| Description |
xxiii, 302 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Mystical classics of the world |
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Mystical classics of the world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302). |
| 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. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Barks, Coleman.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1998
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| ISBN |
0965064871 |
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