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

This landmark book reveals the structure of Rumi''s thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawi. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawi presents itself as spontaneous and unplanned. However, as Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman demonstrate, the work has a sophisticated design that deliberately hides the spiritual so that readers, as seekers, have to find it for themselves-it is not only about spiritual training, it is spiritual training. Along with a full synoptic reading of the whole of Book One, the authors provide material on Rumi''s life, his religious position, and his literary antecedents. Safavi and Weightman have provided readers, students, and scholars with a valuable resource: the guide that they wished they had had prior to their own reading of this great spiritual classic.

Rumis Mystical Design Reading the Mathnawi Book

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    A Hardback by Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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      Publisher: State University of New York Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9781438427959, 978-1438427959
      ISBN10: 1438427956

      Description

      Book Synopsis

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

      This landmark book reveals the structure of Rumi''s thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawi. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawi presents itself as spontaneous and unplanned. However, as Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman demonstrate, the work has a sophisticated design that deliberately hides the spiritual so that readers, as seekers, have to find it for themselves-it is not only about spiritual training, it is spiritual training. Along with a full synoptic reading of the whole of Book One, the authors provide material on Rumi''s life, his religious position, and his literary antecedents. Safavi and Weightman have provided readers, students, and scholars with a valuable resource: the guide that they wished they had had prior to their own reading of this great spiritual classic.

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