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Kugle is an engaging storyteller and a talented translator of the Persian and Urdu poetry that sits at the center of the stories he is telling. . . . The key thread in Kugle's work is that literature is connected to religious life and social thought in ways that are not obvious to modern, Western (or westernized) readers. The book's great strength is to reconnect these threads in a manner that is engaging, erudite, and experiential.--Reading Religion

""Kugle is an engaging storyteller and a talented translator of the Persian and Urdu poetry that sits at the center of the stories he is telling. . . . The key thread in Kugle's work is that literature is connected to religious life and social thought in ways that are not obvious to modern, Western (or westernized) readers. The book's great strength is to reconnect these threads in a manner that is engaging, erudite, and experiential.""--Reading Religion

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Scott Kugle, associate professor of South Asian and Islamic studies at Emory University, USA is the author of Sufis and Saints’ Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam.

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