Rūmī's Mystical Design : Reading the Mathnawi, Book One - Seyed Ghahreman Safavi

Rūmī's Mystical Design

Reading the Mathnawi, Book One

By: Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Foreword by)

Paperback | 1 January 2009

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This landmark book reveals the structure of Rūmī's thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawī. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawī 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 Rūmī'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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"This is possibly the best explanation of the significance of the entire work ever written, certainly so in English. The authors bring out dimensions of the ornate and sophisticated structure of the Mathnawi, of which other authors have had at best only inklings." - William C. Chittick, author of The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi

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