A review of “Tales of A Modern Sufi”
Excerpt: “So, if you want to experience what sufi stories were really like for the original audience definitely try these. I read them every evening before sleep and can honestly say I only wish there were a few hundred more of them.”… Continue reading
Conflict Resolution Through Rumi
Mevlana’s approach to conflict resolution is simple: “come to me without you, I will come to you without me.” This requirement not only solves, it also prevents conflicts.
“The self is the biggest curse of humanity,
It is a hair in the eye, a thorn in the bottom of the foot.
It impedes seeing and searching for the truth.”… Continue reading
Poetry of Rumi a Unifying Force of Civilizations
24 April 2008
Dr. Nevit Ergin reads from his translation of Rumi’s poetry. (Hemant Bhatnagar)
Dr. Nevit Ergin, a Turkish-American surgeon based in San Mateo, California, and translator of Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi Rumi’s narrative poetry, visited India in connection with the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Persian poet. Though Ergin is a surgeon by… Continue reading
Sufi Poet and Mystic Rumi Remains Compelling to American Readers
Sufi Poet and Mystic Rumi Remains Compelling to American Readers
22 October 2007
Sufi Poet and Mystic Rumi Remains Compelling to American Readers
UNESCO designates 2007 as International Year of Rumi
Washington — Ask Americans who is the most popular poet in the country today, and they might guess Walt Whitman or Robert Frost.
Many might be… Continue reading
How to Identify a First Edition Book
First Edition Books are sought after items for any collector, but how do you identify a first edition book?
What is an Edition?
- an edition represents all printings of the book with one typeset and with no significant alterations between those printings.
What is a Printing?
- this is a single batch Printing of an edition. For example…
…if the publisher’s first print run of a book is 50,000 copies then that’s the 1st… Continue reading
Replicas of the Original Dîvân-i Kebîr | sfumevlana.org
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