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Leonard Lewisohn (1953 – 6 August 2018 [1]) was an American author, translator and lecturer in the area of Islamic studies and a specialist in Persian language and Sufi literature. He was the editor of Mawlana Rumi Review , a publication of the Rumi Institute and Archetype, Cambridge, published once a year. [ 2 ]
William Clark Chittick (born June 29, 1943) is an American philosopher, writer, translator, and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology.
[1] The Ottoman Turkish alphabet is a form of the Perso-Arabic script that, despite not being able to differentiate O and U, was otherwise generally better suited to writing Turkic words rather than Perso-Arabic words. Turkic words had all of their vowels written in and had systematic spelling rules and seldom needed to be memorized. [2]
al-Rumi (Arabic: الرومي, also transcribed as ar-Rumi), or its Persian variant of simply Rumi, is a nisba denoting a person from or related to the historical region(s) specified by the name Rûm. It may refer to: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic commonly referred to by the moniker Rumi
The first ever verse translation of the unabridged text of Book Two, with an introduction and explanatory notes. The Rubai'yat of Jalal Al-Din Rumi: Select Translations Into English Verse, Translated by A. J. Arberry, (Emery Walker, London, 1949) Mystical Poems of Rumi, translated by A. J. Arberry (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Al-Adli al-Rumi (Arabic: العدلي الرومي), was an Arab player and theoretician of Shatranj, an ancient form of chess from Persia. Originally from Anatolia , [ 1 ] he authored one of the first treatises on Shatranj in 842, called Kitab ash-shatranj [ 2 ] ('Book of Chess').
A more recent translation into English, with commentary for each of the discourses, by Doug Marman (with the assistance of Jamileh Marefat, a direct descendant of Rumi) was published in 2010 under the title It Is What It Is, The Personal Discourses of Rumi (Spiritual Dialogues Project, Ridgefield, Washington), ISBN 978-0-9793260-5-9. Another ...
Ṣuhayb ibn Sinān al-Rumi, (English: Suhayb the Roman; Arabic: صُهَيْب ٱبْنِ سِنَان ٱلرُّومِيّ, Ṣuheyb er-Rûmî, born c. 592) also spelled Sohaib, was an Arab former slave in the Byzantine Empire who went on to become an early companion of Muhammad and member of the early Muslim community.