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

2 reviews
Jelaluddin Rumi

Threshold Books, 1988

insightful and refreshing
An excellent translation. He who reads this book will try to remember all that is in it.

Rumi and the Sufi Tradition

1 review
John A. Moyne

Global Publications, 1998

Rumi's life and poetry within the context of Sufi history.
Rumi Web links abound. An Internet search yielded more than 6,000 results. Amazon.com lists 114 books by and about Rumi. Who was Rumi? Why does his poetry still resonate so powerfully? Why does the 13th century Sufi mystic's influence continue to grow and spread throughout the world? A recently published monograph, Rumi and the Sufi Tradition by John A. Moyne, helps to answer these ...

Say I Am You: Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams

1 review
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne, ...

Maypop Books, 1994

Good introduction to teaching story and poetry
This book is an excellent introduction to stories and poetry of Rumi, Shams (and even Rumi's son). The translations are secondary translations i.e. reworkings into free verse older more scholarly and literal translations. As such they make the works more readily accessable to the non-scholar. The stories provide a pleasant mix of relatively rare tales (stories that are quite specifically Sufi) ...

Rumi The Book Of Love: Poems Of Ecstasy And Longing

7 reviews
Coleman Barks, John Moyne, ..., 2005

Like trying to condense the ocean into a review form......
How can I put into words the absolute wordless dimension this collection of poems creates within me? The commentaries and introduction sections by Coleman Barks are valuable as well beyond words. The reader would gain insights simply by picking it up and thumbing to any page and just read, read! My daughter and I tried this, we would bring up topics and then say "And what does Rumi say?" ...

Open Secret: Versions of Rumi

9 reviews
John Moyne, Coleman Barks

Shambhala, 1999

A must in all collections & a beatiful introduction to Rumi.
The open secret, available to all but few listen. That is the feeling you get when you let these wonderful writings flow over and through you. Some short, some longer, each writing is a treasure. The more you read (or listen if you've been fortunate to get the audio condensed version from this work) the deeper each verse becomes. I've owned the printed copy for years and every read brings new ...

A Bird In The Garden Of Angels: On the Life and Times and an Anthology of Rumi
John A. Moyne, Richard Jeffrey Newman

Mazda Publishers, 2007

The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

16 reviews
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne

HarperOne, 2002

Amazing!
I find it absolutely amazing that those who claim to be admirers of Rumi, online reviewers and editorial reviewers, do NOT even know where he was born! Persia, not Afghanistan, was his birthplace. Afghanistan did not even exist until the 19th century, thanks to the British.The land that is now called Afghanistan was part of the Persian Empire and remained so for centuries AFTER Rumi's death (500 ...

Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi

3 reviews
Jelaluddin Rumi

Threshold Books, 1986

The Most Beautiful Poetry on the Planet
If I were stuck on that proverbial desert island with just one book, this would be it. I've read these graceful four line poems over and over, and every time gain fresh insight. The genius of this work is that it can be read on so many different levels--give it to a couple newly in love and they can read it to each other as a book of love poems. Give it to a serious seeker of God and they will ...

The Essential Rumi

69 reviews
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Castle Books, 1997

this is a transcendence, not a 'translation'
don't get hung up on the hang ups of scholars and other strait-jacket types. this stuff is rumi translated, not literally, but soulfully. and that method usually fails. not here.

The Drowned Book : Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi

3 reviews
Coleman Barks, John Moyne, 2004

Coleman Barks does it again!
As always, Coleman Barks gives us a beautifully inspirational book to wake up to, travel with or turn to when we forget how wonderful God is. If you love his books on Rumi you will love this one too.

The Essential Rumi
Coleman (TRN)/ Moyne, John/ Arberry, A. J./ Nicholson, Reynold/ Barks, Coleman Jalal Al-Din Rumi/ Barks

Harpercollins, 1995

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