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A much-cited poem therein is "The Guest House" found in, for example, Mark Williams and Danny Penman (2011), Mindfulness, pp. 165–167. The poem is also at The Guest House by Rumi. The Illuminated Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Michael Green contributor, New York: Broadway Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7679-0002-7.
Barks reading at the Festival of Silence, Esvika, Asker, Norway, June 25, 2011. Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, [ 1 ] he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.
Masnavi, a calligraphic specimen from 1490, Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey. 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 ...
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 book has 72 short discourses.
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.
t. e. Divan-i Kabir (Persian: دیوان کبیر), also known as Divan-i Shams (دیوان شمس) and Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi (دیوان شمس تبریزی), is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the Persian ...
This book is about a thirteenth century poet, Shams Tabrizi, who was the spiritual teacher to Rumi. [10] The book presents Shams's Forty Love Rules at different intervals. [12] [13] Sweet Blasphemy was structured in a way to focus on the five elements of nature: Water, Air, Earth, Fire and Void.
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (father) Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, FBA (18 August 1868 – 27 August 1945), or R. A. Nicholson, was an eminent English orientalist, scholar of both Islamic literature and Islamic mysticism, and widely regarded as one of the greatest Rumi (Mevlana or Mawlana) scholars and translators in the English language.