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Themes:
Modernity and the Crisis of Knowledge: The opening chapters investigate the breakdown of meaning in post-religious and hyper-rational Western culture, analyzing expressions of this crisis across opera, drama, and the novel.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s cultural pessimism is read through Pierre Klossowski, contrasted against Henry Corbin’s diagnosis of late-modern melancholia and his turn toward the Islamic world as a spiritual and cognitive “Other”.
Reason and Ecstasy: The text explores the historical Islamic convivium that bridges rational thought with spiritual ecstasy.
Arts, Culture, and Society: Chapters cover Islamic influences on Western literature and music, orality, the concept of fitra (innate human disposition ), and a chapter on the rights of women. GET the book HERE...
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Baphomet
2 Klossowski and Nietzsche’s tragedy
3 Tristan’s Fall
4 The redemption of Amfortas
5 Music
6 Goethe
7 ‘Great Pan is Dead’
8 Joyce’s choices
9 Hagarene and Ishmaelite
10 Fitra as fitness
11 Orality
12 The flux of ambiguity
13 Islam and Dionysus
14 The dance of life
15 The rights of women
Envoi
Works Cited
Index
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