Mystical Poems of Rumi

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Author:

Rumi, Jalal al-Din

Translator:

Arberry, A. J.

Editor:

Yarshater, Ehsan

Foreword by:

Lewis, Franklin D.

Notes by:

Javadi, Hasan

ISBN:

978-0-226-73162-9

Publication Date:

Apr 2009

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $18.00

Book Description:

My verse resembles the bread of Egypt--night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it. Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold. Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and you see it is cold. Even if you eat it imagining it is fresh, it is necessary to conjure up many images. What you drink is really your own imagination; it...
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Book Details

Pages:	440
Detailed Subjects:	Poetry / Asian / General Religion / Islam / Sufi
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.46 x 8.424 x 0.936 Inches
Book Weight:	1.186 Pounds

Author Biography

Rumi, Jalal al-Din (Author)

Ehsan Ollah Yarshater was born in Hamadan, Iran on April 3, 1920. He received a doctorate in 15th-century Persian poetry from the University of Tehran and a second doctorate in ancient Iranian languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

In 1958, he became a visiting professor of Indo-Iranian languages and religions at Columbia University. Three years later he was named Columbia's first chairman of Iranian Studies. In 1968, he founded the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia. He founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture. He started the project in 1972 and retired as the editor in chief in 2017 at the letter K. He was also the editor of a 40-volume translation of the scholar al-Tabari's 10th-century history of the world and the founding editor of a classic multivolume series of Persian literature. He died on September 2, 2018 at the age of 98.

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