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The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
Nevit Ergin
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Description for The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
Paperback. The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi. Translator(s): Ergin, Dr. Nevit O.; Johnson, Will. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
After his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks. He began to speak spontaneously in the language of poetry, and his followers compiled his 44,000 verses into 23 volumes, collectively called the Divan. When Nevit Ergin decided to translate the Divan of Rumi into English, he enlisted the help of the Turkish government, which ... Read more
After his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks. He began to speak spontaneously in the language of poetry, and his followers compiled his 44,000 verses into 23 volumes, collectively called the Divan. When Nevit Ergin decided to translate the Divan of Rumi into English, he enlisted the help of the Turkish government, which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781594771156
SKU
V9781594771156
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About Nevit Ergin
Nevit Ergin, a Turkish-born surgeon, is the original translator of the entirety of Rumi’s 44,829 verses into English. He has been a student of Sufism and the poetry of Rumi since 1955 and published his first Rumi translation in 1992. With the publication of The Forbidden Rumi, his translation of Rumi’s work is complete. He lives in California. Will Johnson ... Read more
Reviews for The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
“For the past fifty years Nevit Ergin has been working to bring into English the entirety of Rumi’s vast Divani Shamsi Tabriz. This last volume is the most incendiary and it clearly dissolves the boundaries of organized religion and national ego that keep us from the table of friendship that Rumi invites us to. . . . We are very ... Read more