Safavi / Weightman Rumi's Mystical Design

Reading the Mathnawi, Book One
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2801-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Islam

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Safavi, Seyed Ghahreman

Weightman, Simon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.