Spiritual Verses

AvThe Jalaluddin Rumi

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Engelska, 2006

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Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-07
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780141936994
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
Översättare:Alan Williams

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Called 'Jelaluddin Balkhi' by the Persians and Afghans, Rumi was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, Afghanistan, then a part of the Persian Empire. He was the greatest mystical poet of Persia, famous for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), a treasure-house of Sufi mysticism. Rumi died on December 17, 1273.Alan Williams is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester.