Kabir The Weaver-Poet

Kabir The Weaver-Poet
Title Kabir The Weaver-Poet PDF eBook
Author Jaya Madhavan
Publisher Tulika Books
Total Pages 144
Release 2004-02
Genre
ISBN 9788181461681

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The Weaver's Songs

The Weaver's Songs
Title The Weaver's Songs PDF eBook
Author Kabir
Publisher Penguin Books India
Total Pages 330
Release 2003
Genre Hindi poetry
ISBN 9780143029687

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Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.

Kabir

Kabir
Title Kabir PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Penguin UK
Total Pages 328
Release 2003-10-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 8184753330

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Knowledge ahead, knowledge behind, knowledge to the left and right. The knowledge that knows what knowledge is: that’s the knowledge that’s mine. —Bijak, sakhi 188 One of India’s greatest mystics, Kabir (1398-1448) was also a satirist and philosopher, a poet of timeless wit and wisdom. Equally immersed in theology and social thought, music and politics, his songs have won devoted followers from every walk of life through the past five centuries. He was a Muslim by name, but his ideas stand at the intersection of Hinduism and Islam, Bhakti and Yoga, religion and secularism. And his words were always marked by rhetorical boldness and conceptual subtlety. This book offers Vinay Dharwadker’s sparkling new translations of one hundred poems, drawing for the first time on major sources in half a dozen literary languages. They closely mimic the structure, voice and style of the originals, revealing Kabir’s multiple facets in historical and cultural contexts. Finely balancing simplicity and complexity, this selection opens up new forms of imagination and experience for discerning readers around the world.

A Weaver Named Kabir

A Weaver Named Kabir
Title A Weaver Named Kabir PDF eBook
Author Charlotte Vaudeville
Publisher
Total Pages 408
Release 1993
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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This book explores the life of one of India's greatest religious and literary figures. As a symbol of secularism and religious tolerance, Kabir is the medieval counterpart of Mahatma Gandhi, as a poet whose verses continue to enjoy enormous popularity, he prefigures Tyagaraja and Tagore. Born a lower-caste muslim weaver, Kabir opposed superstition, empty ritualism and bigotry. His writings include scathing attacks against Brahmanical pride, caste prejudice and untouchability, as well as against the dogmatism and bigotry he perceived within Islam. Written by one of the greatest scholars of medieval Indian religious culture, A Weaver Named Kabir provides all that is essential to understand and appreciate Kabir.

Kabir

Kabir
Title Kabir PDF eBook
Author Robert Bly
Publisher Beacon Press
Total Pages 113
Release 2011-08-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0807095370

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Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations. By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written.

Songs of Kabir

Songs of Kabir
Title Songs of Kabir PDF eBook
Author Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Total Pages 76
Release 2021-11-14
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3986774548

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Songs of Kabir Rabindranath Tagore - Kabir lived in the 15th Century (1440-1518); born to Mohammadan parents; he came under the influence of the famous Hindu saint; Sri Ramananda and delved deep into the mysteries of Hindu mysticism. A true worshipper of God; he emphasized the purity of mind and selfless devotion to God. He openly opposed the weaknesses of both Hinduism and Islam.During his life time he composed many poems. They are usually two line couplets; known as dohas; recited by many scholars even today to denote some deep philosophical truths.All these songs of Kabir were translated into English by none other than Rabindranath Tagore; the mystic poet and the Noble Laureate; the first edition; published by The Macmillan Company; 1915; New York.This book shall prove to be an asset for the Kabir lovers who can't enjoy his writings in Hindi.

The Bijak of Kabir

The Bijak of Kabir
Title The Bijak of Kabir PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages 217
Release 2002-04-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199882029

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Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.