Rumi, Dancing the Flame

by Nader Khalili

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Why is a 700-hundred-year-old Sufi mystic one of the best-selling poets in America today? Rumi's verses embrace human and spiritual truths fearlessly and without regard to social convention. This volume contains more than 300 translations of the poet's short poems and 32 plates of original Persian calligraphy as well as a description of the life of the poet.

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Music
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891.551Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesIranian literaturesModern Persian / Farsi literature (8th century CE to present)Persian poetry
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PK6481 .D6 .E5Language and LiteratureIndo-Iranian languages and literaturesIndo-Iranian philology and literatureIranian philology and literatureNew PersianLiteratureIndividual authors or worksJala_l al-D i_n Ru_m i_ Maulana
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