Rumi – The Persian Mystic

Frederick Hadland Davis

Paperback, 128 Pages, Black & White
5 x 7 Inches
Qadeem Press

Rumi (1207-1273) was a Persian jurist and theologian best known widely translated and remains especially popular in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Though written from a Sufi perspective, Rumi’s poems on spiritual growth – here collected and edited by F. Hadland Davis and first published in 1907 across all cultural and religious bounds and can still be heard today in many secular and religious settings.

Table of Contents:

EDITORIAL NOTE

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

I. Origin of Sufism

II. The Early Sufis

III. The Nature of Sufism

IV. The Influence of Sufism

V. Analysis of the Religion of Love

THE LIFE AND WORK OF JALALU’DDIN RUMI

I. Life

II. Shams Tabraiz

III. The Stories of AI-Aflaki and the Death of Jalalu’ddin Rumi

IV. The Nature and Significance of Jalalu’d-Din Rumi’s Poetry

SELECTIONS FROM THE “DIVANE SHAMS TABRAIZ”

SELECTIONS FROM THE “MASNAVI”

APPENDIX: A NOTE ON PERSIAN POETRY