| Edition |
New expanded edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm |
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Gender group gdr Men lcdgt |
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National/Regional group nat Iranians lcdgt |
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Religious group rel Sufis lcdgt |
| Note |
Originally published in 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers. |
| Contents |
The tavern: whoever brought me here will have to take me home -- Bewilderment: I have five things to say -- Emptiness and silence: the night air -- Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy -- Feeling separation: don't come near me -- Controlling the desire-body: how did you kill your rooster, Husam? -- Sohbet: meetings on the riverbank -- Being a lover: the sunrise ruby -- The pickaxe: getting to the treasure beneath the foundation -- Art as flirtation with surrender: wanting new silk harp strings -- Union: Gnats inside the wind -- The Sheikh: I have such a teacher -- Recognizing elegance: your reasonable father -- The howling necessity: cry out in your weakness -- Teaching stories: how the unseen world works -- rough metaphors: more teaching stories -- Solomon poems: The far mosque -- The three fish: gamble everything for love -- Jesus poems: the population of the world -- In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: more teaching stories -- Beginning and end: the stories that frame the Mathnawi -- Green ears everywhere: children running through -- Being woven: communal practice -- Wished-for-song: secret practices -- Majesty: this we have now -- Evolutionary intelligence: say I am you -- The turn: dance in your blood -- A new section: the pistachio passport. |
| Subject |
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 -- Translations into English.
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Sufi poetry, Persian -- Translations into English.
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POETRY -- Middle Eastern.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. (OCoLC)fst00073511
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Sufi poetry, Persian. (OCoLC)fst01137242
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Barks, Coleman, translator.
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Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969, translator.
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Moyne, John, translator.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
0062509586 |
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9780062509581 |
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9780062509598 |
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0062509594 |
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