As the French title indicates, L 'Islam: L'Autre Visage (Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1995), this book describes a face of Islam you don't usually read about in the newspapers. Author of over forty books and the greatest French scholar and translator of Jelaluddin Rumi's works, Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch leads us to the heart of Islam through her own love of its most celebrated poets, philosophers, and practitioners. What led this brilliant multilingual twentieth-century French woman, a scholar trained in law and philosophy, to turn to Islam? This book reaches the core of all true religion, the personal internal reflection and the universal connection, imbued with the love that mysticism represents. Eva de Vitray describes her own voyage, beginning with a very proper education in Roman Catholic schools appropriate to her aristocratic family. She speaks with warmth of the total sincerity of her Protestant Scottish grandmother. And she describes her growing discomfort with dogmatic religion.

After her marriage to a Frenchman of Russian-Jewish origin, she tells of her exciting escape from Nazi-occupied Pans with the son of Pierre and Marie Curie. After the war, her life as a director of research is changed abruptly by the gift from a former classmate of a book by Mohammad Iqbal, the dazzling twentieth-century Islamic philosopher and poet.

Suddenly the external form of religion pales before the internal quest. She goes on to learn Persian and translates into French the works of Iqbal and those of the thirteenth-century mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi, who becomes her spiritual guide. Dr. de Vitray fills us with the love of this affirming internal connection in anecdotes from her pilgrimage toMecca, to teaching at Al Azhar in Cairo, to praying with a group of men in Algeria who fought to win their independence from her country, to the relevant lines of Rumi, "I did not write these lines for people to hear them or repeat them, but for people to put them under their feet and fly with them".

CD Audiobook + mp3 file. "Yes, I Would..." comprises a series of imaginary letters written to Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Embassy Letters were written in 1716-1718 during her stay in Turkey as the wife of the English ambassador. The author uses themes dear to Lady Mary, such as culture, art, religion, women and daily life, to reflect on those same topics as encountered during the author's past 30 years of travel in Turkey. Approximate running time: 600 minutes.

Yes, I Would... comprises a series of imaginary letters written to Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Embassy Letters were written in 1716-1718 during her stay in Turkey as the wife of the English ambassador. The author uses themes dear to Lady Mary, such as culture, art, religion, women and daily life, to reflect on those same topics as encountered during the author's past 30 years of travel in Turkey.