This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi


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This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme--over fifty-one thousand verses--inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style.

Author: Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jelaluddin Rumi
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 06/06/2000
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.24w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781570625336
ISBN10: 1570625336
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Asian | General
- Religion | Islam | Sufi

About the Author
John Moyne is a Persian scholar and Emeritus Professor and former head of Linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

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