Inderjeet Chawla

This rigorous yet accessible narrative presents the history of Ishq (sacred love) in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, and Punjabi traditions from pre-Islamic Arabia through the twentieth century, covering poets and mystics including Rumi, al-Hallaj, Rabi’a, Bulleh Shah, and the Sikh Gurus, plus twentieth-century voices like Iqbāl, Faiz, and Amrita Pritam, affirming that the fire of ishq continues.