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\"Back\"<\/a> \"Front\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n

Horace thought an author should leave a poem for nine years before publishing it. Most of this book was written more than twenty years ago and only now sees the light of day.<\/p>\n

The Robin Hood story deals with the interesting figure of the man who, when tyranny and corruption reigns, finds himself an outlaw. The Dracula story is about the dualism of our age\u2019s imagination and its necessity to believe in an ultimate metaphysical evil. \u201cAnd why not?\u201d derives from a personal experience. Billy the Kid was inspired by the early American history of opposition to banking, a history that is less well known than it ought to be.<\/p>\n

Otello was a response to Zeferelli\u2019s film of the Verdi opera of the same name.<\/p>\n

Gaelic literature is replete with accounts of the meeting between Oisin (Ossian) and Patrick, and expresses eloquently the ambivalent attitude of the old Gaels to the new Christianity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greatest Name of Allah\u201d is a story that I heard orally, and, while on Hajj, some aspects of it came to me and I wrote them down.<\/p>\n

The poem \u201cGod is Dead\u201d was conceived as prose on O\u2019Connell Street in Dublin while gazing on the happy shoppers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Colt\u201d is a much later poem, which, contrary to God is Dead, I actually intended from the first as a poem.<\/p>\n

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore<\/h3>\n

The most enduring literature of any language is still and always that which has a divine purpose, however symbolically treated, and however that may be defined. Even great political works may resonate. But with this collection of stories, the heart is foremost and the intellect lively. This deliciously animated collection of tales by master Irish storyteller ventriloquist (taking many voices in these stories and poems) author, scholar, book designer and Imam, Abdassamad Clarke, brings out the wished for hidden history of Muslims in classics such as Robin Hood, and the old Merlin tales with Clarke\u2019s sweet wizardry \u2014 sterling examples of tales told with a moral and an instructive agenda, but all made easy to digest by the sheer magic of the language and imagination engaged in forging them. Two poems of symbolic counsel for the Path of spiritual attainment round out the collection to a T (for Tawheed!<\/i>).<\/p>\n

It can be purchased here:<\/h3>\n

The Book Depository <\/a>with free delivery worldwide<\/p>\n

Or Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Or Amazon\u00a0US<\/a><\/p>\n

There is something further about the book here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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