Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet
The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet
$47.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
26 June 1992
Summary
This book celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia’s great mystical poet, Rumi (1207-1273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse.
Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious teacher in Anatolia until the age of thirty-seven, when he came under the influence of a whirling dervish, Shams Tabriz, and was moved to a state of mystical ecstasy. One of the results of this ecstasy was a prodigious output of poems about the search for th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780877736110 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0877736111 |
| Author: | Annemarie Schimmel |
| Publisher: | Shambhala |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 1992 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 155mm x 225mm |
| Series: | Dragon Editions |
Critics Review
“Annemarie Schimmel has been immersed in Rumi for over forty years. Her scholarship and devotion are magnificent. She has a deep understanding of the poems, the mystical puns, the music, and the dancy inner meanings of Rumi’s work.”–Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi.
Annemarie Schimmel
Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003) was a renowned German scholar of Islam and author of eighty books, including “And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety” and “A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry”.
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