About the Book: Kabir, Kabir: The life and work of the early modern
poet-philosopher
A FASCINATING AND RIGOROUS EXAMINATION OF KABIRS LIFE AND POETRY AND HIS
RELEVANCE TODAY, FOR BOTH THE SCHOLAR AND GENERAL READER...
As the right wing tries to claim Kabir for itself, while other conservatives
disown him and yet others portray him as a secular idol beyond religion, the
poet has never been so misunderstood. Coming from the Nirgun bhakti tradition,
the words of this fifteenth-century poet have the power to reach beyond time and
speak to us today.
Was he a Hindu or Muslim or was he beyond religion?
Did he try to cultivate a