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Title: Rumi's World: The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet by Annemarie Schimmel ISBN: 0877736111 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: There are a number of writers on Islamic topics that are excellent from differing perspectives. There are only two Western authors, however, that I have any respect for when it comes to the subject of Islamic spirituality. One of them was Frithjof Schuon, and the other is Annemarie Schimmel.
With all of the fuss about Rumi and the whole New Age Sufi thing, it is all too easy to forget that Rumi was a Muslim (sometimes I suspect that too many people would like to forget it). Rumi was the sort of person that he was because he was a Muslim, and not in spite of that fact. Professor Schimmel places Rumi squarely in the Islamic perspective, which is where he belongs. This book provides the best short introduction to his life and thought within that context that I have run across, and I recommend it highly to anyone interested in his life and work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very enlightening
Comment: An excellent piece of writing on the life and poetry of Rumi. Gives a biographical sketch as well as outlines the technicalities of Rumi's prose, his beliefs and ideas as rendered in poetry. One of the most moving book's I've ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful, poetic, biography of the great Mawlana Rumi.
Comment: This book is the best biography of Mawlana Jalal uddin Rumi (may his secret be sanctified!) that I have read in the English language to date. The prose itself is absolutely wonderful and is almost poetry in itself! Added to this is Prof. Schimmel's intimate knowledge of the works and life of Mawlana Rumi which she does a wonderful job of presenting. Also, unlike other Orientalist interpreters of Sufism, she firmly places Rumi within the orthodox Islamic framework and ideology/world-view where he belongs. Her translations of his poems are also delightful. This book is highly recommended for all those Muslim and non-Muslim who are interested in the life and works of one of the greatest Saints to ever walk this earth.
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Title: Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel ISBN: 0807812714 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks ISBN: 0062509594 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: As Through A Veil by Annemarie Schimmel ISBN: 1851682740 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Rumi, A Spiritual Biogrpahy (Lives & Legacies) by Leslie Wines ISBN: 0824523520 Publisher: National Book Network Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems by Coleman Barks, John Moyne, Nevit Ergin, A. Arberry, Reynold A. Nicholson, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi ISBN: 0060604530 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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