Mawlana Rumi Review, Volume 6: Book 6 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901383512 ISBN 13: 9781901383515

Publisher: Archetype, 2016

Synopsis

The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islam's greatest Sufi poet and author of some 60,000 verses composed in the widest variety of metrical patterns ever used by any Persian poet. Mawlana ('Our master') Jalal al-Din Rumi (d.1273) has also been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades. A publication of the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus and the Rumi Studies Group at the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, produced and distributed by Archetype in the UK, the Review publishes articles, reports and book reviews in English and French.

Contributors to volume 6 include include Roderick Grierson, Kudsi Erguner, Shems Friedlander, Oliver Hoare, Talāt Sait Halman, Slobodan Ilic, Eliza Tasbihi, Muhammad Isa Waley, Alan Williams and Giovanni De Zorzi with book reviews by Robert Darr, Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, and Abdallah Schleifer and translations by Franklin Lewis, Leonard Lewisohn and W. S. Merwin.

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Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islam's greatest Sufi poet and author of some 60,000 verses composed in the widest variety of metrical patterns ever used by any Persian poet. Jalal al-Din Rumi (d.1273) has also been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades. A publication of the Rumi Studies Group, University of Exeter and the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus and Archetype Books, Cambridge UK , produced and distributed in the UK, the Review publishes articles, reports and book reviews in English on Rumi's art of story-telling, poetic imagery, theology, spiritual psychology, ecumenism, erotic spirituality, pedagogy, hermeneutics, ethics, epistemology, prophetology, metaphysics and cosmology, as well as on the heritage of Rumi's thought in modern and medieval literary history and interpretation and commentary on his works such as the Mathnawi and Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz.

About the Author:

Robert Abdul Hayy Darr (b. 1951 in California) has, for nearly forty years, been a student of Islamic culture. He has studied Persian and Afghan literature and history, Afghan and north Indian music, and classical Afghan miniature painting. His translation of Mahmud Shabistari's masterpiece, Gulshan-i raz, published by Archetype in 2007 as Garden of Mystery, has been acclaimed as a new classic.

Leonard Lewisohn is Lecturer in Persian and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published numerous works on Persian Sufi poetry as well as translations including 'The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door; Thirty Poems of Hafiz', translated with Robert Bly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Archetype
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1901383512
• ISBN 13: 9781901383515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225
• Editor: Lewisohn Leonard, Grierson Roderick, Salazar Yasin, Chittick William, Ernst Carl, Netton Ian Richard, Williams Alan