R?m?'s Mystical Design : Reading the Mathnawi, Book One

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi

ISBN 10: 1438427956 / ISBN 13: 9781438427959

Editore: State University Of New York Press Okt 2009, 2009

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Neuware - Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumi's Mathnawi, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.

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• Titolo: R?m?'s Mystical Design : Reading the Mathnawi, Book One
• Editore: State University Of New York Press Okt 2009
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1438427956
• ISBN 13: 9781438427959
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 224 L x 160 A x 23 P (millimetri) 224 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 499 grammi

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Riassunto

This landmark book reveals the structure of Rumi's thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawi. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawi 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 Rumi'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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi is Research Associate of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, and Director of the London Academy of Iranian Studies. He is the author of The Structure of Rumi's Mathnawi: New Interpretation of the Mathnawi as a Book for Love and Peace. Simon Weightman is Former Head of the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. He is the coauthor (with Rupert Snell) of Hindi.