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

• Autore: Safavi Seyed Ghahreman
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 891/.5511
• Soggetto topico: Sufi poetry, Persian - History and criticism
• Altri autori: WeightmanS. C. R
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: This landmark book reveals the structure of Rumī's thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawī. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawī 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 Rumī'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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rūmī's mystical design
• ISBN: 1-4384-2801-4; 1-4416-2598-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818957103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Islam.