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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').
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]
The Man who asked Moses to teach him the language of Beasts and Birds; The Woman whose twenty children all died in infancy; Why Hamza in his old age refused to protect himself with a coat of mail; The advantages of Deliberation; The death of Bilál; The World and the Body; Statute and Analogy; The reverence due to the Shaykhs from their disciples
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.
Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, [12] Arabic [13] and Greek [14] [15] [16] in his verse. His Masnavi ( Mathnawi ), composed in Konya , is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language.
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 ...
In the Realm of Gold: A Collection of 365 Poems and Passages from English Literature (Selection,Translation and Commentaries). 2007. Sokhan Publishers. In the Realm of Rumi: A Collection of 365 Poems and Discourses from Rumi (Introduction and Commentaries). 2009. Sokhan Publishers. The Other Wise Man (Translation from Henry van Dyke). 2007.
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.