Episode 1: Rumi

Episode 1: Rumi
Logic of the Birds
Episode 1: Rumi

Mar 10 2024 | 01:24:28

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Episode 0 March 10, 2024 01:24:28

Show Notes

Professors Fatemeh Keshavarz and James Morris explore the poetry of Rumi, a famous Islamic scholar and Sufi master whose profound Persian poetry was widely-revered and recited from the Balkans to Western China, and recently became very popular in the United States as well. He is best known for his masterpieces, the Masnavi-i Ma‘navi (The Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poetic work of around 25,000 verses, dubbed “the Qur’an in Persian,” and the Divan-i Shams, a collection of over 3,000 ecstatic ghazals. Links and Further Reading/Listening: Prof. Keshavarz’s Radio Rumi Podcast . Mawlana Rumi Review . “Rumi – The Most Famous Sufi […]

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