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The thirteenth-century Persian mystic's words continue to resonate, particularly in this translation, which offers a remarkably contemporary voice. -- Oprah.com The Essential Rumi is a rare and precious book that will stir the hearts of Rumi devotees and win many new converts. -- Body Mind Spirit Delightful...Barks sparklingly demonstrates once again why his free-form interpretations of [Rumi's] poetry...have been a major impetus for the current Rumi vogue. -- Publishers Weekly If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is truly remarkable. -- Huston Smith, bestselling author of The World's Religions

"The thirteenth-century Persian mystic's words continue to resonate, particularly in this translation, which offers a remarkably contemporary voice. -- ""Oprah.com"" The Essential Rumi is a rare and precious book that will stir the hearts of Rumi devotees and win many new converts. -- ""Body Mind Spirit"" Delightful...Barks sparklingly demonstrates once again why his free-form interpretations of [Rumi's] poetry...have been a major impetus for the current Rumi vogue. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is truly remarkable. -- ""Huston Smith, bestselling author of The World's Religions"""

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Rumi (1207-1273) is the foremost Sufi poet, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Masnavi, a collection of mystical tales and discourse. Rumi lived in the Seldjuk capital Konya, and his influence on literature, carried by his Sufism, spread with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire and lasted centuries. Coleman Barks is an American poet. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is nonetheless renowned as an interpreter of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia. John Moyne is a Persian scholar, emeritus professor, and former head of the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969), as Head of the Department of Classics at Cairo University, acquired a firsthand knowledge of literary and social conditions in the Islamic Middle East. Between 1947 and 1969 he served as Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Professor Arberry published some twenty books in Islamic studies during his lifetime, many dealing with mysticism and poetry. Reynold Nicholson (1868-1945) was Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, and a distinguished editor and translator. Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

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