Rūmī's Mystical Design : Reading the Mathnawi, Book One.

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.

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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