Rumi's Mystical Design
Reading the Mathnawi, Book One
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2010
290 pages
978-1-4384-2801-7 (ISBN)
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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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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.
Content
Foreword by Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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
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
Th e Design of the Mathnawi
Finale
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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
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
Th e Design of the Mathnawi
Finale
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
