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This enchanting story, set in the late 1950s, takes us from the hills and piazzas of Florence to the green domed mosques of Konya, Turkey. Upon discovering a poem by the thirteenth-century Sufi dervish Rumi, Georgiou, a young Greek icon painter, is compelled to travel to the land that this poet called home. Inspired by Rumi's magical words, Georgiou leaves his father and their small business in hopes of recapturing the transcendent power of an early childhood vision.
Through encounters with Christian and Islamic mystics, and guided by forces he cannot name, Georgiou gradually learns to follow his own heart. The closer he gets to Konya and to Rumi's tomb, the more in awe he becomes at the workings of fate. But it is only when Georgiou returns to Florence that his life changes forever in an experience that reveals the mystery of life and love.
In the tradition of The Alchemist and Siddartha, Chasing Rumi is a spellbinding and enduring story for all.
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Read More and Be Inspired By these Great Books!!!.......2003-09-08
Can't get enough of visionary fiction? Neither can I! These are just a few titles that will inspire you: The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield) ; The Butterfly (Jay Singh); The Monk who sold his Ferrari (Robin Sharma) ; The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo); Chasing Rumi (Roger Housden). My favorite is by far and away THE ALCHEMIST! Go ahead...be inspired. Happy reading. Donald S. Buckland.
A modern odyssey.......2002-11-26
I really enjoyed this book after stumbling on it among the new editions. The author seems to have used the contrasting themes (different religions, geography, world views, political complications) well to get his point across. I remember finishing my reading on a single, long night. The suspense mentioned in the preview also kept me going. Having visited Istanbul and Konya one time, I can tell you that his descriptions of these specific cities are pretty accurate. I also found myself visualizing some of the concepts he describes (such as being deprived of all senses for an extended period or the restlessness the young man constantly feels). There were some short cuts to obvious problems (no language problems for once), but overall the book provides a wealth of information for the reader about the old world, its cultures, its religious and philosophical concepts. This is one of those books that makes you question the decisions you made in life.
A wonderful story.......2002-10-21
I enjoyed reading this book as it reminded me of lighter times in my life. If I would have to pick somethhing that I liked best, I would go for the allegory of the 2 birds... read the book and you will understand.
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Kartography is Kamila Shamsie's impressive third novel. At its heart is a traditional love story-cum-family saga. Karim and Raheen are anagram-swapping "fated friends." Until the age of 13, when Karim moved to London, they were virtually raised as brother and sister. Their parents had once been engaged to each other. The unravelling of quite why this matrimonial square dance occurred is juxtaposed with Karim and Raheen's own, and decidedly more protracted, romance.
As the title suggests, mapping--geographical, political and emotional--is central to the book. The "comic" spelling is a wry allusion to its setting: the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi, a place that, as Karim observes, worships "at the altar of K." Karim, Raheen and their friends Sonia and Zia all belong to the privileged Karachi elite. Born on the right "side of the Clifton Bridge" they seem immune from Karachi's endemic corruption, violence, and religious and ethnic intolerance but they and their families, like the rest of the city's inhabitants, have all been horrifically scarred by events of the 1971 civil war.
Like Austen, or perhaps more accurately Forster, Shamsie is wonderfully adept at capturing the petty rivalries and social games of Pakistan's highly stratified bourgeoisie society--Zia's house is sagely described as "always full of people worth cultivating, rather than people worth having in your home." There are a few (well-acknowledged) nods to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and even Homer's Odyssey gets a look in but Shamsie wears her learning lightly. She manages to make Karim and Raheen's journey to toward engagement, both with the realities of Karachi and with each other, into a profound meditation on the nature of love, storytelling and politics. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk
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Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancée swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family's but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up Raheen and Karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love.
A love story with a family mystery at its heart, Kartography is a dazzling novel by a young writer of astonishing maturity and exhilarating style. Shamsie transports us to a world we have not often seen in fiction-vibrant, dangerous, sensuous Pakistan. But even as she takes us far from the familiar, her story of passion and family secrets rings universally true.
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Good history and culture primer; not very satisfying otherwise.......2007-10-03
Kamila Shamsie, the author of Kartography, comes from a long line of distinguished writers. It is clear she has a knack for wordplay and was rasied in the cultural elite. Kartography is a book about many things: Karachi, the coming-of-age of a an girl who lives there, and the history and social aftermath of the Pakistani civil war. I found the book to be relatively competently written, seeing the relative youth of the author, though the plot tended to plod and the characters were not very sympathetic. I don't know if that was intentional, though I do see a postmodern attempt at lacking an authoritative moral voice. Though the author is to be commended on the preoccupation she has with the complicated nature of relationships, there seems to be a lack of real generosity between characters; most of them seem to be operating on self-centered ideologies or personal motivations which ultimately leads to a lot of broken relationships and families. We feel sympathetic for the circumstances of a number of different characters whose lives conflict due to how they feel about the past, the future, and how they relate to each other. But the characters are not heroic in even an every day sense. They are stuck in the ghosts of their pasts.
There is a lot of lack or resolution which is quite personally unsatisfying, because you feel that if the characters were not so egocentric they could resolve a lot of their bad blood and brooding. Not only is there a deterioration of a number of relationships, but the pretexts for these is somewhat unbelievable, being based on one-dimensional feuds relating to class and culture wars. I found a degree of social awkwardness in the protagonist and a concomitant naivete about human psychology that betrays the author's sheltered approach to the human condition and her adolescent idealism. In the end, I found the book to be personally valuable mostly insomuch as it revealed something about the nature of life in Karachi, a bustling, colorful patchwork of a city. Also, as the narrator and author are contemporaries of mine both chronologically and culturally, I found her condition of being on the verge of Pakistani and English/American culture to be relevant and interesting. I also learned something of the civil war and its effects on the Pakistani and Bengali psyche. Otherwise, not really a great piece of literature insofar as plot, characters, or writing style, though it has its moments. There is some good drama and a few good ideas, the best being the eponymous problem of how place simultaneously relates and segregates people, and how much of this is a figment of the imagination.
Moving..........2006-07-28
This book weaves a literary tale that moves the reader with haunting emotions, symbolism and drama that tugs at basic human instincts. Probably more familiar for individuals who experienced the turmoil described first hand, but still real and engaging enough to be read by all
Mesmerizing.......2006-02-21
Being born and raised in the USA, but keeping tight ties with my Lahori background from Pakistan keeps me on the lookout for novels that satisfy my thirst for cultural reads.
Kamila Shamsie's choice of words and phrases really makes this novel exquisite. The love story in the book between best friends from childhood was truly sweet. I felt myself ache for Raheen's misery. At the end of a letter Raheen wrote to Karim, she says "Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?" These words brought Karim home and when Raheen asked him about falling in love, he said "There was no falling. He (Karim) was born in love with her (Raheen), and he was borne by love all the way back to her..."
This book gave me a good deal of historical knowledge about Pakistan that I lacked. I knew about the war of 1971 where East and West Pakistan divide and Bangladesh was born. However, I didn't realize that this war made such an immense impact on the lives of people of East and West Pakistan.
I wasn't very happy with the way the author portrayed Pakistani culture. Granted, it was from a perspective of the elite and extremely modern society of Pakistan; which might I add is probably less than a few percent of the population. I was expecting to find more 'culture' in the book. I don't think drinking alcohol and swimming with the opposite sex demonstrate true Pakistani culture.
Had the perspective been from a more modest point of view, I would have enjoyed it more and perhaps found the story in one way or another related to many people I know in Pakistan. Many readers have thirst for tradition and culture when they read novels with international settings. When those novels are saturated with western traditions, this leaves the reader a little unsatisfied. I found myself constantly being annoyed with the characters ignorance towards religion, tradition, and culture.
Exquisite.......2005-06-12
This is a deep and satisfying novel and the author is one of the most gifted authors writing today. Interweaving two worlds, travelling the interior landscape and then journeying abroad to find that which was within all along, it is a classic odessey of modern existence as the worlds of two individuals merge and then divide. An inspirational work that is highly recommended. I can't wait to read what she writes next.
Poor Choice of Words.......2005-03-10
The novel was readable however the author used too many words that were difficult to understand. I wasn't anticipating needing a dictionary to look up words that could have been replaced with simpler words. I felt the author was trying too hard to stretch her so-called intellect. I really hated this book actually - just for that reason. The story was good enough but it just missed something.
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This is the third book in Turtledove's Worldwar series. The Axis and the Allies began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival -- never mind victory -- is to unite to stop a mighty foe whose frightening technology seems invincible. Turtledove is a master of alternate history.
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Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never mind victory--was to unite to stop a mighty foe--one whose frightening technology appeared invincible.
Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed across the land, caches of once-forbidden weapons were unearthed, and unthinkable tactics were employed against the enemy. Brilliantly innovative military strategists confronted challenges unprecedented in the history of warfare.
Even as lack of fuel forced people back to horse and carriage, physicists worked feverishly to create the first atomic bombs--with horrifying results. City after city joined the radioactive pyre as the planet erupted in fiery ruins. Yet the crisis continued--on land, sea, and in the air--as humanity writhed in global combat. The tactics of daredevil guerrillas everywhere became increasingly ingenious against a superior foe whose desperate retaliation would grow ever more fearsome.
No one had ever put the United States, or the world, in such deadly danger. But if the carnage and annihilation ever stopped, would there be any pieces to pick up?
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Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival -- never mind victory -- was to unite to stop a mighty foe -- one whose frightening technology appeared invincible.
Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed across the land, caches of once-forbidden weapons were unearthed, and unthinkable tactics were employed against the enemy. Brilliantly innovative military strategists confronted challenges unprecedented in the history of warfare.
Even as lack of fuel forced people back to horse and carriage, physicists worked feverishly to create the first atomic bombs -- with horrifying results. City after city joined the radioactive pyre as the planet erupted in fiery ruins. Yet the crisis continued -- on land, sea, and in the air -- as humanity writhed in global combat. The tactics of daredevil guerrillas everywhere became increasingly ingenious against a superior foe whose desperate retaliation would grow ever more fearsome.
No one had ever put the United States, or the world, in such deadly danger. But if the carnage and annihilation ever stopped, would there be any pieces to pick up?
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This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
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"A Tale of Two Books, part I", or "This Man Owes Us an Explanation".......2007-07-30
When this book first came out I was in college, and non-Christian friends aware of my beliefs would use it to taunt me. I felt comfortable enough, and being pre-med I had little time to explore its' arguments at that time. Recently, I read "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought" by the same author, and my curiosity was rekindled.
I would give anything to read the preface to the first edition, because there is a significant incongruity between the new preface and the contents of the book. Now the author states he meant to use pagan critics as way to understanding early Christianity, and moreover, that such critics exerted a positive influence on the early Church. Clearly, that was not his original intention. This man simply wanted to disparage Christianity. Proof of this lies in the reviews below from people who found their dislike of Christianity vindicated in this book.
The author favorably presents all the critics' arguments in slanted terms. He fatuously speaks of an ongoing "dialogue" between Christianity and paganism when the former was outlawed, at times violently persecuted and its' writings targeted for destruction. He praises the magnanimity shown by Pliny and Trajan in prohibiting anonymous accusations against Christians and in absolving Christians who recanted. Otherwise Christians were to be executed and the author sees no problem with that. He even defends Porphyry's writings as justification for Diocletian's persecution.
Nineteen years after this book, Prof Wilken wrote "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought" which is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. It seems almost impossible that the two books could have been written by the same person. It would appear as if Prof. Wilken realized over time he had it wrong initially. Pagan criticism was based mostly on ignorance and prejudice. Christian doctrinal development owed little to apologetics vs. pagans. If anything, Christianity owed much more to disputations vs heretics and Jewish polemics.
Or else Prof Wilken had a deep conversion. I for one would be extremely interested in reading his personal spiritual journey.
So for those who think that here they may find validation of their anti-Christian views I have a warning: don't get too excited-the arguments in this book failed to convince its' own author.
Fascinating look at how pagan criticism of Christianity was much the same as today's.......2007-02-23
How did established pagans view upstart Christians in the first few centuries of Christianity? Well, as detailed by Wilkens' relatively brief (214 pages) yet fascinating work, much like critics of Christianity today view Christians: as superstitious, anti-reason dogmatists. Said pagan critics also zeroed in on arguments that Jesus himself never claimed to be God - it was his later followers who elevated him to God-like status - and that while claiming that Jesus was the fulfillment of Jewish Old Testament prophecies, Christians nonetheless did not follow Old Testament laws, a glaring inconsistency.
We Too Are a Religious People.......2006-10-18
One of the more neglected aspects of early Church history is the view of the Church from the Roman pagan point of view. Accounts of the rise of Christianity within pagan Roman culture often wrongly portray traditional Roman religion as in an advance state of decay and incapable of countering the religious vigor of its new opponent. Such accounts, based on the Roman pagan culture's lack of what constitutes evidence of religious commitment within a culture steeped in two millennia of Christian belief, fails to recognize the Greco-Roman perspective on religion had an entirely different outlook on the purpose of religion than the Christian culture that would follow and the lack of the normative indicators of religious fervor that would hold in the latter does not indicate a lack of commitment on the part of adherents to the former.
One book that definitely avoids this fallacy (and others) is Robert Louis Wilken's The Chrisitians as the Romans Saw Them. Wilken's purpose is to outline the Roman critiques of Christianity from the perspective of the greatest apologists for traditional Roman religion and culture and thus to get a clear picture of the views that the Christian apologists were countering. The book is designed to be one of a two book study with the latter book to give the Chrisitan response within the context of the Roman critiques (Note: Wilken would publish the latter volume as The Spirit of Early Christian Thought).
Beginning with the early rise of the Christian faith within the empire, Wilken demostrates how the reaction from prominent Roman citizens evolved from rumors of "cannibalism" and "deicide" to an intellectually challenging critique of an alternate worldview from the established Roman norm. Rather than a decaying belief system, the pagan challenge to the Christian faith was vigorous and powerful. Based not on an outmoded mythological system but profound philosophical inquiry that looked to the pantheon of gods as a civil norm while acknowledging the existence of a supreme deity above all the lesser local and tribal gods, the critiques of men like Galen, Celsus, Porphyroy, and the emperor Julian the Apostate gave the Christian apologists all they could handle. The commonly held opinion that the Romans' faith in their native beliefs were in precipitous decline not only greatly undervalues the strength of the Roman way of life but also serves to downplay the strength of the Christian hope in the face of a powerful established belief system.
The opinion within much of the Church that the Romans were crass polytheists without any redeeming beliefs until the rise of Christianity is completely undermined by Wilken's analysis. It is precisely because they had redeeming values that the Church was able to utilize much of the best of classical thought in defense of the truth of the Christian faith. The greater virutes of a just society seen in Rome demostrated the existence of the "natural law" written in men's hearts and these virtues could recieve their proper end when placed in the service of Christ.
Roman criticism were based on many factors: the "absurdity" of the New Testament accounts, the exclusivity of Christian claims (with one critic castigating Christains by stating "We too are a religious people"), the equating of Christ with a supreme deity, and the break of Christianity with its Jewish roots. The latter served in the eyes of Romans with conservative Roman inclinations to undermine the Chrisitans as interlopers usurping the position of their more established forebearers. With still strong Jewish communities still established within most Roman cities, there were pointed questions about the abandonment of Jewish traditions. The presence of Judaism as a factor in pagan/Christian debates is an often overlooked element within the historical equation.
Wilken has written a marvelous exposition outlining the strenghts of Roman society that in some aspects set a high bar for the Church to equal. In The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, he has cleared much of the misinformation surrounding the rise of Christianity and the subsequent diaplacement of classical culture. In so doing, the air is cleared of the many misconceptions regarding the tranistion from a pagan to a Christian society and a basis given for the use of the appropriate intellectual achievements of classical culture within the emerging Chrisitan tradition. For those interested in the development of the patristic synthesis, Wilken's work is irreplacable.
The Christians as their Roman critics saw them, rather........2006-05-20
A well-written and accesible work of history on the Roman period, trying to explain the point of view of some eminent intellectual figures concerning Christianity. The tricky thing is, the book does not do justice to its author's intention, as stated in the title. All the personages studied here stand on the same side of the aisle. They criticize Christ and his followers, and defend paganism, with varying grades of skillfulness. The match is 'played' against the Christian apologists of the early church like Origen or Augustine. In the end, the intellectual fight seems to end in a tie, since it couldn't be otherwise, and will always be.
But nowhere are we told about how the majority of the Romans saw Christianity. The author disregards the common folks' view completely. And it seems to me that Rome, and later all Europe (even a great part of the world), became Christian (how then?). The common people don't count. Instead we're given a tour by sophists that ends in a dead-end.
Which is ok, but just a slice of the whole story that I was interested in.
An interesting fact (relevant historical fact) of which I was not aware, is the "earthquake or some other disaster" as the author puts it, that cut short the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, during the reign of Julian, in the winter of 362-363:
"The pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus said that balls of fire burst from underneath the foundations, and Christian historians reported that fire came down from heaven to burn the site and the workers." And continues:
"The project was abandoned [...] In June of the same year, in the midst of a battle with the Persians, Julian was killed, and the project was never resumed." Julian had stated that "I will rebuild at my own expense the holy city of Jerusalem." It sure was at his own expense, but he did not quite finish it.
So the book is interesting, if only, for the amusing entertainment that consists in reading these smart alecs trying to prove a religion like Christianity wrong by defending paganism instead.
The only alternative to Christianism that the sophists present us is Greek mythology! Not even atheism. Maybe this is what makes them smarter -despite their sophistry- than postmodern psychobabblers.
Essential but Inadequate.......2006-05-07
This is an essential treatment of the topic -- and the only one generally available that analyzes the whole of pagan Roman reaction to the Christian phenomenon from Pliny the Younger to Julian the Apostate. But it is abominably written and often inexplicably unreflective. It needs to be supplemented (at least) with Stephen Benko's "Pagan Rome and the Early Christians."
Why do I say "abominably written"? Because Wilken is frequently sloppy about the arrangement of his citations -- even to the point of giving the same quotation twice in the same chapter to support the same point. Wilken would never tolerate this kind of sloppiness from a grad student -- but apparently it is okay if committed by a tenured faculty member at a major university. One almost wishes that the book had been composed in the Greco-Roman manner on wax tablets. That way, Wilken would have been obliged to strive for concision and efficiency in expression.
And why "unreflective"? Because Wilken frequently (indeed, almost always) accepts the superficial judgments of others as fact -- when he should stop to question them. For example, he accepts Lucian's dismissal of the early Christian eccentric Peregrinus as a con man -- when there is abundant evidence that Peregrinus was a sincere, if idiosyncratic, seeker of spiritual truth.
This book is very useful but needs to be taken with more than just a grain of salt. I'm grateful for the guidance it's offered me but surprised that it was ever published in its present form.
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