An Exploration into the Concept of the Perfect Man from Rumi’s Perspective

According to a reporter from the Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) in Karaj, the book “Analytical Encyclopedia of the Perfect Man in Rumi’s Masnavi” has been compiled and written by Kazem Mohammadi in 764 pages.

This book, an analytical encyclopedia and Masnavi research, has been published by “Najm-e Kobra Publications” in octavo format.

Kazem Mohammadi writes in the introduction of this book: “Although the discussion of the Perfect Man is very extensive, and from the third century until today, many works, knowingly or unknowingly, through research or imitation, have been put into writing, it is not an issue that can be concluded. In this writing, I intend to review this subject at a non-technical and non-theoretical level from Rumi’s perspective. Rumi, unlike Ibn Arabi and the commentators of his views and works, and unlike Hakim Tirmidhi, has a different approach.”

He speaks of distinguished individuals, although he generally considers their special status, he does not place them in a halo of distant and abstract concepts. He views the Perfect Man as being of the type of prophets and saints, and he considers a prophet with two characteristics: specific and general. The specific aspect is spiritual and incomprehensible, while the general aspect is that they lived with and among people.