CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I QORʾAN Translations and Commentaries
6. 1 Developments in Early Persian Exegesis 9
7. 2 Transforming Tafsir into Literature: Maybodi’s Twelfthcentury Commentary on the Qorʾan, the Kashf Al-Asrâr 49
8. Part II Major Prose Genres
9. 3 Sufi Manuals/Questions and Answers 87
10. 4 Sufi Hagiographies in Persian 115
11. 5 Malfuzât and Other Compilations of Sufi Oral Teachings 146
12. Part III Key Authors
13. 6 Ruzbehân Baqli’s Prose Works 167
14. 7 Sharīʿa/Revealed Religion According to ʿAzīz-i Nasafī 197
15. Part IV Sufi Poets/Poet Sufis
16. 8 The Cruelty of the Way and the Afflictions of Dīn: A Study of ʿAttar’s The Speech of the Birds’ Climactic Moment 215
17. 9 The Ocean of the Persians: Fakhr al-Din ʿErâqi, Poet and Mystic 243
18. 10 Rumi: The Poetic Art of Speaking with the Divine 287
19. INDEX 313