Rumi: Poems

Jalalu'l-Din Rumi

Rumi: Poems
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
15 September 2006
Pages
256
ISBN
9780307263520

Rumi: Poems

Jalalu'l-Din Rumi

The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences.

Trained in Sufism - a mystic tradition within Islam - Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms.

This volume draws on a wide variety of translations - from the early twentieth century to the present - of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.

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