The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction
Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 21 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474475112
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages291 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black and white illustrations, 3 black and white tables 439
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Short description:
Examines ʿAttar's didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective
MoreLong description:
Much Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving beyond a recapitulation of religious content, The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction investigates the performative function of didactic poetry for mystical audiences, focusing in particular on the verse of Farid al-Din ʿAttar, a central figure of the tradition best known for long narrative poems imbued with edifying sufi themes. Through a series of sensitive and creative readings, O’Malley shows how ʿAttar uses frame-tales, metapoetic commentary and allegories to think through his relationship with his readers, imagine and guide their reactions to his work and perform his instructive authority. By teasing out this implicit, recipient-centred poetics, O’Malley recovers sufi didacticism’s participatory, interactive character and shows how the act of reading was invested with ritual significance as a spiritual exercise aimed at the purification of the soul.
MoreTable of 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 Speak6 Allegory and Ascent 7 Anecdotal Disruptions Conclusion: Towards a Didactic Performativity Bibliography Index
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