Jalalu'l-Din Rumi (1207-73) was the greatest of the Persian mystical poets. In his extensive writings he explored the profound themes that had gradually evolved with the long succession of Sufi thinkers since the ninth century, such as the nature of truth, of beauty, and of our spiritual relationship with God. Professor R. A. Nicholson translated this inspiring collection of mystical poems shortly before his death. It contains delicately rhythmical versions of over a hundred short passages from Rumi's greatest works, together with brief yet illuminating explanatory notes. With this attractive and accessible translation, a wider readership can appreciate the range and depth of Rumi's intellect and imagination, and discover why it is so often said that in Rumi the Persian mystical genius found its supreme expression.

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The Song of the Reed --Remembered Music -- Love in Absence -- "The Marriage of True Minds" -- "A Sleep and a Forgetting" -- The Grief of the Dead -- The Unregenerate -- The Burden of Existence -- The Spirit of the Saints -- The Children of Light -- Love, the Hierophant -- The Love of Woman -- Divine Beauty -- "I Turn Toward Thee" -- The Truth within Us -- Mystics Know -- Asleep to the World -- The Faithful Are One Soul -- The Ladder to Heaven -- The True Sufi -- Nothing Venture Nothing Win -- The Man Who Looked Back on His Way to Hell -- Spiritual Churning -- The Blind Follower -- The Birds of Solomon -- The Carnal Soul -- The Beauty of Death -- A Prayer for Good Behaviour -- Communion with the Saints -- The Man Who Fled from Azrael -- "Omnes Eodem Cogimur" -- Faith and Works -- "No Monkery in Islam" -- Do Not Travel Alone -- Fine Feathers -- The Treasure-Seeker -- The Mystic Way -- The Sceptic -- The Evil in Ourselves -- The Hierarchy of Saints The Song of the Reed -- Remembered Music -- Love in Absence -- "The Marriage of True Minds" -- "A Sleep and a Forgetting" -- The Grief of the Dead -- The Unregenerate -- The Burden of Existence -- The Spirit of the Saints -- The Children of Light -- Love, the Hierophant -- The Love of Woman -- Divine Beauty -- "I Turn Toward Thee" -- The Truth within Us -- Mystics Know -- Asleep to the World -- The Faithful Are One Soul -- The Ladder to Heaven -- The True Sufi -- Nothing Venture Nothing Win -- The Man Who Looked Back on His Way to Hell -- Spiritual Churning -- The Blind Follower -- The Birds of Solomon -- The Carnal Soul -- The Beauty of Death -- A Prayer for Good Behaviour -- Communion with the Saints -- The Man Who Fled from Azrael -- "Omnes Eodem Cogimur" -- Faith and Works -- "No Monkery in Islam" -- Do Not Travel Alone -- Fine Feathers -- The Treasure-Seeker -- The Mystic Way -- The Sceptic -- The Evil in Ourselves -- The Hierarchy of Saints.