Download or read book Rūmī and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism written by Mahdi Tourage and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on relevant postmodern theories, and exploring the link between the dynamics of eroticism and esotericism, this book establishes the esoteric significance of the bawdy tales in Rūmī’s (d. 1273) Mathnawī, a masterpiece of medieval Perso-Islamic mystical literature.