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Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association, Germany's most prestigious cultural award.**
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Klappentext

What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine - a Christianity that today's Christians rarely speak of so earnestly, boldly and enthusiastically. With the open-minded curiosity of a non-believer - or rather a believer in another faith - Kermani engages with Christian art in its great richness and diversity. The result is an enchanting reflection which reinvests in Christianity both its spectacular beauty and its terror. Kermani struggles with the cross, falls in love at the sight of Mary, experiences the Orthodox Mass and appreciates the greatness of St Francis. He teaches us to see the questions of our present-day lives in the pictures of old masters such as Botticelli, Caravaggio and Rembrandt - not with lectures on art history or theology, but with an intelligent eye for the essential details and the underlying relations to seemingly remote worlds, to literature and to mystical Islam. Kermani's poetic school of seeing draws us in as we are carried along by his unique perspective on Christianity, rekindling our interest in great art at the same time. We are captivated by his unique and brilliant Islamic reading of the West.

Inhalt

I. MOTHER AND SON 1 MOTHER 3

SON 8

MISSION 15

LOVE I 22

LOVE II 28

HUMILIATION 34

BEAUTY 40

CROSS 47

LAMENTATION 52

RESURRECTION 57

TRANSFORMATION 62

DEATH 78

GOD I 85

GOD II 93

II. WITNESS 101

CAIN 103

JOB 108

JUDITH 115

ELIZABETH 121

PETER 126

JEROME 132

URSULA I 138

URSULA II 142

BERNARD 149

FRANCIS 156

PETER NOLASCO 163

SIMONIDA 169

PAOLO DALL'OGLIO 174

III. INVOCATION 195

VOCATION 197

PRAYER 202

SACRIFICE 208

CHURCH 213

PLAY 220

KNOWLEDGE 226

TRADITION 235

LIGHT 249

LUST I 262

LUST II 267

RECESSIONAL 272

ART 280

FRIENDSHIP 288

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 306

BIBLIOGRAPHY 309

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 317