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"This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations. At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love for both humanity and the Divine as the ultimate path leading humanity back to God. Safi brings together for the first time the passages of the Qur'an sought by the Muslim sages, the mystical sayings of the Prophet, and the teachings of the path of "Divine love." Accurately and sensitively translated by leading scholar of Islam Omid Safi, the writings of Jalal al-Din Balkhi (Rumi) can now be read alongside passages by Kharaqani, 'Attar, Hafez of Shiraz, Abu Sa'id-e Abi 'l-Khayr, and other key Muslim mystics. For the millions of readers whose lives have been touched by Rumi's poetry, here is a chance to see the Arabic and Persian traditions that produced him."--Amazon.

Islamic poetry, Arabic --- Islamic poetry, Persian --- Translations into English --- Islam

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Regarded by many as the last great mystical poet of medieval Persia, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492) spent the greater part of his life in Herat. As a student, he excelled in every subject he engaged in and appeared destined for an academic career. But then, in his early thirties, he went through a spiritual crisis that ended in him joining the Herat branch of the mystical Naqshbandiyya order, led by the charismatic Saʿd al-Dīn Kāshgharī (d. 860/1456). A protégé of three successive Timurid rulers in Herat, Jāmī's wide network of friendships and relations extended from spiritual and literary circles through the political to the academic. With 39.000 lines of verse and over 30 prose works to his name, Jāmī's literary production is quite overwhelming. The present volume, containing 433 of his letters and messages, bears witness to his great yet modest personality, his social engagement, and the expanse and variety of his network.

Persian poetry. --- Islamic poetry, Arabic. --- Jāmī,

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This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.

Sufi poetry. --- Mwini dialect. --- Af-Chimwiini dialect --- Barwaani dialect --- Bravanese dialect --- Chimwiini dialect --- Mwiini dialect --- Swahili language --- Sufism --- Islamic poetry --- Religious poetry --- Sufi literature --- Baraawe (Somalia) --- Brava (Somalia)

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An allegorical poem about the search of the world's birds for the perfect king illustrates the mystical beliefs of sufism. This 12th century century Sufic poem explores the nature of the spiritual path through an allegory of birds that go in search of a king, which represents the seeker as he travels towards enlightenment.

Sufi poetry. --- Sufi poetry, Persian. --- Sufism --- Sufism. --- Sufi poetry --- Sufi poetry, Persian --- Persian Sufi poetry --- Persian poetry --- Islamic poetry --- Sufi literature --- Early works to 1800 --- Mystik. --- Poetry in Persian, 1000-1389 - English texts. --- ʻAṭṭār, Farīd-ad-Dīn, --- ʻAṭṭār, Farīd-ad-Dīn. --- Iran (Altertum).