Mawlana Rumi Review

Download or read book Mawlana Rumi Review written by Roderick Grierson and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islam's greatest Sufi poet and author of some 60,000 verses composed in the widest variety of metrical patterns ever used by any Persian poet. Mawlana ('Our master') Jalal al-Din Rumi (d.1273) has also been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades. A publication of the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus and the Rumi Studies Group at the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, produced and distributed by Archetype in the UK, the Review publishes articles, reports and book reviews in English and French. Contributors to volume 6 include include Roderick Grierson, Kudsi Erguner, Shems Friedlander, Oliver Hoare, Talât Sait Halman, Slobodan Ilic, Eliza Tasbihi, Muhammad Isa Waley, Alan Williams and Giovanni De Zorzi with book reviews by Robert Darr, Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, and Abdallah Schleifer and translations by Franklin Lewis, Leonard Lewisohn and W. S. Merwin.