Bibliograph

The essence of Rumi, John Baldock

Type

Label

The essence of Rumi, John Baldock

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The essence of Rumi

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

John Baldock

Summary

Get drunk on Love, for Love is all that exists. Unless you make Love your business, you will not be admitted to the Beloved,' (Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz 455:A1:54). The thirteenth-century saint Jalaluddin Rumi has been called the greatest mystical poet of any age, and his work compared to that of Dante and Shakespeare. Over a period of 25 years he composed over 70,000 verses of poetry on the subjects of divine love, mystic passion and ecstatic illumination. Rumi was also a master story-teller, as this comprehensive exploration of his work so rewardingly reveals. Primarily an introduction to Rumi and the path of self-surrender, it is arranged in such a way that it guides the reader from the poet's outer, historical world to the inner, spiritual essence of his teaching. The Essence of Rumi offers us the opportunity to overcome the limitations of our human view of the world and transform our sensory eye into the poet's all-seeing Ocean of Reality

Target audience

adult

Classification