mevlânâ celâleddîn i rûmî kitaplar
A clear powerful voice of divine ecstatic love he awakens us to the possibility of a direct and intimate relationship with the divne. Eaach poetic whisper is urgent expressing the desire that penetrates human relationships and inspires intimacy with the self silently nurturing an affinity for the beloved. Mevlana in the east and as rumi in the west.
It is not clear when mevlana started writing the mesnevi though it is known that he started on the second volume of his magnum opus in 1264.
Mevlânâ celâleddîn i rûmî kitaplar. Jalaluddin rumi 1207 1273 was a master of the sufi tradition the mystical branch of islam. As for mevlana it. Mevlana celaleddin i rumi s masterpiece his six volume mesnevi consisting of about 25 700 verses or 50 000 lines is regarded as the most outstanding work of persian islamic mysticism. At birth his family named him muhammed though he came to be nicknamed celaleddin.
Rumi was born to native persian speaking parents originally from the balkh in present day afghanistan he was born either in wakhsh a village on the vakhsh river in present day tajikistan or in the city of balkh in present day afghanistan. These poems reflect the deepest logings of the human heart as it searches for the divine. Rumi as he is known in the west is the best selling poet in usa the united nations declared 2007 the year of rumi and celebrations were held world wide. He is known as hz.
In his poetry rumi calls to us from beyond the concerns of institutional religion and limiting beliefs. Greater balkh was at that time a major centre of persian culture and sufism had developed there for several centuries.