The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition
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Translator
Coleman Barks
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About The Book
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever.
The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.
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About the author
Rumi: Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (604–672 AH / 1207–1273 CE), known across the Persian world as Mawlana ("our master"), was a poet, Hanafi jurist, and Sufi master whose verse remains among the most beloved in any language. He was born in the region of Balkh in greater Khurasan, then a center of Islamic learning, and as a boy traveled west with his family, the scholar Baha al-Din Walad among them, as the Mongol armies advanced. After years of movement they settled in Konya, in Seljuk Anatolia (the land the Arabs called Rum, hence "Rumi"), where he became a respected teacher of law and theology. His life changed in 1244 with the arrival of the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz. Their intense companionship, and the grief of Shams's later disappearance, awakened in Rumi a torrent of poetry. From this came the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi, his collection of lyric odes, and above all the Masnavi (Mathnawi-yi Maʿnawi), a six-book spiritual epic of some 25,000 couplets weaving Qurʾan, hadith, parable, and teaching into a single tapestry, long honored as "the Qurʾan in the Persian tongue." Rumi died in Konya in 1273. From his circle arose the Mevlevi (Mawlawiyya) order, the "whirling dervishes," whose turning dance embodies his vision of love as the path to the Divine. His influence on Islamic spirituality and on world literature endures to this day.
About the translator
Coleman Barks: Coleman Barks is an American poet and translator whose renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi have brought Rumi's work to a vast English-speaking audience. His translation The Essential Rumi, first published in 1995 and expanded in subsequent editions, became one of the best-selling poetry books in the United States. Barks worked from scholarly literal translations by John Moyne and others, crafting English verse that emphasized the devotional and mystical dimensions of Rumi's poetry. His work is credited with significantly popularizing Sufi poetry in the West.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780062509598
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Rumi
Pages
416
Translator
Coleman Barks
Year Published
2004
Size
W-5.2 in | H-7.9 in | D-1.1 in
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