Book of Z

The Book of Z reconsiders mystical possibilities - above all, longing for divine union - found by poets within scriptural language. For a thousand years the story of Zulaykha - "e;the wife of Aziz"e; in the Qur'an - and her passion for Yusuf has been celebrated in classical and contemporary Persian and Urdu poetry, in Muslim folk traditions, and in Persian and Mughal miniature painting. At the sam...