The philosophy of ecstasy : Rumi and the sufi tradition / edited by Leonard Lewisohn
2014, First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana : World Wisdom. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #442569
ISBN: 9781936597420
Physical description; xxii, 319 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index. Contents; Etudes in ecstasy: leitmotifs of R m 's poetics : the symphony of R m / -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei -- Principles of the philosophy of ecstasy in R m 's poetry / Leonard Lewisohn -- R m 's sufi ecumenism "one shrine alone": Christians, sufis, and the vision of Mawl n / Roderick Grierson -- The contemporary relevance of R m 's language of the soul / Kabir Helminski -- Historical and theological perspectives on R m 's oeuvre: towards a chronology of the poems in the D v n-i shams: A prolegomenon for a periodization of R m 's literary oeuvre / Franklin Lewis -- The revival of the spiritual dimension of the sunna in R m 's Mathnaw / Shahram Pazouki -- From R m 's Mathnaw to the popular stage / Iraj Anvar & Peter Chelkowski -- Designs of love: sense and structure in R m 's Mathnaw -- Open heart surgery: the poetic operation of love in R m 's mathnaw / Alan Williams -- The ascension of the word: rhetoric and reader engagement in R m 's Mathnaw / James W. Morris -- Wakened by the dove's trill: structure and meaning in the preface to R m 's Mathnaw , book IV / Carl W. Ernst) -- Spiritual progression in books one and two of the Mathnaw / Simon Weightman -- In memoriam: Gökalp Kâmil / Roderick Grierson. Subjects; Jal l al-D n R m Maulana 1207-1273 Criticism and interpretation. Jal l al-D n R m Maulana 1207-1273 Mas nav . Jal l al-D n R m Maulana 1207-1273. Sufi poetry, Persian History and criticism. Sufism History. Mevleviyeh. Sufi poetry, Persian. Sufism.
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