In 1907 F. Hadland Davis set out to “popularise the wisest of the Persian Súfís” for English readers who had never heard of him. This small book is the result: an introduction to Súfíism and its religion of love, an account of Rúmí’s life, his meeting with Shamsi Tabrīz and the legends told of him, and a hundred and one passages from his poetry. Forty come from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, mostly in R. A. Nicholson’s versions; sixty-one come from the Masnavi, mostly in E. H. Whinfield’s.
The paperback is available on Amazon. The Kindle edition is also available.
This edition is newly typeset from the complete text. It was compared word by word, by machine alignment, with independent transcriptions of the original printing, and every disagreement was checked against the page images. Nothing is abridged.
Rúmí also appears elsewhere on this site: see The Mystics of Islam for Nicholson’s account of the Sufi path.
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