Avicenna and I

Avicenna and I

A novel

Author:Manoucher Parvin منوچهر پروین
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Description

Avicenna and I is a love saga spanning here and the hereafter; it is a journey of spirits toward immortality. Together two lovers explore the city of Hamadan in northwest of Iran, one of the oldest residences of civilization, where the tomb of one of history’s most remarkable thinkers, Avicenna, lies. To ascend from what they are to what they dream to be, the lovers seek and find the spirit of Avicenna. From him-the prince of medicine and the leading wise man-they learn how to heal the body, the mind, the spirit and even love, and how to tend to a wounded nature. They discover the path to immortality.

 

Avicenna and I strips history naked of its pretensions and shatters the myth of the East as a place of unreason-deserving to be subjugated by the West-and establishes that the Italian Renaissance was merely a continuation of the Persian Renaissance which occurred in the Golden Era of Avicenna.

 

In this unforgettable novel the future and the past recreate one another and set the present afire with passion for immortal wisdom, and immortal love and truth. The reader is invited to view the mind and the universe, intuition and reason, science and faith, and life and death with a profoundly new understanding. The trials and tribulations of the characters, even history, on their transcendental journey are recounted with a pen searching for the beginning and the end of everything-for the answers God never created. So humans must invent the answers as we have invented many things God did not create. This novel is a chapter in the book of answers.

Publication details

Binding

Softcover
Dimensions

6 x 9 inches
ISBN

978-1-588140-48-7
Pages

267
Publication Date

1996
Publisher

Ibex Publishers

Author

Manoucher Parvin منوچهر پروین

MANOUCHER PARVIN, widely regarded as a polymath, has published novels, poems, short-stories, and numerous works in various fields of sciences. His novels Cry for my Revolution, Iran; and Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits-- now reprinted--and the novel-in-verse, Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez, and Love in New York have been acclaimed by reviewers. He has been active all his adult life for causes such as human rights, the environment, and democracy. Professor Parvin has served as a television and radio commentator in th United States and abroad and has lectured around the world. He is active in various sports, is a chess addict and not such a bad cook to boot! The author has been lucky to have become prepared for writing his novel Alethophobia by an overall unique experience in the American educational system. This includes several years of teaching at Columbia University; Hunter College in New York City; Fordham University; a very big State University in Ohio, the University of Akron and Emory University. The author has also taught at Barnard School for Boys in the Bronx, and, as a single parent nursed his son, now Dr. Mark Parvin, through the suburban public school system in Ohio.

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