Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.
Contents:
Etudes in ecstasy: leitmotifs of Rūmī's poetics : the symphony of Rūmī / -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei -- Principles of the philosophy of ecstasy in Rūmī's poetry / Leonard Lewisohn -- RŪmī's sufi ecumenism "one shrine alone": Christians, sufis, and the vision of Mawlānā / Roderick Grierson -- The contemporary relevance of Rūmī's language of the soul / Kabir Helminski -- Historical and theological perspectives on Rūmī's oeuvre: towards a chronology of the poems in the Dīvān-i shams: A prolegomenon for a periodization of Rūmī's literary oeuvre / Franklin Lewis -- The revival of the spiritual dimension of the sunna in Rūmī's Mathnawī / Shahram Pazouki -- From Rūmī's Mathnawī to the popular stage / Iraj Anvar & Peter Chelkowski -- Designs of love: sense and structure in Rūmī's Mathnawī -- Open heart surgery: the poetic operation of love in Rūmī's mathnawī / Alan Williams -- The ascension of the word: rhetoric and reader engagement in Rūmī's Mathnawī / James W. Morris -- Wakened by the dove's trill: structure and meaning in the preface to Rūmī's Mathnawī, book IV / Carl W. Ernst) -- Spiritual progression in books one and two of the Mathnawī / Simon Weightman -- In memoriam: Gökalp Kâmil / Roderick Grierson.
Series:
The library of perennial philosophy Spiritual masters : East & West series
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