RUMI :UNSEEN POEMS.The Essential Rumi, The Masnavi. Book Four. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. Sufi dervishes；伊斯蘭蘇菲概論【#人與書國際週報】005： homage to Jalal al-Din al-Rumi,

Everyman's Library 

The famed Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi's poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual, describing divine love in rapturously human terms.

In this new translation—composed almost entirely of untranslated gems from Rumi's vast ouevre—Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz aim to achieve greater fidelity to the originals while still allowing Rumi's lyric exuberance to shine.

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British Museum

This ceramic bowl was made in 2001 by Algerian artist Rachid Koraïchi as part of his installation ‘The Path of Roses’.

The piece pays homage to Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, a Persian poet born in AD 1207. As a young man Rumi journeyed across North Africa and the Mediterranean to Qonya, in Turkey, and his works are still read widely today.

Made from clay, this bowl is hand thrown and its shape is inspired by both Turkish ceramic ablution basins and astrolabes – medieval navigation devices that combined science, art, astrology and religion.

See this bowl and more breathtaking African art in the Sainsbury Galleries: http://ow.ly/CWK030pUyfm

Path of Roses (1995-2005), Ankara (Turkey), Casablanca (Morocco), New-York (USA), citadel of Algiers (Algeria), Venice Biennale ( Italy), etc.

Path of Roses is an installation in homage to the Sufi poet Jala al Din al Rumi  and his spiritual journey across Asia, the Middle East and Arabia in the 13th century. Path of Roses also celebrates the idea of safar which means both the journey and the transcendence.

rachidkoraichi.com » Path of Roses

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Oxford World's Classics

"Joking is teaching, so take care to listen -
Don't look at just the joke's form of expression.
To jesters every serious thing's hilarious,
While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious."- 'The Masnavi', Book Four


Rumi was born #OTD 1207. Rumi initially followed existing Sufi paths, but became a visionary ecstatic in 1244 after being inspired on a new path of aesthetic and emotional mysticism, which developed into the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) order after his death.



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The Masnavi. Book Four
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishe...

Yale University Press

"religious teachings can become appropriated for institutions, for men, for power, for greed...I wanted to gravitate toward something where love was real." Omid Safi on the power of mystical Islamic poetry in translation

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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition Hardcover – May 22, 2018

by Omid Safi (Editor)

The New Yorker

The Rumi that people love is very beautiful in English, but the price you pay is to cut the culture and religion.

The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi

Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Celebrate the famous Persian poet Rumi’s birthday with today’s Featured Artwork of the Day. In this book manuscript, the text by Jalal al-Din Rumi teaches moral philosophy and mysticism.

Featured Artwork of the Day: Masnavi of Jalal-al Din Rumi | dated A.H. 894/A.D. 1488–89 | Iran http://bit.ly/2a9QtU7

British Museum
Discover delightful depictions of Sufi dervishes in a new small display in Room 34 http://ow.ly/K9TLi

dervish

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Pronunciation: /ˈdəːvɪʃ/

Definition of dervish in English:

noun

A member of a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity. Dervishes first appeared in the 12th century; they were noted for their wild or ecstatic rituals and were known as dancing, whirling, or howling dervishesaccording to the practice of their order.

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Origin

From Turkish derviş, from Persian darvīš 'poor', (as a noun) 'religious mendicant'.

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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition Paperback

by Jalal al-Din Rumi (Author) , Coleman Barks (Translator) , John Moyne (Translator)
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: HarperOne; New Expanded Edition edition (May 28, 2004)

 Rumi,在春天走進果園   梁永安譯  台北:立緒 1998

 ***** 這本全無西方字母.翻譯以音譯為主. 介紹Rumi 也以哲學/宗教為主

伊斯蘭蘇菲概論

• 作者： (埃及)伍奈米
• 出版社：北京商務印書館
• 出版日期：2013/

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Why is Rumi the best-selling poet in the US?

Jane Ciabattari

About the author

Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has written for The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, NPR.org, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, and the Paris Review. She is a vice president of the National Book Critics Circle, having served as its president from 2008-11, and is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire.

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This 807-year-old Persian mystic and dervish has a massive following in the US and around the world. Jane Ciabattari explains his enduring influence.

The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born 807 years ago in 1207, have sold millions of copies in recent years, making him the most popular poet in the US. Globally, his fans are legion.

“He’s this compelling figure in all cultures,” says Brad Gooch, who is writing a biography of Rumi to follow his critically acclaimed books on Frank O’Hara and Flannery O’Connor. “The map of Rumi’s life covers 2,500 miles,” says Gooch, who has traveled from Rumi’s birthplace in Vakhsh, a small village in what is now Tajikistan, to Samarkand in Uzbekistan, to Iran and to Syria, where Rumi studied at Damascus and Aleppo in his twenties. His final stop was Konya, in Turkey, where Rumi spent the last 50 years of his life. Today Rumi’s tomb draws reverent followers and heads of state each year for a whirling dervish ceremony on 17 December, the anniversary of his death.

The transformative moment in Rumi’s life came in 1244, when he met a wandering mystic known as Shams of Tabriz. “Rumi was 37, a traditional Muslim preacher and scholar, as his father and grandfather had been,” says Gooch. “The two of them have this electric friendship for three years – lover and beloved [or] disciple and sheikh, it’s never clear.” Rumi became a mystic. After three years Shams disappeared – “possibly murdered by a jealous son of Rumi, possibly teaching Rumi an important lesson in separation.”

Rumi coped by writing poetry. “Most of the poetry we have comes from age 37 to 67. He wrote 3,000 [love songs] to Shams, the prophet Muhammad and God. He wrote 2,000 rubayat, four-line quatrains. He wrote in couplets a six-volume spiritual epic, The Masnavi.”
During these years, Rumi incorporated poetry, music and dance into religious practice. “Rumi would whirl while he was meditating and while composing poetry, which he dictated,” said Gooch. “That was codified after his death into elegant meditative dance.” Or, as Rumi wrote, in Ghazal 2,351: “I used to recite prayers. Now I recite rhymes and poems and songs.” Centuries after his death, Rumi’s work is recited, chanted, set to music and used as inspiration for novels, poems, music, films, YouTube videos and tweets (Gooch tweets his translations @RumiSecrets). Why does Rumi’s work endure?

The inward eye
“He’s a poet of joy and of love,” says Gooch. “His work comes out of dealing with the separation from Shams and from love and the source of creation, and out of facing death. Rumi’s message cuts through and communicates. I saw a bumper sticker once, with a line from Rumi: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

“Rumi is a very mysterious and provocative poet and figure for our time, as we grapple with understanding the Sufi tradition [and] understanding the nature of ecstasy and devotion and the power of poetry,” says the poet Anne Waldman, co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she is a professor of poetics. “And the homoerotic tradition as well, consummated or not. He is in a long tradition of ecstatic seers from Sappho to Walt Whitman.”

“Across time, place and culture, Rumi's poems articulate what it feels like to be alive,” says Lee Briccetti, executive director of Poets House, co-sponsor of a national library series in the US that features Rumi. (It’s currently in Detroit and Queens and heads to San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta and Columbus in 2015.)  “And they help us understand our own search for love and the ecstatic in the coil of daily life.” She compares Rumi’s work to Shakespeare’s for its “resonance and beauty”.

Coleman Barks, the translator whose work sparked an American Rumi renaissance and made Rumi the best-selling poet in the US, ticks off the reasons Rumi endures: “His startling imaginative freshness. The deep longing that we feel coming through.  His sense of humour.  There's always a playfulness [mixed] in with the wisdom.”

In 1976 the poet Robert Bly handed Barks a copy of Cambridge don AJ Arberry’s translation of Rumi and said, “These poems need to be released from their cages” Barks transformed them from stiff academic language into American-style free verse.  Since then, Barks’ translations have yielded 22 volumes in 33 years, including The Essential Rumi, A Year with Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book and Rumi’s father’s spiritual diary, The Drowned Book, all published by HarperOne.  They have sold more than 2m copies worldwide and have been translated into 23 languages.

A new volume is due in autumn. Rumi: Soul-fury and Kindness, the Friendship of Rumi and Shams Tabriz features Barks’ new translations of Rumi’s short poems (rubai), and some work on the Notebooks of Shams Tabriz, sometimes called The Sayings of Shams Tabriz.  “Like the Sayings of Jesus (The Gospel of Thomas), they have been hidden away for centuries,” Barks notes, “not in a red urn buried in Egypt, but in the dervish communities and libraries of Turkey and Iran. Over recent years scholars have begun to organise them and translate them into English.”

800 years ahead of the times
“Just now,” Barks says, “I feel there is a strong global movement, an impulse that wants to dissolve the boundaries that religions have put up and end the sectarian violence.  It is said that people of all religions came to Rumi's funeral in 1273. Because, they said, he deepens our faith wherever we are.  This is a powerful element in his appeal now.”

“Rumi was an experimental innovator among the Persian poets and he was a Sufi master,” says Jawid Mojaddedi, a scholar of early and medieval Sufism at Rutgers Ubiversity and an award-winning Rumi translator. “This combination of mystical richness and bold adaptations of poetic forms is the key to his popularity today.”

The first of Rumi’s four main innovations is his direct address to readers in the rare second person, says Mojaddedi.  “I think contemporary readers respond well to this directness.”

Second is his urge to teach: “Readers of ‘inspirational’ literature are drawn to Rumi’s poetry.”  Third, “his use of everyday imagery.” And fourth, “his optimism of the attainment of union within his lyrical love ghazals. The convention in that form is to stress its unattainability and the cruel rebuffs of the beloved. Rumi celebrates union.”

Mojaddedi has completed his translation of three of the six volumes of Rumi’s masterwork, The Masnavi. It is, he said, “the longest single-authored emphatically mystical poem ever written at 26,000 couplets, making it a significant work in its own right. It is also arguably the second most influential text in the Islamic world after the Quar’an.” The original Persian text was so influential that in Ottoman times a network of institutions was devoted to its study.

As new translations come into print, and his work continues to resonate, Rumi’s influence will continue. His inspiring words remind us how poetry can be a sustaining part of everyday life.