Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry: 41 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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Early experiences of being the apple of your mother or father’s eye goes a very long way about how you feel about your own looks,” Diller said. Ekphrasis, Science, and Vision in 13th-Century Persian Poetry. Yale Department of the History of Art, 16/03/2021.

There must be something more than just other peoples’ good favor for looks going on, since there are professional models with low self-image. If men would have something to do with their hearts and their thoughts, that are always rolling up and down (like men with oars in a boat), after sinful vanities, they might find great and sweet employment to their thoughts upon Christ. If those frothy, fluctuating, and restless hearts of ours would come all about Christ, and look into His love, to bottomless love, to the depth of mercy, to the unsearchable riches of His grace, to inquire after and search into the beauty of God in Christ, they would be swallowed up in the depth and height, length and breadth of His goodness. It appears that the subject of male attractiveness in friendships has been studied even less. However, universally people who are friends tend to share genetic links.Ingenito, Domenico (2009). “Quattro divān attuali, Hāfez tra ricezione e traduzione.” Oriente Moderno, Nuova Serie, 89.1 (2009): 151–172. Medieval Persian poetry and linguistics (lyric poetry, ancient Iranian epic cycles, court poetry, etc. ) Let us imagine that millions of suns in the sky were all amassed and put together in one sun and likewise the sense of seeing that is in all mankind that have ever lived or may yet live combined. Such a sun would still far excel the combined faculty of seeing. Likewise suppose that the Lord should create an understanding faculty in either mankind or an gels which is millions of degrees stronger and more capable than if all mankind and a ngels (or could ever be created) were merged into one, yet this understanding could not see God’s transcendent and super-excellent beauty without unseen treasures of loveliness remaining. It is an eternal contradiction that the creature could ever see to the bottom of the Creator. The Beauty of God in Christ Faces that are more symmetrical and average-looking tend to be rated as more attractive in scientific studies. Symmetry in particular has been studied extensively, not only in the Western World but also in hunter-gatherer cultures removed from mainstream media. The Hadza of Tanzania, a remote group of hunter-gatherers, showed a stronger preference for symmetry than people in the United Kingdom. Men who were more often deemed good hunters especially liked symmetry in female faces. And Hadza women like symmetry in men’s faces even more when they were pregnant or nursing, periods when they may be extra cautious about foods and disease harmful to a child.

Studies have shown that people who are perceived as being more attractive also appear more competent and successful, said Jasmin Cloutier, researcher at the University of Chicago. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 15715183 ; volume 41 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, “We must conclude that beauty is, for the greater part, some quality in bodies, acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses.” Burke wrote that in 1756, but it’s still being quoted today. As in roses, gardens and fair creatures there is something pleasant that ravishes eye and heart, so there are in God so many fair and pleasant truths to attract the mind. God is so capacious and so comprehensive a truth. He is so lovely, such a bottomless sea of wonders. To the understanding that beholds God’s beauty there is a desirability, goodliness, splendour, irradiation of brightness, loveliness, and drawing sweetness of excellence diffused throughout the Lord’s nature. There is a ravishing beauty of Christ in communion with God. Christ sees a beauty of holiness when the soul comes to Christ ( Psalm. 110:3) and He is taken with this beauty ( Psalm 45:11; Song 4:9-11). Z ion is “the perfection of beauty” (Psalm 50:2). All this beauty and sweetness comes from Christ. There is no such thing in the people of God, they are sinful men considered in their natural condition. It must therefore be fountain-beauty in Him, as the cause and origin of beauty. Conclusion

Domenico Ingenito’s Beholding Beauty is a dense, comprehensive study of how Sa‘di explores these three themes, their intellectual origins and their legacy. In each case, Ingenito provides not only a close reading of Sa‘di’s corpus, but adds significant original research. Adab Colloquium: Islamic Philosophy and Medieval Persian Poetry: Theories of Imagination, the Unseen, and Sensory Experience in Saʿdi’s Ghazals. Columbia University, 03/12/2021. Guess what: He chose to place His faithful and never-ending love upon you before He even laid the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-4)! This love is so strong that the Father was willing to give up His Son on the cross so that you could be brought into the family of God as an adopted child. This was not a cheap transaction! And when it comes to assessing beauty, many people are their own worst critics. Sometimes there’s a particular body part that becomes a focus of self-loathing.