Rumi and Shams’ Silent Rebellion

Mostafa Vaziri is a visiting scholar in Anthropology and Oriental Studies at Princeton University.

Acknowledgments Author's Note Abbreviations of Sources 1. The Need for a New Narrative about Rumi 2. The Need for a New Interpretation of Shams and Rumi 3. Shams' Rebellious Paradigm 4. Rumi Unlearns His Pious Past 5A: Rumi's Philosophical Pyramid 5B: Rumi's Case Against Dualistic Thinking and His Wisdom About the World 6A: Rumi, Vedanta, and Buddhism 6B: Rumi, Kashmir Shaivism, and Tantra Conclusion Appendix: Certain Influences of Shaivism and Tantra on the Islamic Mystics