Love is a Stranger
"Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven...
View ArticleTeachings of Rumi
Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led the quiet life of an Islamic teacher in the central Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of thirty-seven, when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz
View ArticleFeeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi
These selections from Rumi's <i>Mathnawi</i>
View ArticleThe Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
As human beings we stand on the threshold between two realities: the world of material existence and the world of spiritual Being. The "knowing heart" is the sacred place where these two dimensions...
View ArticleRumi's World: The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet
This book (previously published as <i>I Am Wind, You Are Fire</i>) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet, Rumi (1207
View ArticleThe Rumi Collection
Rumi's poems are beloved for their touching perceptions of humanity and the Divine. Here is a rich introduction to the work of the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his...
View ArticleThe Pocket Rumi
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207
View ArticleLove's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207
View ArticleThe Rumi Daybook
"My heart wandered through the world <br>constantly seeking after my cure, <br>but the sweet and delicious water of life <br>had to break through the granite of my...
View ArticleFountain of Youth
<p>Concerned with endings, resonances, and aftermaths, <i>Fountain of Youth</i> explores the mediation of an Arab female poet on the brink of change, documenting moments of...
View ArticleA Monkey at the Window: Selected Poems
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. Famous in his native Sudan, the vivid imagery of his searing, lyric poems create the world afresh in their yearning for...
View ArticleRumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
<p>The acclaimed <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Smash Cut, Flannery,</i> and <i>City Poet</i> delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the...
View ArticleClassical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology
Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts'. Spanning 5,000 years, from the...
View ArticleBeyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laâbi's poetry and literary activism have inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and they resulted...
View ArticleThe Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948
Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades, leading or helping to lead Arab forces...
View ArticleThe Conference of the Birds
<p>Award-winning translator Sholeh Wolpé recaptures the beauty and lyricism of one of Persian literature
View ArticleModern Arabic Poetry: Revolution and Conflict
In Modern Arabic Poetry, Waed Athamneh addresses enduring questions raised from the 1950s to the present as she investigates the impact of past and contemporary Middle Eastern politics on its poetry.
View ArticleCrazy As We Are
Most, if not all, of the popularly read versions of Rumi are not direct translations - they are translations of translations. Dr. Nevit Ergin is a scholar specializing in Sufic literature and Rumi, and...
View ArticleChronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems
<p><i>Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems</i> brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over...
View ArticleGilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems
<p>The<i> Epic of Gilgamesh</i> is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq,...
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