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The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master

by Emily Jane O'Dell
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781250261373
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
  • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Essentials
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: INR 499.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Religious, Middle Eastern, and Islam / Sufi

An authentic exploration of the real Rumi

As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualizing his work against the broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his work. Author Emily Jane O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi master and his whirling dervishes in Istanbul. She weaves this expertise throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic work.

At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the "religion of love" which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gift of Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way.

DR. EMILY JANE O'DELL has spent over two decades visiting Sufi masters and communities from Indonesia to Mali, studied Sufi whirling in Cairo and Istanbul, and preserved Sufi shrines as an archaeologist on the Silk Road in Turkmenistan. A global scholar and adventurer, she has been the Whittlesey Chair of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut, an Associate Professor at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in China, an Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman, an Islamic Law and Civilization Research Fellow at Yale Law School, and an editor for Harvard Law School's SHARIASource. Stateside she has taught at Columbia, Brown, and Harvard, where she received a teaching excellence award. Her research can be found in the Journal of Global Slavery, Journal of Iranian Studies, Journal of Africana Religions, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability & Society, and SHARIASource. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Louisville Review, Al Jazeera, NPR, CounterPunch, Salon, TRT World, The Christian Science Monitor, and Huffington Post.

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