The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction : : Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism / / Austin O'Malley.
Examines ʿAttar's didactic sufi poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, recipient-centred perspectiveProvides an accessible introduction to the didactic mode in Persian literature Uncovers a poetics of didacticism that was never systemtised in the rhetorical or philosophical traditionTr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Style
- Introduction: A Guide for Everyone
- 1 Situating Wisdom
- 2 ʿAttar and Persian Literary Sufism
- 3 Talk Therapy: Poetry as Spiritual Medicine
- 4 The Hoopoe on the Pulpit
- 5 Making Texts Speak
- 6 Allegory and Ascent
- 7 Anecdotal Disruptions
- Conclusion: Towards a Didactic Performativity
- Bibliography
- Index