TY  - BOOK
AU  - Safavi,Seyed Ghahreman
AU  - Weightman,Simon
AU  - Nasr,Seyyed Hossein
TI  - Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One
T2  - SUNY Series in Islam Series
SN  - 9781438428017
AV  - PK6481.M9 -- S228 2009eb 
U1  - 891/.5511 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,-Maulana,-1207-1273.-Mas̲navī
KW  - Sufi poetry, Persian-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Rumi's Mystical Design -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Contextualizing the Mathnawī -- Mawlana's Life-An Outline -- Mawlana's Religious Outlook -- Mawlana's Literary Antecedents -- 2. Reading the Mathnawī -- The Mathnawī  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 Mathnawī -- 3. A Synoptic Reading of Book One of the Mathnawī -- 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 Mathnawī -- Mawlana's Hidden Organization as the Writer's Plan -- The Design of the Mathnawi¯ -- Finale -- Notes -- Glossary of Persian Words -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī's Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training
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