The Philosophy of Ecstasy
Rumi and the Sufi Tradition
Published on 1. December 2014
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Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-936597-42-0 (ISBN)
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In addition to being one of the best known poets in the world, Jalal al-Din Rumi was also one of the preeminent thinkers of Sufism, the esoteric form of Islam. The Philosophy of Ecstasy is a collection of 13 groundbreaking essays by some of the world's leading authorities, including Franklin Lewis, Kabir Helminski, Alan Williams, and Carl Ernst, which examines Rumi's thought and poetry in the context of the Sufi tradition to which he belonged.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
525 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936597-42-0 (9781936597420)
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Leonard Lewisohn is Senior Lecturer in Persian and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies of the University of Exeter. He is the author of Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari and editor of three volumes on The Heritage of Sufism. Lewisohn is also the editor of the Mawlana Rumi Review,an annual journal devoted to the work of Rumi.