Rumi Illustrated

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes, including love, marriage, life and death, passion and mysticism, as well as his religious collection, Rubaiyat, and his long poem, Masnavi, one of the most influential works of Sufism, an Islamic form of mysticism. Rumi's reach transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: his poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages. Poems included in this volume: A Cry to the Beloved, The Prince of the Fair, Mortality and Immortality, Remember God and Forget Self, Thou Art the Soul of the World, The Moon-Soul and the Sea, Our Desert hath No Bound, The Divine Friend, When I Die, The Journey to the Beloved, The World gave thee False Clues, At Morning Tide, Thou and I. From the Masnavi: The Prince and the Handmaid, The Lion and the Beasts, The Sufi's Beast,The Falcon and the Owls, The King and his Two Slaves, The Man who made a Pet of a Bear, The Travellers who ate the Young Elephant, The Jackal who Pretended to be a Peacock, The Elephant in a Dark Room, Mahmud and Ayaz, The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass, The Three Travellers.