The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Author : Charles Francis Horne
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English literature
ISBN :
The Essential Rumi
Author : Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 9780140195798
Book Description
Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
A Two-Colored Brocade
Author : Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 9780807856208
Book Description
Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry
Rumi: The Big Red Book
Author : Coleman Barks
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062020781
Book Description
“Really, what other book would anyone ever need?” —Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Honeybee “Elegant and exquisite.” —Deepak Chopra, author of Muhammad, Jesus, and Buddha The Big Red Book is a poetic masterpiece from Jalaluddin Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic whom Time magazine calls “the most popular poet in America.” Readers continue to be awed and inspired by Rumi’s masterfully lyrical, deeply expressive poems, collected in volumes such as The Illustrated Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, and the bestselling The Essential Rumi. With The Big Red Book, acclaimed poet and Rumi interpreter Coleman Barks offers a never-before-published translation of a crucial anthology of poems widely considered to be one of Persian literature’s greatest treasures.
Legend of Seyavash
Author : Shahnameh Ferdowsi
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780140448399
Book Description
Ferdowsi, acknowledged as the greatest of Persian writers, completed his great epic the Shahnameh (Book of Kings)around 1010 AD - legend claims that it was written over 35 years as a dowry for his daughter. This is one of its many tales and is presented here in couplet form.
Conference of the Birds
Author : John Heilpern
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780878301102
Book Description
"Part theater expedition and experiment, part spiritual search and comedy of errors, Brook's adventure was in essence a search for a new beginning and a completely new form of theater. The actors performed at each village they came to improvising before stunned villagers with whom they shared no common language. The outcome was to have far-reaching implications for the future of theater and a seminal impact on all of Brook's groundbreaking work thereafter - from his ninety-minute Carmen to his seven-hour epic, The Mahabharata."--BOOK JACKET. "This classic book is the most penetrating account written about the ideas and personality of the man described as the world's greatest theater director."--BOOK JACKET.
The Masnavi, Book One
Author : Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192804383
Book Description
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The Persianate World
Author : Nile Green
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0520300920
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Fourteen essays trace Persian’s interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages to identify the forces that extended “Persographia,” the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history’s key languages of global exchange.
An English-Persian Dictionary
Author : Arthur Naylor Wollaston
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN :
Book Description
The Persian Mystics
Author : Frederick Hadland Davis
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1602063710
Book Description
Rumi (1207-1273) was a Persian jurist and theologian best known for being perhaps the finest of all Sufi poets. His writings have been widely translated and remain especially popular in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Though written from a Sufi perspective, Rumi's poems on spiritual growth-here collected and edited by F. Hadland Davis and first published in 1907-cross all cultural and religious bounds, and can still be heard today in many secular and religious settings. The Persian Mystics: Jalalu'd-din Rumi includes selections from some of Rumi's most famous works, the "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" and the "Masnavi," as well as passages on his life and work, and the origin and nature of Sufism. FREDERICK HADLAND DAVIS is also the author of The Persian Mystics: Jami (1908) and Myths and Legends of Japan (1912), both available from Cosimo.
