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The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition
Winner:Midwest Book Award (MIPA) -Religion (2015)
Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of "Whirling Dervishes," is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his work is such that UNESCO declared 2007 to be "International Rumi Year." However, his writings represent much more than love poetry. Rumi was one of the preeminent thinkers of Sufism, the esoteric form of Islam. In this groundbreaking collection of 13 essays on Rumi, many of the world's leading authorities in the field of Islamic Studies and Persian Literature discuss the major religious themes in his poetry and teachings. In addition to discussing the ideas of love, ecstasy, and music in Rumi's Sufi poetry, the essays offer new historical and theological perspectives on his work. The immortality of the soul, freewill, the nature of punishment and reward, and the relationship of Islam to Christianity are all covered, in order to bring Rumi's poetry properly into the context of the Sufi tradition to which he belonged.
Book Details
- Publisher: World Wisdom Books
- Publish Date: Dec 1st, 2014
- Pages: 340
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.97in - 6.32in - 1.00in - 1.14lb
- EAN: 9781936597420
- Categories: • Islam - Sufi• Comparative Religion• General
About the Author
Leonard Lewisohn is Senior Lecturer in Persian and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter. He is the author of Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari and editor of three volumes on The Heritage of Sufism. Lewisohn is also the editor of the Mawlana Rumi Review, an annual journal devoted to the work of Rumi.
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Praise for this book
"The message of Rumi serves as a beacon of light to dispel the shadows which prevent modern man from seeing even his own image in its true form, and from knowing who he really is."--Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University, editor of The Essential Frithjof Schuon
"Jalaluddin Rumi, better known simply as Rumi, was perhaps the finest Persian poet of all time and a great influence on Muslim writing and culture. His poetry is still well known throughout the modern world, and he is one of the best selling poets in America."-- "BBC"
"The phenomenal interest in Rumi begins with the fact that in the West today we are spiritually starved.... We're reaching out for more and [Rumi] persuades us that there is an alternate reality that transcends, exceeds, and surpasses in every way this mundane mode of existence."--Huston Smith, Syracuse University, author of The World's Religions and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind