Gold
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-12732021
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Up until the age of 40, the 13th century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. At that point, however, an encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed. Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in single-minded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liberation whose poetry is meant to induce a similar revelation in his audience, bringing them to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. Rumi's poetry is a masterpiece of world literature to which readers in many languages continue to return for inspiration and succour as well as aesthetic delight. This new translation preserves the radical intelligence and the ecstatic drama of poems that are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom.
Main title:
Gold / Rumi, Haleh Liza Gafori.
Author:
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, authorGafori, Haleh Liza, translator
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2021.
Collation:
96 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Persian.
ISBN:
9781681375335 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
891.5511
Language:
EnglishPersian
BRN:
2529259
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