Light Upon Light: Inspirations from Rumi
by Andrew Harvey
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Mystical scholar Andrew Harvey offers fresh interpretations of more than 250 selections from Rumi's major works. The works of Sufi mystic and poet Jalad-ud-Din Rumi have been revered in the East for centuries. Now, Western seekers and lovers of poetry are discovering Rumi in unprecedented numbers. Harvey uses these poems, quotations, and parables from Rumi's major works, the Discourses, the Diwan, the Mathnawi, the Odes, and the Rubiyat, as well as excerpts from his letters to re-create the show more stages of the spiritual journey into Love. Anyone interested in spirituality will findLight Upon Lighta rich source of guidance, encouragement, and profound inspiration. show lessTags
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Andrew Harvey is the author of "Son of Man" (named one of "Publishers Weekly's" Best Books of 1998) & the bestsellers "The Journey to Ladakh" & "Hidden Journey". With Sogyal Rinpoche, he coauthored "The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying". He lives with his husband, photographer Eryk Hanut, in Nevada near the Mojave Desert. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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- 891.5511 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Iranian literatures Modern Persian / Farsi literature (8th century CE to present) Persian poetry ca. 1000–1389
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- PR6058 .A6986 .L55 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1961-2000
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