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Rūmī's Mystical Design
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.
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Romancing the Sufi: Persian Sufi Poetry under the Western Gaze
The paper presents an argument against the problematic comparison of the Sufi poetry with Romanticism that is found among some of the most noted comparatists. It emphasizes the need to put both discourses within their corresponding traditional provenances for comparative purposes. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section traces some major milestones in the history of Western reception of the Persian Sufi poetry while questioning the hypothetical subsuming of the Sufi literary tradition, along with the Romantic, under the Platonic and the Neo-Platonic discourses. The second section deals with the religious provenance of Romanticism and its relationship with the Islamic tradition. The study maintains that it is the Islamic tradition that provides the theoretical framework for the Sufi literary practice. Finally, based upon the theoretical discussion in the first two sections, the last section of the paper elaborates the underlying divergences between some apparently similar notions in Tasawwuf and Romanticism through closer reading of selected passages from Rumi, Keats, and Wordsworth.
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