Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems by J.T.P. Bruijn, Ian Richard Netton

Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems

J.T.P. Bruijn, Ian Richard Netton

142 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic po...

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