Books written by Navid Kermani

  • Plough Quarterly No. 8: Who Is My Neighbor

    Perspectives from Navid Kermani, Neil Shigley, Denise Uwimana, Gerhard Lohfink, Michael Yandell, Teresa of Ávila, C.S. Lewis, John Stott, Matthew Loftus, Nathaniel Peters, Eberhard Arnold, Richard J. Foster, and Annemarie Wächter are sure ...

  • The Terror of God: Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt

    In this remarkable book Navid Kermani - a distinguished Islamic scholar of Iranian origin - sees this revolt against God as the central motif of one of the great but neglected works of literature: The Book of Suffering by the thirteenth ...

  • God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran

    In this important new book, the prominent German writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived, apprehended and experienced by its recipients from the time of the Prophet to the present ...

  • حب كبير: Große Liebe

     بعد 30 عامًا، يستعيد الراوي تفاصيل حكاية غرامه الكبيرة، قصة حب بين مراهق وفتاة تكبره في السن، بدأت في ركن المدخنين بفناء المدرسة، لتفتح أمام مراهقنا – ذي الخمسة...

  • Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity

    In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine – a Christianity that today’s Christians rarely speak of so ...

  • Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer: Questions about God

    ... one step closer . ' Then the sheikh ended the assembly before it had begun . ' The usher has already said everything that I wanted to say , and what all the prophets have said ' , he explained , before turning around and leaving the ...