The Illuminated Rumi

10 best books like The Illuminated Rumi (Rumi): The Divan, The Gift, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, The Conference of the Birds, Blue Horses, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West

The Divan

Author	Hafez
ISBN	9646534783

The Persian poet Hafez (1320-1389) is best known as a Sufi mystic who incorporated elements of Sufism into his verses. The state of God-Realisation is symbolised through union with a Beloved, and drinking the wine of spiritual love.

This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile...

The Gift

Author	Hafez
ISBN	0140195815

More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."

With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Author	Abolqasem Ferdowsi
ISBN	0670034851

Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning...

The Conference of the Birds

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,...

Blue Horses

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	1594204799

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.

Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and...

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Author	Richard Bach
ISBN	0099427869

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald...

I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

Author	Hafez
ISBN	0143037811

From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers

To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	1573225851

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0807068756

Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original...

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West

Author	Daniel Ladinsky
ISBN	0142196126

Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz

In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...

The Bezels of Wisdom

Author	Ibn Arabi
ISBN	0809123312

Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...