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Paperback The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ʿattar and Persian Sufi Didacticism Book
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ISBN: 1474475124

ISBN13: 9781474475129

The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ʿattar and Persian Sufi Didacticism

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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...

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