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Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi - Banani, Amin (Editor), and Hovannisian, Richard (Editor), and Sabagh, Georges (Editor)
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Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. He was born in Balkh (Korasan) in AD 1207 and died in Konya (Turkey) in AD 1273. This book is an examination of his spiritual and literary heritage. As Annemarie Schimmel, the recipient of the Eleventh Giorgio Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies, has written, 'no other mystic and poet from the Islamic world is as well known in the West as Rumi', and she, more than any Western scholar, is his most celebrated and eloquent interpreter. ...

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Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521454766

Hardcover