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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.
A calendar page for November 1, 1895 (October 20 OS) in cosmopolitan Thessaloniki. The first 3 lines in Ottoman Turkish Arabic script give the date in the Rumi, 20 Teşrin-i Evvel 1311, and Islamic, 14 Jumādā al-Ūlā 1313, calendars; the Julian and Gregorian (in French) dates appear below. Enver Pasha's hurûf-ı munfasıla of 1917
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.
It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. [ 6 ] Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [ 7 ]
Rumi, who previously had no background in poetics, [14] quickly became attached to Shams, who acted as a spiritual teacher to Rumi and introduced him to music, sung poetry, and dance through Sufi samas. [15] Shams abruptly left Konya in 1246 C.E, [16] returned a year later, [17] then vanished again in 1248 C.E, [18] possibly having been ...
A page of Fihi Ma Fihi from MuntaXab-i Fihi Ma Fihi. The Fihi Ma Fihi or Fīhi Mā Fīhi (Persian: فیه ما فیه), lit. ' 'It Is What It Is" or "In It What Is in It' ') is a Persian prose work of 13th century Sufi mystic and Iranian poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. [1]
The English interpretations of Rumi's poetry by Coleman Barks have sold more than half a million copies worldwide, [98] and Rumi is one of the most widely read poets in the United States. [99] There is a famous landmark in Northern India , known as Rumi Gate , situated in Lucknow (the capital of Uttar Pradesh ) named for Rumi.
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.