Poetry and mysticism in Islam : the heritage of Rūmī
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Poetry and mysticism in Islam : the heritage of Rūmī
（Giorgio Levi Della Vida conferences, 11th conference）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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Proceedings of the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference, held May 8-10, 1987, at the University of California, Los Angeles
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. He was born in Balkh (Korasan) in AD 1207 and died in Konya (Turkey) in AD 1273. This book is an examination of his spiritual and literary heritage. As Annemarie Schimmel, the recipient of the Eleventh Giorgio Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies, has written, 'no other mystic and poet from the Islamic world is as well known in the West as Rumi', and she, more than any Western scholar, is his most celebrated and eloquent interpreter. The scholars who Professor Schimmel has invited to share in her tribute have all added new dimensions to an understanding of Rumi and to his impact on the Islamic world.
Table of Contents
- Presentation of award to eleventh recipient, Annemarie Schimmel Georges Sabagh
- Introduction Amin Banani
- l. Mawlana Rumi: yesterday, today and tomorrow Annemarie Schimmel
- 2. Rumi the poet Amin Banani
- 3. 'Speech is a ship and meaning the sea': some formal aspects of the ghazal poetry of Rumi J. Christoph Burgel
- 4. Rumi and wahdat al-wujud William C. Chittick
- 5. Rumi and the problems of theodicy: moral imagination and narrative discourse in a story of the Masnavi Hamid Dabashi
- 6. Folk tradition in the Masnavi and theMasnavi in folk tradition Margaret Mills
- 7. The fortress of forms: Rumi and Galib Victoria Holbrook
- Index.
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