By Mostafa Vaziri
ISBN-10: 1137530804
ISBN-13: 9781137530806
ISBN-10: 1349571695
ISBN-13: 9781349571697
This e-book bargains a paradigm shift and clean interpretation of Rumi's message. After being disentangled from the anachronistic reference to the Mevlevi order of Islamic Sufism, Rumi is as a substitute put on this planet of philosophy.
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To separate him from Sufism completely also seems difficult, especially when he frequently refers to the Sufis in his own poetry. But this does not necessarily mean that he maintained his previous Islamic jurist and scholastic Sufi views after he met the eccentric Shams. Rumi repeatedly admits that he was a pious theologian-ascetic, but something happened to his piety and common sense (mard-e moja ˉhid budam, ‘a ˉqil o za ˉhid budam) so that that man “flew away like a bird” (D: 2244). Indeed, Rumi refers to Sufis in his poetry in a positive way—as he does other groups, including Christians, Zoroastrians, Muslims, Jews, and even pagans—as part of his universalist philosophy.
In attempting to create a new narrative about Rumi, we need a clearer view of many metaphors but especially the metaphor of Love and Rumi’s application of it. The notion of Love itself in Rumi’s poetry has been subject to many interpretations, and likely misinterpretations, since the word has many shades of meaning and can be interpreted in various ways. The most popular misreading of the term Love is vagueness of “divine love,” which many authors and speakers on the subject of Rumi expound upon.
Ca. 932). The philosopher Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes (d. 1198), despite his interest in researching religious subjects, became quite famous for his work on logic and interpretation of Aristotelian thought in Europe and the Islamic world. He also harshly criticized the dogmatic work and criticism of al-Ghazzaˉlıˉ (d. 1111) for trying to derail the logic of Aristotle as well as Avicenna’s interpretation of Aristotle. Ibn Rushd’s work became popular among the The Need for a New Narrative of Rumi 15 proponents of early “secular thought” in Europe, but his works were viewed with suspicion and not widely circulated in the Islamic world.
Rumi and Shams’ Silent Rebellion: Parallels with Vedanta, Buddhism, and Shaivism by Mostafa Vaziri
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