Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits : A Novel [Hardcover]

Manoucher Parvin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996

Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. In this unforgettable novel the future and the past recreate one another and set the present afire with passion for the 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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

MANOUCHER PARVIN, 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. Alethophobia is his fourth novel. 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 here 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! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Mazda Pub (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568590407
• ISBN-13: 978-1568590400
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful introduction to Ibn Sina and more., May 3, 1999

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This review is from: Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits : A Novel (Hardcover)

This book introduces the reader to the important and too little known philosophy of the Persian scientist and philosopher, Ibn Sina (Avicenna). It is thought-provoking and informative. Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in the vast, rich traditions of Persia.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tour-de-force!, February 8, 1999

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This review is from: Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits : A Novel (Hardcover)

"Avicenna and I" is an evocative, spiritual masterpiece! I commend it to the attention of anyone who wants to be swept away in a mystical world of love and enchantment. I could not put this novel down until I had finished it. I eagerly await more of Manoucher Parvin's masterful prose.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After first reading ..., June 28, 2008

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This review is from: Avicenna and I (Paperback)

... my copy of Avicenna glows with a glorious florescent yellow radiance. My beloved yellow highlighter lies next to it - utterly exhausted. My highlighter's sole mission is to catch ideas important enough to warrant its attention and robust enough to endure its caress - and it has given its life to "Avicenna and I". This is truly a novel `novel' to have warranted the touch of my highlighter - let alone demand its demise. Deeply human (intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually), it is a commanding work of a brilliant scholar and masterful story-teller that enriches, expands, and rewards the reader. Told in the context of the present, at the heart of the story is Avicenna, a Sufi and polymath (undoubtedly one of the greatest minds in history - the west calls him the prince of medicine; the east, its leading wise man) who died in 1037 AD. In this novel Avicenna wants to be reincarnated to sparkle love for Mother Nature and to heal the soul of man. Magnificent!