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Rumi's World - The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet (Paperback, Reissue)
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Rumi's World - The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet (Paperback, Reissue)
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Discovery Miles 5 720
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This book (previously published as "I Am Wind, You Are Fire ")
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 the lost Divine Beloved, whom Rumi
identified with Shams. To symbolize this search, Rumi also invented
the famous whirling dance of the Melevi dervishes, which are
performed accompanied by the chanting of Rumi's poems. Professor
Schimmel illuminates the symbolism and significance of Rumi's vast
output and offers her own translations of some of his most famous
poems.
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