Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer Questions about God
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Biographical note
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.<p>‘Navid Kermani’s <i>Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer</i> is a beautifully written meditation on the philosophical challenge all mortal beings must encounter. With the invariable passage of time, the particularities that inform each individual’s experience of and in the world – our feelings, dreams, hopes, disappointments, accomplishments and failures – are lost to the winds of change. We are surrounded by endlessness – that is, the sense of absolute nothingness that envelops our transient being. Capturing this existential challenge succinctly, the author writes, “Sooner or later each of us realizes with a chill that nothing of us will last. Then we begin to doubt: does life really go on somehow when a person dies, as our parents always said?” Kermani’s book is a timely and poetic reflection on how religion, in the end, addresses this question by establishing an intimate relationship with God, the infinite being that imparts enduring meaning to our finite existence. This is a work that is both deeply personal and fittingly universal.’<br /><b>Elliot R. Wolfson, University of California, Santa Barbara</b></p>
‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.’
This is why one father began to teach his daughter night after night not only about his own religion, but about that which unites all believers, about God and death, about love and the infinity that surrounds us. This highly personal book is not only a magical literary masterpiece, but also a rich resource of knowledge, and this because Navid Kermani dares to venture into the darkness in order to give expression to our confusion. And because his way of talking, his openness, his knowledge which derives from his immersion in two cultures, are so unique, so light and so deep.
The Endlessness that Surrounds Us
And in Our Selves
Extra Section on Spirit and Quantum Physics!
End of the Extra Section on Spirit and Quantum Physics!
Yes, I Testify
In a Relationship
Something Bigger than Us
Black Light
Short and Sweet
Extra Section for Everyone Who Wants to Learn a Little Arabic!
End of the Extra Section for Everyone Who Wants to Learn a Little Arabic!
From Gods to God
To God Belongs the Orient, to God Belongs the Occident
The Tail Wags
He, It – or Maybe She After All?
The Dark God
If You Doubt, You Think
Extra Advance Section on Tradition!
Everyone Is a Caliphess
Jesus’ Wisdom
End of the Discussion of Sacrifice, for Now!
Extra Section on the Difference between Christian and Islamic Architecture!
End of the Extra Section on the Difference between Christian and Islamic Architecture!
Will and Knowledge
Beginning of the Chapter Proper!
Extra Afternoon Section on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!
Reblochon, Pecorino and Appenzeller
Sudden End of the Ingenious Ground-breaking Theory!
The Centre of the Universe
A Brief Supplement about Equality!
End of the Extra Section on Equality!
Life Itself
The Big Maybe
Epilogue
How This Book Came to Be
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