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

• Autore: Safavi Seyed Ghahreman
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2009; ©2009
• 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""
• 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.: 9910778552803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Islam.