This book presents fresh insights into the life, teachings, and enduring legacy of the Persian mystic poet Jal?l al-D?n R?m?. Across thirteen chapters, scholars introduce innovative perspectives on under-explored and emerging themes, from the hagiography written by R?m?'s son, Sul??n Valad, and his journey towards accepting spiritual leadership, to R?m?'s passionate relationship with his beloved friend, Shams-i Tabr?z?. The volume also provides new approaches to reading R?m?'s monumental didactic narrative, the Mathnav?. Topics range from sh?hid-b?z? – worshipping a beautiful face to commune with the divine – to supplication (mun?j?t), immolation, sensory perception, and the transformative role of music in reaching ecstatic states. Chapters deal with R?m?'s reception history, examining the works of figures such as Anqarav? (d. 1041/1631) and Abdülbâki Gölp?narl? (1900-1982), as well as the Dutch-Iranian novelist Kader Abdolah. The book further explores R?m?'s visual reception history and his impact on contemporary artists. Finally, it examines R?m?'s popularity in the United States, analysing how his poetry continues to offer people from diverse backgrounds a Lacanian "imaginary": an internalized representation of the spiritual.
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Transliteration
- Rūmī Revisited: New Insights into His Life, Teaching and Legacy
- Reassessing Rūmī’s Relationship with Shams-i Tabrīzī
- The Oldest Account of Rūmī’s Life: The Verse Hagiography of Rūmī’s Son, Sulṭān Valad
- Intensification and the ‘Circle of Existence’ in Rūmī’s Mathnavī
- Rūmī’s Reflections on Handsome Young Boys: Shāhid-Bāzī and the Case of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī
- Windows into Ottoman Sufism: Reading Rūmī’s Poetry Through the Prism of Mevlevī Commentator Ismāʿīl Anḳaravī (d. 1041/1631)
- Talking to God Through Munājāt (‘Private Invocation’) Rūmī’s Story of Moses and the Shepherd
- The Pleasures of Being Burnt: The Image of Fire in Rūmī's Story of Ukhdūd
- Problematising Truth-Writing: The Parable of the Elephant in the Dark
- Rūmī and Poetry, Music, and Dance
- Reception History
- Contributors
- Index
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