Veiled Sentiments table runner Martin Lings

Martin Lings

wearing a brand-new coat

the author discusses the important issues of Sufism's relationship with the larger Islamic world and its encounters with fundamentalism and modern secularism

Accordingly

a theory of the interrelations between linguistic cultural patterns

Veiled Sentiments table runner Martin LingsLila Abu Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle