Shades of Islam : Poems for a New Century

Rafey Habib was born in India, grew up in England, and now lives in America. In 'Shades of Islam', Habib provides a dazzling and moving collection of poetry that addresses faith, love, politics and Islam in the 21st century.;I. Recitation and revelation -- II. On being a Muslim -- III. Love -- IV. Ghazals, Sonnets and Rubaiyat -- V. Political musing.

"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."—Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

This dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century.

Ráfey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."—Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill This dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century. Ráfey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey. "These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."--Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill This dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century. RAfey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey