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Now in paperback, a new translation of the Sufi mystic's verse,
hailed as  authentic" and  exquisite." Championed by icons of
American pop culture such as Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak
Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country that he was
once proclaimed our bestselling poet. But translations that have
popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi mystic have
also strayed from its essence. In this fresh translation from the
Persian, Farrukh Dhondy seeks to recover both the lyrical beauty
and the spiritual essence of the original verse. In poems of love
and devotion, rapture and suffering, loss and yearning for oneness,
Dhondy has rediscovered the Islamic mystic of spiritual awakening
whose quest is the key to his universal appeal. Here is at once a
great poet of love, both human and divine, and the authentic voice
of a moderate Islam a voice that can resonate in today's
turbulent, fundamentalist times.
Rumi's poems bring together the divine and the human, the mystical
and the corporeal to create a vivid kaleidoscope of poetic images.
While many recent 'translations' have sought to give Rumi's poetry
a certain hippy sensibility, robbing it of its true essence,
Farrukh Dhondy attempts to bring out the beauty and sensibility of
the verses whilst imitating the metre of the original. Dhondy's
translations provide a modern idiom to the poems, carefully keeping
intact their religious context.
Farrukh Dhondy was born in Poona in 1944 and come to England to
study in 1965. Here he threw himself into political activism. He
joined the Indian Workers Association, and then the British Black
Panthers and Race Today, where he worked alongside Darcus Howe, C L
R James and leading figures of the liberation movement. In between
he was leading squatter strikes in Brixton, hanging with Pink
Floyd, and interviewing the Beatles. In the 1980s he started to
write and was also made the Commissioning editor of mulitcultural
programming and was instrumental in bringing Desmonds, and Tandoori
Nights to the screen, as well as ground breaking Bandung File
documentaries. His first novel, Bombay Duck, won the Whitbread
prize in 1980. In Fragments Towards My Ruin, Dhondy explores his
life of moments to salvage against the ruin of age. It is a
fascinating portrait of politics, culture, friendship and the
determination to break down boundaries. Packed with fascinating
stories from why Jeffrey Archer was arrested as well as portraits
of figures such as Richard Attenborough, CLR James, Arundhati Roy,
VS Naipaul, and Charles Sobhraj.
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