Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi
10 best books like Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi (Mahmood Jamal): The Conference of the Birds, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia: Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz, Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, گلشن راز, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Risalah Untuk Kaum Muslimin, Budaya Ilmu: Satu Penjelasan
| Author | Attar of Nishapur |
| ISBN | 0393355543 |
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh,...
| Author | Annemarie Schimmel |
| ISBN | 0807812714 |
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel,...
| Author | Coleman Barks |
| ISBN | 0930872479 |
The book offer entrance into a world and beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on Persian poetry given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who brought Sufis to the West. Then it offers fresh translations by the poet Coleman Barks of some of the poetry Inayat Khan...
| Author | Franklin D. Lewis |
| ISBN | 1851682147 |
Just reading in this again. I don't see how it can be over-praised. I'm not a scholar of East Asian literatures, nor a comparative medievalist, so I speak with no authority more than a sincere desire to move closer to Rumi's vast oeurve, in English, sorting through the issues of Persian as scrupulously...
| Author | Tina Chang |
| ISBN | 0393332381 |
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
کتاب گلشن راز اثر مشهور سعدالدّین محمودبن امینالدّین عبدالکریمبن یحیی شبستری، معروف به شیخ محمود شبستری، کتابی است عرفانی که در سال 717 هجری قمری به نظم...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
| Author | Anthony Thwaite |
| ISBN | 0141190949 |
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic...
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| ISBN | 0930872657 |
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience...
Risalah Untuk Kaum Muslimin
| Author | Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas |
| ISBN | 9839379186 |
Buku ini adalah catatan kata lisan Prof. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas pada tahun 1973, ketika beliau bertugas di UKM sebagai Mahaguru Penyandang Kerusi Bahasa dan Kesusasteraan Melayu dan juga sebagai Pengasas serta Pengarah Institut Bahasa, Kesusasteraan dan Kebudayaan Melayu di universiti...
Budaya Ilmu: Satu Penjelasan
| Author | Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud |
Buku ini merupakan edisi kedua karya yang pernah diterbitkan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka pada 1991 dan diulang cetak sebanyak tiga kali. Edisi ini mengandungi dua bab baru. Kekeliruan dalam usaha memartabatkan budaya ilmu untuk mencetus keghairahan mencari ilmu dan membina diri insan, masyarakat...
| Author | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali |
Mankind is hungry, but the feast is there, though it is locked up and hidden away. It is the aim of this Series to put it within reach, so that we may stretch forth our hands to the good cheer laid before us.
Deliverance from Error is the spiritual autobiography of Al-Ghazali, and The Beginning of...
| Author | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali |
| ISBN | 0842523537 |
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the end of his illustrious career, advances the philosophically...
Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings
| Author | Michael A. Sells |
| ISBN | 0809136198 |
The first centuries of Islam saw the development of Sufism as one of the world's major mystical traditions. Although the later Sufi writings by mystics such as Rumi are known and available in translation, access to the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism has been far more limited.
This...
The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944
| Author | Muhammad Iqbal |
| ISBN | 1417977868 |
Iqbal is for me what Rumi was for Iqbal.
You will read this very casually at first, lying in your bed and then you will almost sit in your bed, and then you will sit upright and the book will get closer to your face and then you will lose the back support and you will sit with your legs crossed and leaning forward...
| Author | Kabir |
| ISBN | 1406931853 |
DANCE, my heart! dance to-day with joy.
The strains of love fill the days and the nights with music, and the world is listening to its melodies:
Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music. The hills and the sea and the earth dance. The world of man dances in laughter and tears.
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Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes....
| Author | Omid Safi |
| ISBN | 0061231347 |
Who was the historical Muhammad, and how do Muslims remember him—as a holy prophet, a cultural revolutionary, a military leader, or a spiritual mystic? Unending media coverage of extremist fanatics, the controversy over offensive cartoon depictions of Muhammad, and fatwas against journalists...
| Author | Idries Shah |
| ISBN | 0140192522 |
In this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, contemplations, letters, lectures, and teaching stories that together form an illuminating introduction to this unique body of thought.
Sufism, the...
