{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-spiritual-instruction-austin-omalley-9781474475112","title":"The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid Al-Din \u0026#703;attar and Persian Sufi Didacticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving beyond a recapitulation of religious content, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Spiritual Instruction\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the performative function of didactic poetry for mystical audiences, focusing in particular on the verse of Farid al-Din ʿAttar, a central figure of the tradition best known for long narrative poems imbued with edifying sufi themes. Through a series of sensitive and creative readings, O'Malley shows how ʿAttar uses frame-tales, metapoetic commentary and allegories to think through his relationship with his readers, imagine and guide their reactions to his work and perform his instructive authority. By teasing out this implicit, recipient-centred poetics, O'Malley recovers sufi didacticism's participatory, interactive character and shows how the act of reading was invested with ritual significance as a spiritual exercise aimed at the purification of the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin O'Malley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474475116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474475112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Austin O'Malley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44130105884927,"sku":"9781474475112","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_158d997d-f497-4ab1-8e45-2d01420f449a.jpg?v=1687467592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poetics-of-spiritual-instruction-austin-omalley-9781474475112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}