"...effectively convinces the reader of the aesthetic beauty existent in the writings of Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi and whets the appetite for more of the lyrical mystic's wisdom." Chris Muehlenberg, Digest of Middle East Studies

• Presentation of award to eleventh recipient, Annemarie Schimmel Georges Sabagh; Introduction Amin Banani; l. Mawlana Rumi: yesterday, today and tomorrow Annemarie Schimmel; 2. Rumi the poet Amin Banani; 3. 'Speech is a ship and meaning the sea': some formal aspects of the ghazal poetry of Rumi J. Christoph Burgel; 4. Rumi and wahdat al-wujud William C. Chittick; 5. Rumi and the problems of theodicy: moral imagination and narrative discourse in a story of the Masnavi Hamid Dabashi; 6. Folk tradition in the Masnavi and theMasnavi in folk tradition Margaret Mills; 7. The fortress of forms: Rumi and Galib Victoria Holbrook; Index.

"...effectively convinces the reader of the aesthetic beauty existent in the writings of Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi and whets the appetite for more of the lyrical mystic's wisdom." Chris Muehlenberg, Digest of Middle East Studies

• Presentation of award to eleventh recipient, Annemarie Schimmel Georges Sabagh; Introduction Amin Banani; l. Mawlana Rumi: yesterday, today and tomorrow Annemarie Schimmel; 2. Rumi the poet Amin Banani; 3. 'Speech is a ship and meaning the sea': some formal aspects of the ghazal poetry of Rumi J. Christoph Burgel; 4. Rumi and wahdat al-wujud William C. Chittick; 5. Rumi and the problems of theodicy: moral imagination and narrative discourse in a story of the Masnavi Hamid Dabashi; 6. Folk tradition in the Masnavi and theMasnavi in folk tradition Margaret Mills; 7. The fortress of forms: Rumi and Galib Victoria Holbrook; Index.

"...effectively convinces the reader of the aesthetic beauty existent in the writings of Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi and whets the appetite for more of the lyrical mystic's wisdom." Chris Muehlenberg, Digest of Middle East Studies

• Presentation of award to eleventh recipient, Annemarie Schimmel Georges Sabagh; Introduction Amin Banani; l. Mawlana Rumi: yesterday, today and tomorrow Annemarie Schimmel; 2. Rumi the poet Amin Banani; 3. 'Speech is a ship and meaning the sea': some formal aspects of the ghazal poetry of Rumi J. Christoph Burgel; 4. Rumi and wahdat al-wujud William C. Chittick; 5. Rumi and the problems of theodicy: moral imagination and narrative discourse in a story of the Masnavi Hamid Dabashi; 6. Folk tradition in the Masnavi and theMasnavi in folk tradition Margaret Mills; 7. The fortress of forms: Rumi and Galib Victoria Holbrook; Index.