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The Book of Z
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ISBN13: 9781772016895
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Book of Z reconsiders mystical possibilities - above all, longing for divine union - found by poets within scriptural language. For a thousand years the story of Zulaykha - the wife of Aziz in the Qur'an - and her passion for Yusuf has been celebrated in classical and contemporary Persian and Urdu poetry, in Muslim folk traditions, and in Persian and Mughal miniature painting. At the same time, as the Biblical wife of Potiphar she has been just as indelibly cast as temptress in misogynistic cautionary tales and canonical Western art. Rahat Kurd writes in the vividly imagined voice of a Zulaykha who considers her Abrahamic lineage from its estranged and fragmented reality, asking what consolation human desire and divine longing might offer our shared present tense.
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