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Rumi: Past and Present, East and West

10 best books like Rumi: Past and Present, East and West (Franklin D. Lewis): Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi, Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life, Walt Whitman: A Life, The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1-200, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalāloddin Rumi, Sufism: An Introduction To The Mystical Tradition Of Islam, Risalah Untuk Kaum Muslimin, Budaya Ilmu: Satu Penjelasan, Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error & The Beginning of Guidance, Perempuan Nan Bercinta

Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi
AuthorMahmood Jamal
ISBN0140424733
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
AuthorAnnie Cohen-Solal
ISBN1565849744
One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal...
Walt Whitman: A Life
AuthorJustin Kaplan
ISBN0060535113
“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking—hugely human, enormously attractive.”  —Newsweek

A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet—his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility—an exuberant life entwined...
The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1-200
AuthorRumi
ISBN0226731510
Rumi, who wrote and preached in Persia during the thirteenth century, was inspired by a wandering mystic, or dervish, named Shams al-Din. Rumi's vast body of poetry includes a lengthy poem of religious mysticism, the Mathnavi, and more than three thousand lyrics and odes. A.J. Arberry, who selected...
The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalāloddin Rumi
AuthorAnnemarie Schimmel
ISBN0791416364
This is a book on Rumi's life, his poetry, his thought, and his influence. Rumi's work forms one of the pillars of the Sufi orders, particularly the Mevlevi order, better known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes. In this book Rumi emerges not only as a spiritual master, but also as a fully human being...
Sufism: An Introduction To The Mystical Tradition Of Islam
AuthorCarl W. Ernst
ISBN1570621802
The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco to India to China—and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance. They are said to represent the mystical heart of Islam, yet the term Sufism is notoriously difficult to define, as it means...
Risalah Untuk Kaum Muslimin
AuthorSyed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
ISBN9839379186
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
AuthorWan 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...
Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error & The Beginning of Guidance
AuthorAbu 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...
Perempuan Nan Bercinta
AuthorFaisal Tehrani
ISBN9789830688
"Cari perempuan mulia yang menentang sehingga mati, cari perempuan yang menentang meskipun sudah mati."

Sejak 1515 dan Tuhan Manusia, Perempuan Nan Bercinta adalah karya Faisal Tehrani yang paling provokatif setakat ini.

"Tidak syak lagi, sejauh ini, suaranya 'menentang'...
Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Anta Diop
AuthorIvan Van Sertima
ISBN0887386806
This book, the first in a series of work on Africans, whose life and thought have left a major impact on the world, is devoted to the Senegalese physicist, historian and linguist, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, who was born in Diourbel, Senegal on December 29, 1923, and died in Dakar on February 7, 1986. No figure...
The Niche of Lights
AuthorAbu Hamid al-Ghazali
ISBN0842523537
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...
Numerology, the Complete Guide
AuthorMatthew Oliver Goodwin
ISBN0878770534
One of the most thorough books in numerology I've read. It is definitely a prime reference book for those interested in learning the in's and out's of this technique. Volume 1 goes on about defining the different personality aspects of a person or individual, creating a chart, including many "scripts"...
Filsafat Ilmu: Perspektif Barat dan Islam
AuthorAdian Husaini
Rujukan awal yang penting dalam memahami wacana falsafah ilmu daripada pandangan alam Barat dan Islam. Penulis-penulis makalah dalam buku ini ialah anak murid Prof Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas yang kini menjadi barisan hadapan sarjana yang berdepan dengan kelompok liberalis dan pluralis di...
The Testimony Of Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa
AuthorSteve Biko
ISBN0394727398
In May 1976, nine Blacks were arrested in South Africa and charged with terrorism for having 'thoughts' unacceptable to the regime. Bantu Stephen Biko, that country's most important Black leader, stepped forward to testify on their behalf and thus broke the ban on his public speaking.

In...
Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past Thousand Years
AuthorIdries Shah
ISBN0140193588
Dervish tales are more than fable, legend, or folklore. For centuries dervish masters have instructed their disciples by means of these teaching stories, which are said to increase perception and knowledge and provide a better understanding of man and the world. In wit, construction, and piquancy,...
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