Feeling Like Lovers

" Feeling like Lovers opens up a new dimension in the study of Persian mystical poetry, through its highly original analysis of affect and rhetoric."--Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Matthew Thomas Miller's Feeling Like Lovers is heady, joyous, playful, and rich. Making a powerful argument for moving on from metaphysics in studies of Sufism, it insists on taking feeling seriously--while still weaving in attention to the affective power of words and ideas. This book is a banquet of medieval poetry, history, philosophy, and literary theory."--Donovan Schaefer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania