Ridgeon Rumi and the Divan-i Shams

Innovation and Continuity in Thirteenth-Century Persian Sufism
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-224784-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Persian, Band 12, 299 Seiten

Reihe: Sufism Studies

This monograph responds to all the publications about Rumi’s poetry that have appeared in recent years. Many of those are non-academic, devotional works that present Rumi’s wisdom as an answer to a modern society’s contemporary malaise. However, this decontextualizes Rumi and presents him as an ahistorical figure who transcended Islam and Sufism. The aim of this book, Rumi, is to present Rumi as a thirteenth century Sufi who engaged with his traditions and the worldviews, prejudices and suppositions of his time. Of necessity, the views of Sufis from a similar period are considered to determine to what extent, if any, Rumi may be considered an innovative and original Sufi. All this is carried out by examining Rumi’s love odes (ghazals) as collected in the (also known popularly as the ), rather than the The is regarded as Rumi’s personal statement, and reflects a perspective from the heart. The book contains chapters on his Sufi influences, the nature of his Sufism (whether it was antinomian or not), and on Sufi ritual performance and theology. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ridgeon, Lloyd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Tokyo, Japan