Sufi love poetry is in vogue, but few grasp its radical meaning
The Sufi path to love in the poetry of Rumi and ‘Iraqi styles the body as a bridge to the divine in deeply erotic ways
by Matthew Thomas Miller
Matthew Thomas Miller is assistant professor of Persian literature and digital humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities; and an affiliate of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. He is working on the book Sensing God: Embodied Poetics and Somatic Epistemology in Medieval Persian Sufi Literature.
Written by Matthew Thomas Miller