Illustrated Rumi

Author: Philip Dunn

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $37.00 NZD
  • : 9780060620189
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • :
  • : October 2010
  • : United States
  • : 36.99
  • : February 2011
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • :
  • :
  • : Philip Dunn
  • :
  • : Paperback
  • : 2-Nov
  • :
  • : en
  • : 891.5511
  • :
  • : 256
  • :
  • : Illustrations
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9780060620189
9780060620189

Description

The bestselling poet in America today, thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jalalu'ddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in translation are accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi tradition. This fresh rendering brings new life to these incomparable parables, which have transcended time, place, culture, and religion to speak directly to the hearts and souls of contemporary readers. With a foreword by Huston Smith, these selections of the inimitable mystic's prose and poetry have been taken from all of the master's works.


Each parable, such as The King and the Handmaiden, The Grocer and the Parrot, The Ugly Old Woman, and The Man Who Was Always Being Swindled, is related as Rumi might have presented it to his fascinated audiences, as he whirled in meditation and trance. But each story also has a spiritual message, a holy essence that applies across all faiths, uttered from the heart of Islam. Each of these messages is provided here in a modern rendering that keeps the flavor of this unique period of history, of culture, and of inspired, passionate beauty.

Author description

Philip Dunn and Manuela Dunn Mascetti founded and ran the British book packagers Labyrinth, and then moved to Mill Valley, California to found their independent book packagers Book Laboratory. They have packaged Huston Smith's The Illustrated World Religions for HSF, Stephen Hawking's The Illustrated Brief History of Time for Bantam, and Thomas Moore's The Illustrated Care of the Soul for HarperCollins, as well as Buddha in a Box for Chronicle, Traditions--Jewish Blessings , Prayers and Rituals for the Family by Dr. Avram Davis and Sarah Shendelman for Hyperion, and numerous other books.