the idiotplayers Podcast featuring Nevit Ergin
You can listen to a conversation with Nevit Ergin by the idiotplayers podcast here: link
Online Ordering
If you would like to order books and are having issues with the bookstore checkout, please send an email to nevite@msn.com so we can personally process the order. We apologize for the inconvenience… 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
13 Century Asia Minor
Crazy As We Are
Mevlana Celaleddin (Cela) Rumi is one of the greatest mystics of all time-bigger then life, yet close to humanity, and able to dissolve all religious and racial boundaries.
Mevlana lived in Asia Minor in the 13th century. All of his earthly beginnings are surrounded by controversy, including date of birth. The historian Eflaki puts… 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
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
“Mevlana is a Prophet!” Article/Interview with Nevit Ergin
http://www.yeniaktuel.com.tr/top104,146@2100.html
We are working on translating the article, Aktüel… Continue reading
Poetry of Rumi a Unifying Force of Civilizations by America.gov - Telling America’s Story
From America.gov, an interview with Nevit Ergin.
Creation and Perception
The following is an essay by Nevit Ergin:
“The soul is just a fish,
Wishes and desires are God’s fishing line.
What a wonderful thing this desire is.
A fisherman that sacrifices souls
The ant doesn’t have wings, but wishes to fly
And pierce the wall of Love’s palace.
Don’t call
Replicas of the Original Dîvân-i Kebîr
A limited number of Replicas of the Original Dîvân-i Kebîr are available through the society. Contact Us.
Transcribed in 1364, the Dîvân-i Kebîr is Mevlana Rumi’s masterpiece. An anthology of lyric poems that contains more than 40,000 verses, it is written in 14th century Khorasani… Continue reading
