<p>Acknowledgements</p><p> PROLOGUE: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka</p><p> SECTION I:</p><p> THE AESTHETICS OF ISLAMIC ETHICS</p><p>William Chittick</p><p> ON GENEROSITY EAST AND WEST: THE BEAUTY OF COMPARISON</p><p>Patricia Trutty-Coohill</p><p> THE OCCIDENTAL EPIC AS COMPARED TO THE ISLAMIC EPIC</p><p>Jack Steele</p><p> CROSSING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN CULTURE</p><p>MORAL SENSE OF JUSTICE IN THE FABLE OF THE RINGDOVE</p><p>Detlev Quintern</p><p>MUSTAFA SAID AND JULIEN SOREL: DIVIDED SKIES, COMMON HORIZONS </p><p>Mahmoud Jaran</p><p> THE SUBLIME IN IZET SARAJLIC AND JACQUES PREVERT</p><p>Lejla Marijam</p><p> </p><p>SECTION II:</p><p>BEAUTY AND ITS PROJECTION IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION </p><p>Habip Turker</p><p> A POETRY OF MYSTICISM: SOLOMON IBN GABIROL, MAULANA JALAUDDIN RUMI, AND RANIER MARIA RILKE</p><p>Bruce Ross</p><p>SELF, OTHER AND NOTHINGNESS IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM</p><p>Chryssi Sidiropoulou</p><p>LA NUIT DU TEMPS. SUR UN POEME DE JOAN VINYOLI</p><p>Jad Hatem</p><p>SECTION III:</p><p>CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ROOTS OF A HOLISTIC RHETORIC</p><p>Nazif Muhtaroglu</p><p>AL-BIRUNI’S ‘ONE AND MANY’: SAYING THE SAME IN DIFFERENT WAYS</p><p>A.L. Samian</p><p>BREEZE OF TAGORE, RUMI AND LALON, IN POETIC EXPRESSIONS: SAYING THE SAME</p><p>Mustafa Zaman Abbasi</p><p>WOMEN AND THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM: LOVE METAPHORS IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC MEDIEVAL POETICS</p><p>Claudio G. Antoni</p><p>TO SEE A WORLD</p><p>Karatson Gabor</p><p>NATURE, SPIRIT, AND THE CONVERGENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ECOPOETRY, OR, HOW OUR POETS CAN HELP US REDISCOVER OUR SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE EARTH AND EACH OTHER</p><p>Clint Jones</p><p>SECTION IV: IN OUR POETS’ OWN WORDS</p><p>LA CHAIR LUCIDE</p><p>Jad Hatem</p><p>POETIC EXPRESSIONS IN SUFI LANGUAGE (BASED ON AL-NIFFARY'S "KITAB AL-MAWAQIF")</p><p>Ruzana Pskhu</p><p>TUNING FORKS OF THE SOUL</p><p>Christine McNeill-Matteson</p><p>THE SONG OF “THEPROMISED ONE”</p><p>Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka</p><p>INDEX OF NAMES</p><p>CONFERENCE PROGRAM<br></p>
