Book Summary
Jalal al-Din Rumi, who wrote and preached in Persia during the thirteenth century, was inspired by a wandering mystic, or dervish, named Shams al-Din. Rumi's vast body of poetry includes a lengthy poem of religious mysticism, the Mathnavi, and more than three thousand lyrics and odes, many of which came to him while he was in a state of trance. A.J. Arberry, who selected four hundred of the lyrics for translation and annotated them, calls Rumi 'one of the world's greatest poets. In profundity of thought, inventiveness of image, and triumphant mastery of language he stands out as the supreme genius of Islamic mysticism.' Rumi's vast body of poetry includes a lengthy epic of religious mysticism, the "Hathnavi," and more than three thousand lyrics and odes, many of which came to him while he was in a state of trance. A. J. Arberry, who selected four hundred of the lyrics for translation and annotated them, calls Rumi "one of the world's greatest poets. In profundity of thought, inventiveness of image, and triumphant mastery of language, he stands out as the supreme genius of Islamic mysticism." A. J. Arberry (1905-73) was professor of Arabic at Cambridge University.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Mystical Poems Of Rumi 2: Second Selection, Poems 201-400 |
| Author | Jalalu'l-din Rumi, Ehsan Yarshater, Jalal |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press (Nov 1991) |
| ISBN | 9780226731520 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 638 |
