Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing
- ISBN-10
- 0791433846
- ISBN-13
- 9780791433843
- Series
- Between East and West
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-07-31
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- Müge Galin
Description
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
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