Rumi: The Big Red Book - The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

Zusatztext "Barks has become internationally renowned for his translations.... Rumi: The Big Red Book is the culmination of his work." Informationen zum Autor Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances. Klappentext Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a wild mystic with rare gifts and insight. The renowned scholar Rumi had found a soul mate and friend who would become his spiritual mentor and literary muse. "What I had thought of before as God," Rumi said, "I met today in a human being." Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote thousands of lyric poems and short quatrains in honor of his friend Shams Tabriz. They are poems of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been bound in a red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of spiritual literature. Zusammenfassung Considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, this title is written by a medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Coleman Barks, Barks Coleman
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780061905834
• ISBN: 978-0-06-190583-4
• Seiten: 512
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Poetry, Asia, Middle East, Theology, Anthologies: general, Aspects of religion, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Religion and beliefs, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Islamic groups: Sufis, ISLAMIC STUDIES: LITERATURE, RELIGION: Mysticism, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, RELIGION: Islam / Sufi, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Middle Eastern, POETRY: Middle Eastern, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Asian / General, RELIGION: Islam / Theology, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Religious, Islamic Studies / Literature, Poetry / Poets: H to Z