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1 online resource (xxvii, 355 pages) |
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ʻAṭṭār, Sufism and Ismailism / Hermann Landolt -- Of scent and sweetness / Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei -- Narratology and realities in the work of ʻAṭṭār / Muhammad Este'Lami -- Sufi saints and sainthood in ʻAṭṭār's Tadhkirat al-awliyā' / Shahram Pazouki -- Words and deeds / Paul Losensky -- Blessed perplexity / Lucian Stone -- Flight of the birds / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- Illustrating ʻAṭṭār / Michael Barry -- Representations of ʻAṭṭār in the West and in the East / Christopher Shackle -- Some remarks on forms and functions of repetitive structures in the epic poetry of ʻAṭṭār / Johann Christoph Bürgel -- Didactic style and self-criticism in ʻAṭṭār / Muhammad Isa Waley -- "Without us, from us we're safe" / Leili Anvar-Chenderoff -- Sufi symbolism in the Persian hermeneutic tradition / Leonard Lewisohn -- Mystical quest and oneness in the Mukhtār-nāma attributred to Farīd al Din ʻAṭṭār / Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek -- On losing one's head / Carl W. Ernst |
| Summary |
"Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece "Mantiq al-tayr", or "The Conference of Birds", his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by their provocative and radical theology of love, many lines of 'Attar's epics and lyrics are cited independently of their poems as maxims in their own right. These pithy, paradoxical statements are still known by heart and sung by minstrels throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and wherever Persian is spoken or understood, such as in the lands of the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent. Designed to take its place alongside "The Ocean of the Soul", the classic study of 'Attar by Hellmut Ritter, this volume offers the most comprehensive survey of 'Attar's literary works to date, and situates his poetry and prose within the wider context of the Persian Sufi tradition. The essays in the volume are grouped in three sections, and feature contributions by sixteen scholars from North America, Europe and Iran, which illustrate, from a variety of critical prespectives, the full range of 'Attar's monumental achievement. They show how and why 'Attar's poetical work, as well as his mystical doctrines, came to wield such tremendous and formative influence over the whole of Persian Sufism."--Bloomsbury publishing |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-348) and index |
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ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 -- Criticism and interpretation
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ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230. fast (OCoLC)fst01805671 |
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Sufism.
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Sufism.
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Islam.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Sufism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Lewisohn, Leonard
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Shackle, C
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Institute of Ismaili Studies
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| ISBN |
9781786730183 |
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1786730189 |
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9781786720184 |
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1786720183 |
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9780755609567 |
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0755609565 |
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