Poetry and Mysticism in Islam
The Heritage of Rumi

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (AD 1207-1273) was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. This book is an examination of his spiritual and literary heritage.

Amin Banani (Edited by), Richard Hovannisian (Edited by), Georges Sabagh (Edited by)

9780521454766, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 August 1994

216 pages
22.4 x 14.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.38 kg

"...students and specialists will both benefit from Poetry and Mysticism in Islam . Amir Hussain, MESA Bulletin

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]