Ǧalāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Selections from His Writings

Rumi, Poet and Mystic (1207-1273)

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Discourses of Rūmī

Mesnewi, persisch mit türkischem Commentare von Ismaïl el-Ankirewi el-Mewlewi

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Maṯnawī-i maʿnawī

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Jalalu'l-Din Rumi

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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. A.J. Arberry, who selected four hundred of the lyrics for translation, 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." "An excellent introduction to Rumi, the greatest mystical poet of Islam. . . . Rumi's scope, like that of all great poets, is universal—reaching from sensuous luxuriance to the driest irony."—Sherman Goldman, East-West Journal

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