Product Description: Jalaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi poet and mystic born in 1204, believed that if we surrender ourselves to the power of love, it is possible to live in a state of infinite bliss. This collection features poems from the Divan to "Shams-e Tabriz", odes to the inspirational and mysterious figure who changed Rumi's life and led him to spiritual enlightenment; from the Ruba'iyat, which are brief lyric pieces of a set form; and from the Mathnavi-e Na'navi, the Poem of Inner Meanings, which, through its esoteric teachings, offers moral and spiritual knowledge...read more

Product Description: RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment...read more

Jalaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi mystic born in 1204, wrote poetry as a means to express and teach divine illumination. This collection features poems from the 'Divan' to 'Shams-e Tabriz'; from the Ruba'iyat, which are brief lyric pieces of a set form; and from the 'Mathnavi-e Na'navi', the Poem of Inner Meanings.

Exquisite Persian miniatures accompany this collection of verse from the vaults of the great Sufi poet Rumi, highlighting the mystical wisdom of this great spiritual teacher. 17,500 first printing.