Me and Rumi The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi,9781887752527

Me and Rumi The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi

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ISBN13: 9781887752527
ISBN10: 1887752528
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-01
Publisher(s): Fons Vitae
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Summary

The astounding autobiography of the man who transformed Rumi from a learned religious teacher into the world's greatest poet of mystical love.

Author Biography

Shams-i Tabrizi was the teacher and intensely close personal friend of Jalaluddin al-din Rumi, arguably the greatest poet of Sufism.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD IX
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION XI
My Years without Mawlana 1(36)
Childhood
3(4)
My Teaching Career
7(6)
My Travels
13(4)
Teachers and Shaykhs I Have Met
17(20)
My Path to God 37(140)
The Profit and Loss of Study
39(23)
Philosophy
62(6)
Following Muhammad
68(20)
The Religion of Old Women
88(15)
The Guidance of the Shaykh
103(13)
Avoiding Caprice
116(10)
The Companion of the Heart
126(13)
The Saints
139(13)
My Interpretations of Scripture
152(25)
My Time with Mawlana 177(130)
Our Encounter
179(10)
My Spiritual Mastery
189(16)
Mawlana's Exalted Station
205(6)
Our Companionship
211(19)
My Instructions to the Circle
230(35)
My Critics
265(12)
My Harshness with Friends
277(25)
My Return from Aleppo
302(5)
ABBREVIATIONS AND WORKS CITED 307(2)
NOTES TO THE PASSAGES 309(39)
INDEX OF KORANIC VERSES 348(6)
INDEX OF HADITHS AND SAYINGS 354(11)
INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF NAMES AND TERMS 365(41)
TABLE OF SOURCES 406

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