{"product_id":"feeling-like-lovers-affect-in-medieval-sufism-paperback","title":"Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Thomas Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sufism, for many of its medieval followers, was the \"religion of love.\" God was the beloved and the Sufis, his lovers. To become a Sufi meant to \u003ci\u003ebecome a lover\u003c\/i\u003e. In this book, Matthew Thomas Miller pursues the radical analytical implication of this amatory metaphysics: If God and his divine secrets can only truly be known in their fullest through the experience of love, then we must analyze how it \u003ci\u003efeels\u003c\/i\u003e to be a Sufi on the Path of Love. Leveraging insights from the history of emotions and affect theory, this study examines key Sufi ritual practices and poetics to show the central role that affect plays in the process of constructing Sufi subjectivity and knowledge production. It explores the felt dimension of medieval Sufism and why feeling--especially, \u003ci\u003elike a lover--\u003c\/i\u003ewas so important for coming to truly know God and his divine secrets.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling like Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Matthew Thomas Miller's \u003ci\u003eFeeling Like Lovers \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Thomas Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland and affiliate faculty at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45539244376166,"sku":"9780520426344","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ZyWbDX04MP9780520426344.webp?v=1776862036","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/feeling-like-lovers-affect-in-medieval-sufism-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}