ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL

Una introducción muy asequible y rigurosa para familiarizarnos con la dimensión interna del islam.

This book (previously published as I Am Wind, You Are Fire) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persias great mystical poet, Rumi (12071273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious teacher in Anatolia until the age of thirty-seven, when he came under the influence of a whirling dervish, Shams Tabriz, and was moved to a state of mystical ecstasy. One of the results of this ecstasy was a prodigious output of poems about the search for the lost Divine Beloved, whom Rumi identified with Shams. To symbolize this search, Rumi also invented the famous whirling dance of the Melevi dervishes, which are performed accompanied by the chanting of Rumis poems. Professor Schimmel illuminates the symbolism and significance of Rumis vast output and offers her own translations of some of his most famous poems.