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Illuminated frontispiece of the poetry of Rumi, c. 1461. The Sufi conception of love was introduced first by Rabia of Basra, a female mystic from the eighth century. Throughout Rumi's work the "death" and "love" appear as the dual aspects of Rumi's conception of self-knowledge. Love is understood to be "all-consuming" in the sense that it ...
The Masnavi, or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی, DMG: Mas̲navī-e maʻnavī), also written Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Rumi. It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines.
On April 9, 2013, Images and Words won Loudwire's fan-voted March Metal Madness award for best metal album of all time. [19] The song "Under a Glass Moon" was awarded the 98th best guitar solo by an About.com guitar expert. [20] In October 2011, Images and Words was ranked number 7 on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of ...
Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian [1] Shafi'ite [1] poet, [2] who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī.
After Salah ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favourite student, Hussam-e Chalabi, assumed the role of Rumi's companion. One day, the two of them were wandering through the Meram vineyards outside Konya when Hussam described to Rumi an idea he had had: "If you were to write a book like the Ilāhīnāma of Sanai or the Mantiq ut-Tayr of 'Attar ...
During Shams’ initial separation from Rumi, Rumi wrote poetic letters to Shams pleading for his return. [20] Following Shams’ second disappearance, Rumi returned to writing poetry lauding Shams and lamenting his disappearance. [4] These poems would be collected after Rumi’s death by his students as the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi. [21]
He encouraged Rumi to create his famous work Masnavi and contributed to writing and editing the book. [1] [2] Rumi repeatedly praised Husam al-Din in his poetry and letters. Husam al-Din is supposed to have been born in Konya around 1225. [1] His grandfather was a Kurdish [3] Sufi originally from Urmia and buried in Baghdad.
Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rûmî (d. 1469) was a Turkish poet and mystic of the early years of Ottoman Empire. [1] [2] His original name was Abdullah, but he was known as Ashrafoglu Rumi, Ashrafoglu meaning “son of Ashraf” and Rumi referring to being from Rūm (lands of the Romans).