society who are worth talking about! This book is for children, but I hope that adults will enjoy reading it as well! It emphasizes caring, sharing, friendship, and being thankful for one another. The intent is for children to have an exciting reading experience and that they will want to read this book over and over again! This is a great Circle Time story, Bed Time story, or Any Time story that is appropriate and fun!

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316052604

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A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

Author : Robin Heath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0802713815

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Explores the cycles of the sun and moon and discusses early calendars and the work of ancient astronomers and mathematicians.

Author : Simran Mohinani
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781645437000

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In this enchanting tale of the origins of the Sun and the Moon, the Sun flies across the universe on an adventure to look for someone whose light matches his own. When the Sun Met the Moon is a story filled with so much love, excitement, and equality that you won't want to put down, and can be told for years to come.After centuries of brightening up the sky by himself, the poor Sun is exhausted, lonely, and in need of some help. So, he decides to search the galaxies for someone whose light is as strong and powerful as his to help him shine down on the people of Earth. When the Sun decides to take a holiday to go on this adventure, Earth is left with its first-ever nighttime where the sky goes dark and cold, leaving people afraid to come out of their homes. Will the Sun be able to find somebody whose light is equal to his? Find out in this gorgeous love story how the Sun met his perfect Moon.

Author : Mercer Mayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2017-03-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534412409

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The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.

Author : Andrew Weil
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780618479054

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From the great popularizer of alternative medicine, here is a collection of essays about his travels to South America in the early 1970s in search of information on altered states of consciousness, drug use in other cultures, and other matters having to do with the complementarity of mind and body. Andrew Weil's experiences during this time laid the foundation for his mission to restore the connection between medicine and nature. In The Marriage of the Sun and Moon, now updated with a new preface by the author, the esteemed Dr. Weil attempts to empower patients to take fuller charge of their destinies.

Author : Katherine Butler Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316517853

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This is the first history of Indian music and musicians during the transition from Mughal to British rule, c.1748-1858.

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9394701281

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Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.

Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395539637

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Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.