The philosophy of ecstasy : Rumi and the sufi tradition / edited by Leonard Lewisohn

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxii, 319 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index. Contents; Etudes in ecstasy: leitmotifs of R?m?'s poetics : the symphony of R?m? / -- Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei -- Principles of the philosophy of ecstasy in R?m?'s poetry / Leonard Lewisohn -- R?m?'s sufi ecumenism "one shrine alone": Christians, sufis, and the vision of Mawl?n? / Roderick Grierson -- The contemporary relevance of R?m?'s language of the soul / Kabir Helminski -- Historical and theological perspectives on R?m?'s oeuvre: towards a chronology of the poems in the D?v?n-i shams: A prolegomenon for a periodization of R?m?'s literary oeuvre / Franklin Lewis -- The revival of the spiritual dimension of the sunna in R?m?'s Mathnaw? / Shahram Pazouki -- From R?m?'s Mathnaw? to the popular stage / Iraj Anvar & Peter Chelkowski -- Designs of love: sense and structure in R?m?'s Mathnaw? -- Open heart surgery: the poetic operation of love in R?m?'s mathnaw? / Alan Williams -- The ascension of the word: rhetoric and reader engagement in R?m?'s Mathnaw? / James W. Morris -- Wakened by the dove's trill: structure and meaning in the preface to R?m?'s Mathnaw?, book IV / Carl W. Ernst) -- Spiritual progression in books one and two of the Mathnaw? / Simon Weightman -- In memoriam: Gökalp Kâmil / Roderick Grierson. Subjects; Jal?l al-D?n R?m? Maulana 1207-1273 Criticism and interpretation. Jal?l al-D?n R?m? Maulana 1207-1273 Mas?nav? Jal?l al-D?n R?m? Maulana 1207-1273. Sufi poetry, Persian History and criticism. Sufism History. Mevleviyeh. Sufi poetry, Persian. Sufism. 1 Kg. …