The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islam's greatest Sufi poet and author of some 60,000 verses composed in the widest variety of metrical patterns ever used by any Persian poet. Mawlana ('Our master') Jalal al-Din Rumi (d.1273) has also been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades. A publication of the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus and the Rumi Studies Group at the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, produced and distributed by Archetype in the UK, the Review publishes articles, reports and book reviews in English and French. Contributors to volume 6 include include Roderick Grierson, Kudsi Erguner, Shems Friedlander, Oliver Hoare, Talât Sait Halman, Slobodan Ilic, Eliza Tasbihi, Muhammad Isa Waley, Alan Williams and Giovanni De Zorzi with book reviews by Robert Darr, Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, and Abdallah Schleifer and translations by Franklin Lewis, Leonard Lewisohn and W. S. Merwin.

The Mawlana Rumi Review is a new annual academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, the world's greatest Sufi poet. It contains articles, reports, and book reviews dealing with Rumi's art of story-telling, poetic imagery, theology, spiritual psychology, ecumenism, erotic spirituality, pedagogy, hermeneutics, ethics, epistemology, prophetology, metaphysics, and cosmology, as well as on the heritage of Rumi's thought in modern and medieval literary history and interpretation and commentary on his works such as the Mathnawi and Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz.

Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about his life except that he lived in thirteenth-century Anatolia (now Turkey), had a great spiritual friendship with a wild man called Shams, brought an adopted daughter into his family, and was distraught when Shams finally disappeared. Rumi's Daughter is the delightful novel about Kimya, the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi's home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi's tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, an unusual husband, almost totally absorbed by his longings for God. Their marriage was fiery and different and, in the end, dissolved by Kimya's death - after which Shams vanished. Rumi's Daughter tells Kimya's story with great charm and tenderness. Well written and thought-provoking, it is sure to draw comparison with Paolho Coelho's The Alchemist, and also to add something fresh and new to what is so far known about Rumi.

This is the third volume of the Mawalana Rumi Review, the only journal devoted to the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. Articles include Female Masters in the History of Sufism, by Hülya Küçük. and 'Sultan Walad's (Rumi's son) role in the Foundation of the Mevlevi Sufi Order', as well as, 'A proper cutt: William Hogarth and the Dervishes who Serve God on their Tiptoes'; also including original translations from Rumi by acclaimed scholar Franklin Lewis. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn comprising 224 pages with illustrations. Table of Contents: 1. Some Remarks on Rumi's Poetry Badi al-Zaman Furuzanfar Translated from the Persian by Rasoul Sorkhabi 2. A Proper Cutt: William Hogarth, Motraye's Travels, and the Dervishes who Serve God on their Tiptoes Roderick Grierson 3. Sim?? al-M?qin?n (Spiritual Food for the People of Certainty): Ism?'?l Anqaraw?'s Arabic Commentary on the Introduction of the Mathnaw? Bilal Kuspinar 4. Boundless Love: Ankaravi's Commentary on the Preface to the Second Book of the Mathnawi Alberto F. Ambrosio 5. Female Masters in the History of Sufism: The Case of Mawlawiyya Sufi Order from the Early Phase to the Eighteenth Century Hülya Küçük 6. Naqshband? Admirers of R?m? in the Late Timurid Period Lloyd Ridgeon BOOK REVIEWS A. Christine van Rymbeke on 3 books of Rumi translations B. Roderick Grierson on Kudsi Erguner C. Stéphane Barsacq on Leili Anvar

Offers a new way of thinking about Rumi's poetry, focusing on Rumi's place within the Sufi tradition of Islam and providing readers with an image of the mystical side of the religion-one that has love of God at its core and sublime wisdom teachings as its pathways.

Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and deeply versed in spiritual teaching, it takes us on a profound and playful journey of discovery along the path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with the source of all Truth. In Book Two of the Masnavi, the second of six volumes, we travel with Rumi toward an understanding of the deeper truth and reality, beyond the limits of the self. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated with an introduction, notes and analysis by Alan Williams and including the Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami.

This is a very philosophic poem ... from a very religious man who has a connection to God that is surreal. He is saying that we are all in one, we are one with nature, the wind, the sun, the everything in the world. Some are given the ability to see what can't be seen or what can't be smelled or felt ... but they know without actually knowing. It is a gift beyond what others know or will ever know. When a human realizes his connection and abiding to nature it makes them want to honor it because that was your beginning and will be your end. From the moment we are born until we die, our spirit and nature are formed from our existence of this world and the ideals our world teaches us. Some get it and sadly ... some don't. This man got it and he wanted us to know his thoughts and ideas. The rest of the book is poetry with stories of the Sufi poet Rumi and Shams.