Open Secret
Versions of Rumi
Shambhala Publications Inc (Publisher)
Published on 21. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-57062-529-9 (ISBN)
Description
These quatrains and odes reveal a most human and accessible side of the great poet and mystic. They are the personal records of one man's encounter with the Divine.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
NONE
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
127 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57062-529-9 (9781570625299)
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Coleman Barks, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, is Rumi's premier English translator. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
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.
Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was not only a poet, mystic, and the founder of a Sufi order, he was a man of profound insight into the nature of human existence and possibly the greatest mystical poet of any age.
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.
Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was not only a poet, mystic, and the founder of a Sufi order, he was a man of profound insight into the nature of human existence and possibly the greatest mystical poet of any age.