LEADER 03883nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818957103321 005 20240417032202.0 010 $a1-4384-2801-4 010 $a1-4416-2598-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438428017 035 $a(CKB)1000000000806177 035 $a(EBL)3407079 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239998 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239998 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10250938 035 $a(PQKB)10180042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407079 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407079 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10573940 035 $a(OCoLC)923398759 035 $a(DE-B1597)681847 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438428017 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000806177 100 $a20081201h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRu?mi?'s mystical design $ereading the Mathnawi?, book one /$fSeyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAlbany :$cSUNY Press,$d2009. 210 $aŠ2009 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aSUNY series in Islam 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4384-2795-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Rumi's Mystical Design""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Contextualizing the Mathnawi?""; ""Mawlana's Life: An Outline""; ""Mawlana's Religious Outlook""; ""Mawlana's Literary Antecedents""; ""2. Reading the Mathnawi?""; ""The Mathnawi? 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 Mathnawi?""; ""3. A Synoptic Reading of Book One of the Mathnawi?"" 327 $a""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 Mathnawi?""; ""Mawlana's Hidden Organization as the Writer's Plan""; ""The Design of the Mathnawi?"?"; ""Finale""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Persian Words""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aThis landmark book reveals the structure of Rum?'s thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnaw?. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnaw? presents itself as spontaneous and unplanned. However, as Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman demonstrate, the work has a sophisticated design that deliberately hides the spiritual so that readers, as seekers, have to find it for themselves?it is not only about spiritual training, it is spiritual training. Along with a full synoptic reading of the whole of Book One, the authors provide material on Rum?'s life, his religious position, and his literary antecedents. Safavi and Weightman have provided readers, students, and scholars with a valuable resource: the guide that they wished they had had prior to their own reading of this great spiritual classic. 410 0$aSUNY series in Islam. 606 $aSufi poetry, Persian$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSufi poetry, Persian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891/.5511 700 $aSafavi$b Seyed Ghahreman$01630256 701 $aWeightman$b S. C. R$0638093 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818957103321 996 $aRu?mi?'s mystical design$93968442 997 $aUNINA