Mystical poems of Rūmī 2 : second selection, poems 201-400 / translated from the Persian by A.J. Arberry ; edited by Ehsan Yarshater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

Contributor:

Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969

Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. Selections. English

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273--Translations into English.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.

Sufi poetry, Persian--Translations into English.

Sufi poetry, Persian.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

University of Chicago Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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.'

Notes:

Originally published: Mystical poems of Rūmī. New York : Bibliotheca Persica, 1979, in series: Persian heritage series ; no. 23.

Includes bibliographical references (page 178).

ISBN:

0226731529

9780226731520

OCLC:

23693422

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