Known for bringing the spiritual urgency and ecstasy of Rumi's verse to English with particular skill and passion, Barks offers another volume of translations, including a substantial excerpt from Rumi's long poem MASNAVI.
Deepak Chopra presents his personal selection of favorite poems by one of history's greatest poets of spirituality and romance. This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems.
In a magnificent meeting of words and visuals, of ancient tradition and modern interpretation, this beautiful book assembles in one volume the timeless work of 13th-century Sufi poet and philosopher Jelaluddin Rumi. Extraordinary, contemporary, full-color collages capture the richness of Rumi's teachings.
This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey of the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God, and the means whereby literature employs ...
A collection by a Sufi poet who is revered within the Moslem world chiefly for "Mathnawi", an epic six-book work on Sufism. These works are based on Rumi's meeting with a wandering monk and his contemplation of various tenets of Sufism.
The life of Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a brilliant scholar and popular teacher, was forever changed when he met a powerful wandering dervish and began a new plateau of spiritual enlightenment. Now, from the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by this ...
Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these parables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin Parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive or ludicrous--affords a glimpse of the ...
As Barks writes in his introduction to this collection, "Silence is a deeper way that lovers have found". Rumi's silence is that of the chef who hands you a spoon to let you taste, now that the recipe-reading is over. The silence becomes an inward communion, an experience beyond any doctrinal description. Somehow, in these poems, Rumi uses words ...
In the form of an anthology, this collection brings together translations, undertaken by a number of translators, of the poetry of the 12th century Persian mystic, Rumi
Rumi (1207-1273) was a Sufi mystic whose mastery of the poetic form known in Persia as the rubai, or quatrain, enabled him to create some of the most lyrical verses ever written. The Sufis say that meditation is a step up from prayer, and that sohbet (mystical conversation) is a step up from meditation. Each of these poems may be heard as bursts ...
In this bilingual collection of Rumi's poetry, the epic Sufi Poet's words are lined with love and spiritual tranquility, highlighted by the perfect translations, into Persian and English, of Iraj Anvar and Anne Twitty.The many translations of Rumi have been enthusiastically received by great numbers of readers in the English-speaking world. Rumi ...
Pithy quatrains, ecstatic odes, and long rambles through the Mathnawi (including animal fables, jokes, and stories of human orneriness and innocence), all saturated with Rumi's deep teachings and images of his spiritual surrender.
A rare gift for Rumi lovers, combining exquisitely rendered Persian calligraphy, groundbreaking transliteration, 'word-by-word' literal translations, and faithful poetic translations of 252 quatrains (most previously untranslated). Finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Award.
This cycle of poems by the 13th-century Sufi expresses his admiration and love for Shams of Tabriz, a travelling dervish he met who taught him new dimensions of love and religious ecstasy. Translator Barks is a renowned expert on Rumi, having translated several other books of his verse.
A translation of the "Fihi ma Fihi", a prose work by the master poet and mystic Rumi, featuring his discourses on a wide variety of topics. Themes include God's beauty and the things of the earth, the continuum between form and substance, and the centrality of love in the soul's development.
This great Sufi poet and teacher can become a companion for your own spiritual journeyThe lyric and wisdom poetry of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi has been an inspiration throughout the Middle East and Asia for over seven hundred years. Recently it has also become popular in Western countries through translations and interpretive poetic versions in ...
Rumi composed and spoke his poems through the spontaneous language of poetry that poured from his lips as he traveled the streets. This work reveals that by going deep into the interior of their hearts and souls, readers can arrive at a place in which they once again merge and connect with the divine.
Sufi master Rumi's best loved poems and stories illustrated with authentic, inspiring, Sufi and Islamic art. One of the world's best-selling poets, 13th century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now, the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories ...
This book is a collection of 128 previously untranslated rubais, or quatrains (four line poems which express one complete idea), of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1184 - 1273 A.D.) one of the greatest mystics of all time. As a respected scholar of his day Rumi's world was turned upside-down upon meeting the "Beloved" in the form of a wandering Dervish ...
These selections from Rumi's "Mathnawi", a classic of Sufi spiritual literature, express the "lion's roar" of courage, discipline, clarity and integrity. The lion represents the fierce intensity that recognizes no authority except the highest truth. At the same time, Rumi's lion is full of heart and devotion. Through these poems, the reader will ...
The great Sufi poet of ecstasy and divine love is represented here by 50 lyrics, some intimate and others instructional. The edition is illustrated with medieval miniatures and includes an introduction to Rumi's work and life.
In 365 brief selections, the wisdom of the great mystical poet Rumi (1207-1273) is presented here for daily inspiration, support and guidance. The translations are taken from the "Mathnawi".
Sufis refer to themselves as "workers" and "lovers" interchangeably, and the action that needs doing always involves a companionship with the spiritual world. In these poems from the Mathnawi, Rumi finds metaphors for that mysterious cooperation, the friendship within which one does fearless work born of love. "If Rumi is the most-read poet in ...
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