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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778552803321

Autore

Safavi Seyed Ghahreman

Titolo

Rūmī's mystical design : reading the Mathnawī, book one / / Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4384-2801-4

1-4416-2598-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SUNY series in Islam

Altri autori (Persone)

WeightmanS. C. R

Disciplina

891/.5511

Soggetti

Sufi poetry, Persian - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Rumi's Mystical Design""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Contextualizing the Mathnawī""; ""Mawlana's Life: An Outline""; ""Mawlana's Religious Outlook""; ""Mawlana's Literary Antecedents""; ""2. Reading the Mathnawī""; ""The Mathnawī  as Given""; ""The Question of Structure""; ""Some Further Considerations""; ""Synoptic Reading and the Principles of Parallelism and Chiasmus""; ""Rhetorical Latency""; ""Two Iranian Exemplars""; ""The Synoptic Reading of Book One of the Mathnawī""; ""3. A Synoptic Reading of Book One of the Mathnawī""

""4. Book One as a Whole and as a Part"" ""The Synoptic Analysis of Book One as a Whole""; ""The Rationale of Book One as a Whole""; ""The Linear and the Nonlinear Ordering of Book One""; ""Book One as a Part""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""How Mawlana Composed the Mathnawī""; ""Mawlana's Hidden Organization as the Writer's Plan""; ""The Design of the Mathnawī"̄"; ""Finale""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Persian Words""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""