This longing
| Title | This longing
Poetry, teaching stories, and selected letters |
|---|---|
| Author | Jelaluddin Rumi; transl. versions by Coleman Barks and John Moyne |
| Publication | Threshold |
| Size | xvii, 107p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 0939660296 |
| Topics |
Persian poetry--Translated into English Persian poetry--Classical Persian poetry Sufism--Early works to 1800 |
| Notes | Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the True Human Beings- a brilliant intelligence, an estate, a careful worker in the world, a teacher, a magnificent poet, and a constant Friend of the soul's evolving. The poetry here is from the Mathmawi, Rumi's six-volume masterwork, which occupied the last twelve years of his life. The seventeen presented in English for the first time. [goodreads] This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme--over fifty-one thousand verses--inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style. [LibraryThing] |
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