Reading Mystical Lyric

Fatemeh Keshavarz
University of South Carolina Press
 9781570035845
1-57003-584-9

The majority of scholarship on Rumi's work focuses not on his poetry but on his contributions as a mystic. Through close readings of the Divan, a collection of more than 35,000 lyric verses, this text explores Rumi's popular and critical literary success.