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In this collection, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa bring together leading researchers from comparative literature, history, literary criticism and religious studies to explore the major authors and genres of medieval Persian mystical literature. Breaking out of the all-inclusive literary history framework, the contributors write on topics that have energised their scholarship over time and address areas where the literary and the mystical have mingled and led to paradigmatic creations. How can you interpret the climactic conclusion to the framing narrative of The Speech of the Birds of 'Attar of Nishapur? How did 'Aziz Nasafi understand the concept of religion? What do Rumi's conversations with the Divine tell us about his teachings and his poetry? How do medieval Persian Sufi commentators add to our understanding the Qur'an? How can we utilise Sufi manuals, life stories and utterances? All of these explorations and more bring the depth and eloquence of Persian mystical literature to life in this volume.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Part I. Qur'an Translations and Commentaries
1. Developments in Early Persian Exegesis
Travis Zadeh
2. Transforming tafsir into Literature: Maybodi's Twelfth-century Commentary on the Qor'an, the Kashf al-asrâr
Annabel Keeler
Part II. Major Prose Genres
3. Sufi Manuals/Question and Answers
Jawid Mojaddedi
4. Sufi Hagiographies in Persian
Devin DeWeese
5. Malfuzât and Other Compilations of Sufi Oral Teachings
Amina M. Steinfels
Part III. Key Authors
6. Ruzbehân Baqli's Prose Works
Carl W. Ernst
7. Shari'a/Revealed Religion According to 'Aziz-i Nasafi
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Part IV. Sufi Poets/Poet Sufis
8. The Cruelty of the Way and the Afflictions of Dīn: A Study of ʿAttar's The Speech of the Birds' Climactic Moment
Cyrus Ali Zargar
9. The Ocean of the Persians: Fakhr al-DinnʿErâqi, Poet and Mystic
Matthew Thomas Miller
10. Rumi: The Poetic Art of Speaking with the Divine
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Index
