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

by Austin O'Malley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474475116
• ISBN13: 9781474475112
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"