Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tourage, Mahdi
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Iran studies ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Bawdy tales of the Mathnawī in the context of Persian mystical poetry
  • The nexus between esotericism and eroticism
  • Phallocentric esotericism in the tale of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress's donkey
  • The phallus and the subject
  • The hermeneutics of eroticism
  • Visions of esoteric secrets in two miniature paintings of the Mathnawī's Bawdy tales.