Medias
Rumi: Poems
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The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his
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Technical specifications
Release date | June 06th 2006 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Collection | Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |