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This book contains the ideas of Kabir, an Indian mystic. He was critical of both Hinduism and Islam, two major religions in South Asia. The work is dated to be from the fifteenth century CE. Kabir had a strong presence of the feminine, likely due to his interactions with lower-caste women who acted as shamans.
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Kabir (c. 15th century) was an Indian mystic poet whose songs of devotion and dissent still speak across Hindu and Muslim traditions. Writing in a vernacular of everyday images — loom, river, clay pot — he mocked empty ritual and pointed toward an inward, undivided truth. The Songs of Kabir carry that voice into English: blunt, musical, and spiritually impatient with pretence.
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