Love: The Joy That Wounds: :The Love Poems of RUMI - Softcover

Rumi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285643320 ISBN 13: 9780285643321

Publisher: Souvenir Press, 2016

Synopsis

The love poems by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Jelaluddin Rumi, founder of the Whirling Dervishes of Sufism, are both mystical and a mystery. Are they addressed to his mentor, the wandering Shams of Tabriz (who converted him to a life of joy when he was thirty-eight), or to God, or to a lover?
Reflecting the complexities and paradoxes of love and devotion - separation, cruelty, and break-up - they are poems of great power and emotional intensity, of exuberant passion and overflowing imagination.
Though seemingly addressed to a lover, in their imagery they encompass the universe and are metaphors of love in its physical form, reinforced by amazing rhythms, which echo the dance of the whirling dervishes.
Lassa?d Metoui, the renowned Arabic calligrapher, has beautifully captured the atmosphere and movement of the poems in this collection.

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About the Author

Rumi, the great poet of Sufism, is the world's bestselling poet. Born in Persia in 1211 he composed thousands of poems that have continued to be chanted on pilgrimages and during religious ceremonies since. Celebrated as a mystic he founded the order of Whirling Dervishes of Sufism, which spread throughout the Islamic world after his death.

Edition details

• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0285643320
• ISBN 13: 9780285643321
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Metoui Lassaad
• Number of pages: 96