Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

DESCRIPTION:

Rumi s love poems are both mystical and a mystery. Reflecting the complexities of passion and faith, they have a remarkable power and emotional intensity, with an exuberant imagination and rhythms, which echo the ecstatic dance of the whirling dervishes. They embrace the complexities and paradoxes of love separation, cruelty, and break-up and convey love s power, emotional intensity and its passion. Though seemingly addressed to a lover, they encompass the universe in their imagery and are metaphors of love in its physical form. The calligraphy of Lassa d Metoui illustrates Rumi s words to renew their sense of love s meaning and enhance Rumi s thoughts on love.

DETAILS:

ISBN: 9780285643321
AUTHOR: Jalaludin Rumi (Author), Lassaad Metoui (Illustrator)
BINDING: Paperback
PAGES: 96 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 14.99 x 14.73 x 1.02 cm
PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press Ltd

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

RUMI was born in Persia in 1207, he composed thousands of poems that are still recited during religious ceremonies today. He founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes of Sufism, which spread throughout the Muslim world after his death. Centuries after his death Rumi is the world s bestselling poet.

Reviews

This seductive little book makes the ideal gift for anyone you hold dear to your heart… What loved one could fail to be impressed by such timeless beauty, exploring the wonder of the human condition. --Erotic Review

The enduring message of love, mercy and compassion championed by... one of the Muslim world s most influential teachers and sages, and certainly one of the world s bestselling poets, could not be more pertinent than in this day and age. --The Muslim Post

The poems… express so much of the intoxication of love, are accompanied by the beautiful calligraphy of Lassaad Metoui which reflects in a complementary medium the swirl of the emotions. --The Catholic Herald