Lost in a Sea of Letters

Cyril Villarosa Uy II

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
24 April 2025
Pages
350
ISBN
9789004725065

Lost in a Sea of Letters

Cyril Villarosa Uy II

In Lost in a Sea of Letters, Cyril Uy explores the life and work of Sa?d al-Din ?amuya (d. 1252), a Mongol-era Sufi whose arcane treatises inspired generations of mystics and messiahs. Reading ?amuya in dialogue with contemporaries across Central Asia, Iran, and the Eastern Mediterranean, Uy excavates a world in which knowledge was an embodied sensibility: a way of being that could improvise across all dimensions of human experience. ?amuya's performative writing reworked the foundations of this knowledge, provoking readers to live reality through the cacophony of his Sufi free jazz. Foregrounding ?amuya's deconstructive ethos and radical openness to interpretation, Uy reveals how embracing plurality could thrive as a mode of social, intellectual, and spiritual competition.

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