Rumi /
Schimmel, Annemarie.
Rumi / Annemarie Schimmel and Paul Bergne. - xii, 124 pages ; 22 cm. - Makers of Islamic civilization .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-117) and index.
CONTENTS: Editor's note ; Foreword -- Life and work -- Mevlana's poetical work -- The religious foundations -- Thoughts about God -- Mevlana as teacher -- The mysterium of love -- What does Rumi's work mean to us? -- Bibliographical information -- Notes -- Index.
Situating Rumi in his religious and literary context, this book explains the echoes in Rumi's writings of Qur'an and Prophetic traditions, and the everyday religious life of Muslims, and explains his debt to predecessors among poets like and Fariduddin 'Attar, and Sufis and thinkers like Hallaj, Qushayri, Ghazali.
Translated from the German.
0198099819 (pbk.) 9780198099819 (pbk.)
2014428107
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 --Criticism and interpretation.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 --Religion.
Rumi / Annemarie Schimmel and Paul Bergne. - xii, 124 pages ; 22 cm. - Makers of Islamic civilization .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-117) and index.
CONTENTS: Editor's note ; Foreword -- Life and work -- Mevlana's poetical work -- The religious foundations -- Thoughts about God -- Mevlana as teacher -- The mysterium of love -- What does Rumi's work mean to us? -- Bibliographical information -- Notes -- Index.
Situating Rumi in his religious and literary context, this book explains the echoes in Rumi's writings of Qur'an and Prophetic traditions, and the everyday religious life of Muslims, and explains his debt to predecessors among poets like and Fariduddin 'Attar, and Sufis and thinkers like Hallaj, Qushayri, Ghazali.
Translated from the German.
0198099819 (pbk.) 9780198099819 (pbk.)
2014428107
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 --Criticism and interpretation.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273 --Religion.