Persian Sufi Poetry
J.T.P. Bruijn
148 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0700703128
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Language: English
Publish: April 18, 1997
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 poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.