1. The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil -- 2. "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry -- 3. "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression -- 4. In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual -- 5. "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression -- 6. "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die -- Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions
1. The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil -- 2. "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry -- 3. "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression -- 4. In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual -- 5. "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression -- 6. "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die -- Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions
