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From: Parnassus: Poetry in Review[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Barber reviews several contemporary translations of Rumi's works, including Coleman Barks's The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting, Coleman Barks and John Moyne's The Essential Rumi,...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe neoliberal restructuring of higher education everywhere is accompanied by a distinctive branch of knowledge known as activist scholarship. Drawing from a number of disciplines including education, sociology, social...
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From: Comparative Literature Studies[(essay date March 1980) In the following essay, Fayez analyzes the concept of "the Divine" in Rumi and Whitman and also argues, through close readings of several of Rumi's ghazals, against Whitman's "Chanting in the...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 70, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The first name mentioned in Rumi's (1) (1207-1273) masterpiece, the Masnavi is Plato: Love is the cure for our arrogance and wickedness; it is our Plato and Galen. (Masnavi 1:24) Given that...
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From: The Journal of Narrative Technique[In the essay below, King studies Rumi's narrative technique and asserts that “the 'meaning' of the Mathnawi cannot be separated from the narrative and the peculiar form into which it is cast.”] The Mathnawi, composed...
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From:[In the following excerpt, Renard discusses the prophetic imagery found in Rumi's writings and examines the function of the prophets and Muhammad as models of the spiritual guide. Please note that the parenthetical...
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From: Iranian Studies[(essay date winter 1999) In the following essay, Hamid considers the narrative structure of and absence of telos in Rumi's Mathnawi to explore the nature of language in that work.] ba'd az sama' guyi k-an shur-ha kuja...
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From: Rumi: A Spiritual Biography[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Wines examines the significance of Rumi's love poetry to a contemporary, Western audience while also providing a historical context for Rumi's ecumenical spirit and ideas about...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 142, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEsrefoglu Rumi was a Sufi master and poet from the time of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (Fatih, The Conqueror). His principal writings, a small collection of poems (divan) and a treatise Miizekki'n-nufus (Disciplining...
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From: Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal Al-Din Rumi[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Keshavarz notes that Rumi produced "over 35,000 verses celebrating the absence of speech," analyzes the varieties of silence in Rumi's Divan, and compares the silences of Rumi...
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From:New Orleans Review (Vol. 50) Peer-ReviewedAll the past years I had visited Molana Rumi in Konya, I had never heard of that house. I knocked and a young woman with long, black hair opened the door for me. Not surprised by strangers, she welcomed me inside without...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 83, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWalt Whitman's poetry bears much in common with the poetry of the Turkish poet Rumi, despite superficial differences in their lives. Rumi came from an educated family and had many friends. Whitman's direct literary...
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From: Parabola[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Helminski, a translator of Rumi and practicing Sufi, explores the place of ecstasy in Rumi's ghazals, Sufi spirituality, and contemporary culture. Helminski argues that...
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From: The Life and Work of Muhammad Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi[In the essay below, originally published in 1956, Iqbal examines the message of Rumi's Mathnavi and discusses such concepts as the relation between love and intellect, the nature of the self, evolution, determinism and...
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From: Horizons[(essay date fall 1985) In the following essay, Renard discusses Rumi's work as an important aid in understanding the cosmology and psychology of classical Islam.] Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-73) is widely reputed to be...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 137, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEsrefoglu Rumi (d. 875/1469?) and Ummi Kemal (d. 880/1475?) are prominent practitioners of Ottoman Sufi (tekke) poetry-literature that emerged from the environment of Anatolian Sufi orders. The parallel histories of the...
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From: Rumi: Poet and Mystic (1207-1275)[In the following excerpt, redrafted by A. J. Arberry and published five years after Nicholson's death, Nicholson discusses the pantheistic themes found in Rumi's Mathnavi and praises the poem's “exhilarating sense of...
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From: The Metaphysics of Rumi: A Critical and Historical Sketch[In the following essay, originally published in 1933, Hakim compares Rumi's “philosophy of love” to the theories of Plato.] If there is anything in Rumi's mysticism that defies all attempts at analysis, that is his...
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From:Thoreau Society Bulletin (Issue 309)For Natalie Baker, Kate Manolakos and Robert Hajek Thoreau says, "Be not simply good --be good for something." (1) As a translator of Walden into Persian, I know that a mere good translation of this masterpiece is not...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 52) Peer-ReviewedAquí comentaré, en un primer estudio, un manuscrito de cuatro páginas del que tengo una fotocopia que el profesor Daniel Balderston me dio al enterarse que estaba investigando al poeta y filósofo Rumi (1207-1273), la...