Book Summary
Introduction to and selections from Rumi translated into English by well known scholar along with the original Persian. Poetry. Translated from the Persian. SELECTED POEMS FROM THE DIVAN-E SHAMS-E TABRIZI of Jalaluddin Rumi is a collection of forty-eight translations alongside the original Persian, copious notes and an introduction, all by R.A. Nicholson. Nicholson, a life-long student and devotee of Rumi, presents with this collection his selected favorites from Rumi's love poems. "The complete DIVAN-E SHAMS consists of about 3,200 ghazals (odes or sonnets) and ghasidehs (elegies); and about 2,000 ruba'is (quatrains) and tarjibands (Persian ballads)." - IBEX Publishers
Book Details
Book Name | Selected Poems From The Divan-E Shams-E Tabriz: With The Original Persian On The Facing Page |
Author | Jalalu'l-din Rumi, Ibex Publishers, Reynold A. Nicholson |
Publisher | Ibex Publishers (Jan 2006) |
ISBN | 9780936347615 |
Pages | 367 |
Language | English |
Price | 994 |