Translating Rumi into the West

Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe - and the phenomenon of 'Rumimania' - to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian and Islamic worlds.

Autorentext

Amir Sedaghat holds a PhD in translation studies and transcultural communication from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. He teaches translation at the University of Toronto, Canada. Specialising in semiotics, he focuses his research on intercultural and interreligious relations between the West and the Islamic World.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. First Order Linguistic Difficulties 2. Translation or the Retrieval of the Discoursive Form 3. Recreating the Poetics of Rumi 4. Translating Rumi's Rhetoric 5. Hermeneutics of Translating Rumi 6. On the Politics of Reception 7. Translation as an Ethical Locus Conclusion