A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.
Introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives... Læs mere
The majority of scholarship on Rumi's work focuses not on his poetry but on his contributions as a mystic. Through close readings of the Divan, a collection of more than 35,000 lyric verses, this text explores Rumi's popular and critical literary success.