Fundamentals of Rumi's thought : a Mevlevi Sufi perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Jersey :
Light,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- The political and philosophical situation of the Anatolian Seljuk empire during Rumi's life
- Intellectual environment of the Anatolian Seljuks during Rumi's time
- Pre-thirteenth century conceptual differences within Muslim communities
- The origination of Sufism before Rumi
- Rumi's life
- Titles
- Ancestry
- Parents
- Rumi's marriage
- Family and children
- Dwelling in Konya
- Rumi's works
- Commentaries on the Mesnevi
- Turkish translations of the Mesnevi
- The death of Rumi's father
- Rumi's spiritual guide after his father's death
- Rumi's meeting with Shams
- Rumi after the disappearance of Shams
- Shaykh Salah al-Din of Konya, the zarqubi or goldsmith
- Husam al-Din Chelebi
- Rumi's migration to the world of eternity
- Rumi's personality and views
- A peculiarity about Rumi's life
- Rumi's inner and outer characteristics
- Asceticism and ecstasy
- Tawhid (unity of God) and ittihad (union with God)
- "There is nothing on earth or in the heavens that does not praise God."
- Love
- Belief and disbelief
- Salvation
- Reason
- Beauty
- Women
- Poetry
- Music and whirling ceremonies
- Sorrow
- Free will
- Reincarnation
- Rumi's influence
- Rumi's influence on Turkish poets
- Rumi's influence on Muslim philosophers
- A comparison between Rumi and Plato
- Rumi's influence in the West
- Rumi's Sufi order and his approach to orders
- The Mevlevi order
- Rumi and the Islamic law
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Author's biography
- Index.