Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet Another Rumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's translations capture the inward exploration and intensity that characterize Rumi's poetry, making this unique voice of mysticism and desire contemporary while remaining true to the original poems. In this volume readers will encounter the essence of Sufism's insights into the experience of divine love, wisdom, and the nature of both humanity and God.
While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it is Rumi's voice that leaps off these pages with a rapturous power that leaves readers breathless. These poems express our deepest yearning for the transcendent connection with the source of the divine: there are passionate outbursts about the torment of longing for the beloved and the sweet delight that comes from union; stories of sexual adventures and of loss; poems of love and fury, sadness and joy; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. For Rumi, soul and body and emotion are not separate but are rather part of the great mystery of mortal life, a riddle whose solution is love. Above all else, Rumi's poetry exposes us to the delight that comes from being fully alive, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk of discovering our core self:No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. These fresh, original translations magnificently convey Rumi's insights into the human heart and its longings with his signature passion and daring, focusing on the ecstatic experience of the inseparability of human and divine love. The match between Rumi's sublime poetry and Coleman Barks's poetic art are unequaled, and here this artistic union is raised to new heights.

The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

Self-Help

Coleman Barks

John Moyne

Nevit Ergin

A. Arberry

Reynold A. Nicholson

Maulana Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Motivational

HarperOne

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The Kashf Al-Mahjub: The Oldest Persian Treatise on Sufism (1911)

Kessinger Publishing

The Mystics of Islam

A classic and definitive introduction to the message of Sufism.

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

World Wisdom

Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz

Taylor&Francis

A Literary History of the Arabs

Studies in Islamic Mysticism

Like Rumi, Hafiz and Attar, al-Hujwiri was one of the great saints of Sufism. Revelation of the Mystery, or Kashf al-mahjub, has been revered by students of Sufism for nine centuries. This classic text contains biographies of the saints, including Fudayl, the brigand who became a great spiritual teacher; Ibrahim Adham, the prince who renounced everything when he received the divine call; and al-Hallaj, the great Sufi martyr. Al-Hujwiri also offers the spiritual seeker universal and timeless advice on many subjects, such as contemplation, generosity, spiritual courtesy, prayer, love and distinguishing false spirituality and false teachers from the real, a discernment just as important today as then.

Revelation of the Mystery

Biographies & Memoirs

Carl W. Ernst

Al-Hujwiri

Leaders & Notable People

Pir Press

Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) better known in the West as Rumi, is one of the greatest spiritual teachers and mystic poets of all times. He stands out like a peak amidst high mountains looking over the vast oasis of human existence. His spiritual message has touched millions of souls and hearts over the centuries. 

Rumi has combined the lore of religion, Sufism and poetry before him with rare perspicacity and eloquence. His life and the Mawlawi tradition which he established are a living testimony to the vibrancy of the spiritual message of Islam.

R.A. Nicholson is a well-known orientalist who has translated this great literature work on Mathnawi into English.

The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi

Erman Printing House

The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays, satires, de arte amoris), religious, mystical and philosophical writings, and huge compendia of history, biography and geography. For sixty years, the best account in English of this vast output has been, by universal consent, R. A. Nicholson's Literary History of the Arabs; its supremacy will long remain unchallenged. That it is a book full of erudition and high critical judgement goes without saying; its author is also a poet-translator of rare excellence.

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Kitab Bhavan

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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