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The Essential Rumi - Reissue: New Expanded Edition

by Coleman Barks

ISBN13: 9780062509581
ISBN10: 0062509586
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The life of Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a brilliant scholar and popular teacher, was forever changed when he met a powerful wandering dervish and began a new plateau of spiritual enlightenment. Now, from the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by this extraordinary Sufi mystic.

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From the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by the extraordinary thirteenth-century Sufi mystic.

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Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers's PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances. This book is the culmination of over thirty years of Barks's work on Rumi's seminal classic.

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ISBN:: 9780062509581
Translator:: Moyne, John
Translator:: Moyne, John
Author:: Barks, Coleman
Author:: Jalal
Author:: by Coleman Barks
Author:: Rumi, Jalalu'l-Din
Author:: Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
Publisher:: HarperOne
Subject:: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:: Inspirational & Religious
Subject:: Translations into english
Subject:: Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Subject:: Sufism
Subject:: Sufi poetry
Subject:: Sufi poetry, Persian
Subject:: Christianity - Catechisms
Subject:: Islam - Sufism
Subject:: Jalal al-Din Rumi - Translations into English
Subject:: Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General
Edition Description:: Hardcover
Publication Date:: 20040531
Binding:: HARDCOVER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 416
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.3125 x 1.29 in 20 oz

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