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I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

10 best books like I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez): The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, The Selected Poems, Jin Ping Mei, The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)

The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
AuthorZahirud-din Muhammad Babur
ISBN0375761373
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
AuthorMary Oliver
This volume of poetry is supremely accessible. While it would be exhausting and difficult to read straight through a volume by most poets, I glided from cover to cover of this book in less than two hours. Oliver is so gentle and transparent with her readers, whom she directly addresses with great frequency,...
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
AuthorDaniel Ladinsky
ISBN0142196126
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz

In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose
AuthorStephen Mitchell
ISBN0060923202
Both of these anthologies, The Enlightened Heart and the Enlightened Mind, are edited by the scholar, poet, translator, Stephen Mitchell. For those of you interested in poetic and religious ecumenism, I would highly recommend these two works to you. The first is an anthology of world poetry with mostly...
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
AuthorKabir
ISBN0807063797

Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.

I...
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
AuthorRobert Bly
Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
The Selected Poems
AuthorWang Wei
ISBN0811216187
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed...
Jin Ping Mei
AuthorLanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
ISBN1596544643
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0804843937
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.

The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty,...
Diwan Al Hallaj
AuthorMansur al-Hallaj
ISBN9799373034
Mansur al-Hallaj, died 0919, was born near Shiraz on 0858, and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (An-al Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic...
Madame de Stäel
AuthorMaria Fairweather
In her lifetime it was widely said that there were three political powers in Europe—Britain, Russia, and Madame de Stäel. Byron described her as "the first female writer of this, perhaps of any age," Germaine de Stäel was certainly the most remarkable woman of her time and she remains unique—both...
A Sister to Scheherazade
AuthorAssia Djebar
ISBN0435086227
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.

Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She...
The Secret History of the Mongols
AuthorFrancis Woodman Cleaves
ISBN0674796705
Questo libro è l'epopea delle gesta del temibile Gengis Khan dalla nascita fino al racconto della sua eredità. Ci porta in sella a un cavallo, nelle vastità della steppa eurasiatica, dove un uomo venuto dal nulla, disprezzato e allontanato perché di padre dubbio, mette in piedi uno degli imperi...
Ghazals of Ghalib
AuthorMirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
ISBN0942208064
GHALIB WAS AN OUTSTANDING poet in both Persian and Urdu, though his family may have come from Afghanistan. His father and uncle both led mercenary soldiers in the service of one rajah or another in Northern India. Unfortunately for Ghalib, they both died when he was young, and he had to find a way to support...
The Bezels of Wisdom
AuthorIbn Arabi
ISBN0809123312
Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...
The Illuminated Rumi
AuthorRumi
ISBN0767900022
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...

In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz,...
مختارات من مقدمة ابن خلدون
AuthorIbn Khaldun
في البداية، ربما علي أن أذكر أن النسخة "التراثية" المستعارة من "متحف آل الغرياني" -على حد تعبير "الزوار"- كانت سبب في زيادة أهمية قراءتي لهذا الكتاب، وسبب في...
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