Rumi: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

Rumi, Jalal Al-Din

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307263525 ISBN 13: 9780307263520

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Jalal al-Din, known as Rumi (i.e., from Rum) or Mawlana (Master), was born in 1207 at Balkh in northern Afganistan. He worked as a preacher, succeeding his father, and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. He died in 1273 and his burial place in Konya remains a shrine to this day.

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0307263525
• ISBN 13: 9780307263520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Washington Peter