Austin O'Malley
The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ʿattar and Persian Sufi Didacticism
The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din ʿattar and Persian Sufi Didacticism
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The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction explores the didactic sufi poetry of ?Attar in a historical context, focusing on its rhetorical, recipient-centered perspective and its poetics of didacticism. It uncovers a poetics of didacticism that was never systematized in the rhetorical or philosophical tradition and investigates how didactic texts evoke oral discourse and how ?Attar's frame-tale structures mediate between textuality and orality.
Format: Hardback
Length: 291 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The study delves into the didactic sufi poetry of ?Attar in its historical context, adopting a rhetorical and recipient-centered approach. It offers an accessible introduction to the didactic mode in Persian literature, unveiling a poetics of didacticism that has remained largely unsystematized within the realms of rhetoric and philosophy. The author traces the implications of the medicinal metaphor, wherein speech is likened to medicine, and explores the relationship between literary allegory and visionary experience. Furthermore, the study investigates how didactic texts evoke oral discourse and how ?Attar's frame-tale structures mediate between textuality and orality.
Much Persian sufi literature explicitly aims to instruct and motivate its readers through spiritual reform. The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction goes beyond a mere recapitulation of religious content, delving into the performative function of didactic poetry for mystical audiences. The author focuses on the verse of Farid al-Din ?Attar, a central figure in the tradition renowned for his long narrative poems infused with edifying sufi themes. Through a series of sensitive and creative readings, O Malley demonstrates how ?Attar employs frame-tales, metapoetic commentary, and allegories to engage with his readers, envision and guide their reactions to his work, and assert his instructive authority. By unraveling this implicit, recipient-centered poetics, O Malley reclaims the participatory and interactive nature of sufi didacticism, highlighting how the act of reading was imbued with ritual significance as a spiritual exercise aimed at purifying the soul.
Weight: 586g
Dimension: 161 x 242 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474475112
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