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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73) was a 13th-century Persian
poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from
Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a
selection of his many poems with a variety of themes, including
love, marriage, life and death, passion and mysticism, as well as
his religious collection, Rubaiyat, and his long poem, Masnavi, one
of the most influential works of Sufism, an Islamic form of
mysticism. Rumi's reach transcends national borders and ethnic
divisions: his poetry has influenced not only Persian literature,
but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai,
Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.
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Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on
spirituality from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been
carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated
edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi
Rumi-commonly referred to simply as Rumi-has enchanted and
enthralled readers from every faith and background with his
universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he
seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein
perfectly express the spiritual quest and desire for a deeper
understanding of not only ourselves, but also of our collective
oneness as humankind. You Are you are a sudden resurrection an
endless bliss you set a fire in the meadow of our dreams laughing
today you are happy crashing the prisons blessing the poor With
intricately designed and richly colored covers that mirror the
beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series presents
themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic Jalaluddin
Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for
self-reflection.
Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems
about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been
carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated
edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi
Rumi-commonly referred to simply as Rumi-has enchanted and
enthralled readers from every faith and background with his
universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he
seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein
perfectly express and are centered on the theme of love, along with
the quest, desire, and deeper meanings of love for not only
ourselves, but also of our fellow humankind. The Sweetheart the
sweetheart who is blocking my sleep demands tears on my knees
throwing me silently into the waves changing the water to liquid
sweet With intricately designed and richly colored covers that
mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series
presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic
Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for
self-reflection.
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This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular
culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan-Korea
relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial
period to the contemporary, the book's chapters analyse the often
contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either
promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and
reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link
several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including
conflicts over historical memories and cultural production,
grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of
digital technology in Japan and South Korea. Taking recent
discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers
further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment
media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments
and perceptions of the "popular" are formed. It will be useful to
students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as
film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely.
This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular
culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan-Korea
relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial
period to the contemporary, the book's chapters analyse the often
contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either
promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and
reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link
several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including
conflicts over historical memories and cultural production,
grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of
digital technology in Japan and South Korea. Taking recent
discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers
further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment
media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments
and perceptions of the "popular" are formed. It will be useful to
students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as
film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely.
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Rumi: Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman
Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been
translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer
Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The
thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism, a
mystic tradition within Islam. He founded the Mevlevi Order, often
known as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of
their spiritual devotion. His poetry combines the sacred and the
sensual, expressing both rapturous divine love, and aching human
love for his companion and teacher, Shams of Tabriz. It has long
been popular in the West, never more so than in the last
twenty-five years, when a new wave of free translations introduced
him to an ever-widening audience. However, some of these recent
translations have been more in the nature of interpretations by
writers who are not Persian speakers. Cultural and Islamic
references central to an understanding of Rumi's poetry have been
toned down or omitted. And so vast was Rumi's output that earlier
scholarly translators were obliged to be selective, leaving a rich
vein of verse still unmined. From this Gooch and Mortaz have made a
selection of ghazals (short lyric poems) and rubaiyat (quatrains),
aiming in their own translations to achieve fidelity to the
originals while preserving all Rumi's lyric exuberance. This book
makes a perfect companion to the first Everyman volume of Rumi,
which presents the very best of the twentieth-century translations.
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of
internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging
perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into
and out of Japan.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key
factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies
in its engagement with globalization. Essays from a team of leading
international scholars illustrate this crucial interaction between
the flows of Japanese popular culture and the constant development
of globalization. Drawing on rich empirical content, this book
looks at Japanese popular culture as it traverses international
borders flowing out through such forms as manga consumption in New
Zealand and flowing in through such forms as foreigners writing
about Japan in Japanese and how American influences affected the
formation of Japan's gay identity.
Presenting current, confronting and sometimes controversial
insights into the many forms of Japanese popular culture emerging
within this global context, Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan will make essential reading for those working in Japanese
studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of
internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging
perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into
and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book
argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese
popular culture lies in its engagement with globalization. Essays
from a team of leading international scholars illustrate this
crucial interaction between the flows of Japanese popular culture
and the constant development of globalization. Drawing on rich
empirical content, this book looks at Japanese popular culture as
it traverses international borders flowing out through such forms
as manga consumption in New Zealand and flowing in through such
forms as foreigners writing about Japan in Japanese and how
American influences affected the formation of Japan's gay identity.
Presenting current, confronting and sometimes controversial
insights into the many forms of Japanese popular culture emerging
within this global context, Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan will make essential reading for those working in Japanese
studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Japanese popular culture has developed in many unexpected and
fascinating ways. From contemporary pop culture's beginnings in the
shadow of the Second World War and the earlier China campaign,
Japan's sense of identity has been contested, challenged,
reconsidered, restructured, and revived through multiple popular
media. Pop culture, though, has always occupied a singular place in
Japan's expression of selfhood and otherness, providing vicarious
experiences of life within Japan. Today, Japanese popular culture's
global influence is felt most keenly in movie culture, animation,
television, the Internet, social media, music, fashion, and comics
(manga), to name but a few fields and technologies. Indeed, visual
culture, specifically television and movies, with a strong emphasis
on animation (anime) and manga, led the first wave of Japanese
pop-culture exports in the second half of the twentieth century.
Since then, academic interest in these exports, both at home in
Japan, and overseas, has developed rapidly. The second wave of
Japanese popular culture followed the digitization of much of the
global media: rapid communications, global connectedness, and the
development of new media have provided platforms on which Japanese
pop culture has been presented and critiqued, engaged, and
transformed. More complex, more hybrid, and more sophisticated, the
relationships between Japan and the rest of the world are often
given voice through new readings and interpretations of the
interconnected popular cultural world. The assembled articles in
Volume I of this new Routledge collection of major works provide a
comprehensive overview of the postwar history of Japanese popular
culture. Topics include the emergence of popular culture as an
academic field in Japan; the genesis of manga and anime; analyses
of various cultural artefacts and phenomena, such as censorship and
popular culture during the postwar occupation; the 1970s origin of
kawaii culture; and street fashion in the 1980s. Volumes II and
III, meanwhile, focus on the twenty-first century. Over the last
decade especially, the transnational presence of Japanese popular
culture has accelerated, and with it scholarship on Japanese
popular culture has grown in depth and diversity. The themes
explored in these volumes include the role of digital technology in
popular culture; esoteric cultural artefacts and activities, such
as loli fashion, maid cafes, otaku culture, and traditional music
reinvented as pop, as well as more conventionally popular products
such as anime, TV drama, and shojo manga. Collectively, the volume
demonstrates the complex and heterogeneous nature of the Japanese
pop-culture landscape in the twenty-first century. The final volume
in the collection addresses broader issues associated with Japanese
popular culture and globalization. As Japan sought to boost its
international 'soft power' via a 'Cool Japan' strategy, the academy
began to pay serious attention to the political-economic
implications of Japan's pop-culture exports. The soft-power
rhetoric has become a significant marker of popular culture in Asia
in particular, and Japan's influence regionally has been explored
from a number of angles. Along with seminal pieces from Nye, Huat,
and Iwabuchi, authors in the first section of Volume IV examine the
rise of Japan's pop-culture industry, and investigate the
socio-economic and political-economic implications of topics such
as 'the Japan Brand', 'Cool Japan', and 'Cute Japan'. In the second
section, case studies of soft power are brought to the fore, and
analyses of the implications for people and culture are developed.
Collectively, the materials gathered in this volume demonstrate the
highly mobile and complex nature of the globalization of Japanese
popular culture.
A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
'Joking is teaching, so take care to listen - Don't look at just
the joke's form of expression. To jesters every serious thing's
hilarious, While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious' Rumi is
the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the
Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting
of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of
divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known
today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Four
interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in
understanding of God's meaning. It has a special focus on the
mystical knowledge of the spiritual guide, elaborated through
stories such as Solomon's freeiration to the Queen of Sheba, and
animal fables. This is the first ever verse translation of Book
Four of the Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's
most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming
couplets.
Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on
friendship from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been
carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated
edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi
Rumi-commonly referred to simply as Rumi-has enchanted and
enthralled readers from every faith and background with his
universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he
seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses perfectly
express the universal importance of friendship in its many forms. A
perfect gift to celebrate a special friendship, allow Rumi to
exquisitely express the deeper meanings of being, and having, a
friend in your life. With intricately designed and richly colored
covers that mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless
Rumi series presents themed collections of poems from the great
Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished
tools for self-reflection. Find Yourself a Friend find yourself a
friend who is willing to tolerated you with patience put to the
test the essence of the best incense by putting it in fire drink a
cup of poison if handed to you by a friend when filled with love
and grace step into the fire like the chosen prophet the secret
love will change hot flames to a garden covered with blossoms roses
and hyacinths and willow spinning and throwing you a true friend
can hold you like God and his universe
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