Rumi

by Rumi

Overview

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Jalal al-Din, commonly known as Rumi, was one of the greatest poets of Persia’s golden age through the thirteenth century. With imagery from the natural world and with themes of love, charity, spirituality and tolerance, Rumi’s work has become a global phenomenon. This selection, drawing on versions by different translators, reveals poetry that still resonates with millions of readers around the world. 

This stunning edition translated by Frederick Harland Davis, boasts a wide selection of the best Rumi poetry ever written. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914602696
Publisher:	Chiltern Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2025
Product dimensions:	(w) x 7.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jalal al-Din Rumi was the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language. His experience of love, longing, and loss turned Rumi into the greatest poet of the 13th Century. His didactic epic "Spiritual Couplets", widely influenced mystical thought and literature throughout the Muslim world. Rumi was a universalist in that his poetry crossed religious sectors and faiths due to its great wisdom, clarity, and love. His poems are translated and widely read around the world still today. Many claim that his poetry deepened their own spiritual practices, in addition to serving as a bridge from religion to culture to psychology.

Table of Contents

SELECTIONS FROM THE DĪVANI SHĀMSI TABRĪZ
1. “I Am Silent” 
2.  A Cry to the Beloved
3.  Remember God and Forget Self
4. “The Prince of the Fair”
5. “My Body is Like the Moon”
6. Mortality and Immortality
7. The Beloved the Divine Consoler
8. “Thou Art the Soul of the World”
9. “The Voice of Love”
10.  The Sea of Love
11.  The Beauty of the Beloved
12.  The Water of Eternal Life
13.  Earthly Love and the Divine
14. “The House of Love”
15.  Love’s Desire
16. The Finding of the Beloved
17. God Only
18. The Moon-soul and the Sea
19. Life in Death
20. The Whole and the Part
21. The Divine Friend
22. Aspiration
23. “I Well Cherish the Soul”
24. “This is Love”
25.  The Journey to the Beloved
26.  The Day of Resurrection
27.  The Return of the Beloved
28.  The Call of the Beloved
29. “The Banquet of Union”
30. “Be Silent”
31. “Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden”
32. “The World Gave Thee False Clues”
33. “He Comes”
34. “The Road Be Thine Towards the Shrine”
35. Thy Rose
36. “I Saw the Winter Weaving”
37. “Love Sounds the Music of the Spheres”
38. “The Souls Love-Moved”
39. The Beloved All in All
40. “Thou and I”

SELECTIONS FROM THE MASNAVI
41. Sorrow Quenched in the Beloved
42. The Music of Love
43. “When the Rose has Faded”
44. The Silence of Love
45. Earthly Love Essential to the Love Divine
46. The Eternal Splendour of the Beloved
47. Woman
48. The Divine Union 
49. “He Knows About It All” 
50. Resignation the Way to Perfection
51. Love the Source of Light Rather Than Vanishing Form
52. The Religion of Love
53. “Pain is a Treasure”
54. Spirit Greater Than Form
55. The Beloved Compared to “A Sweet Garden”
56. “Behold the Water of Waters!”
57. Where Love Is
58. The Love of the Beloved
59. The Love of the Soul and the Love of the Body
60. “O Love, Love, and Heart’s Desire of Love!”
61. Destroy Not Earthly Beauty: It Beautifies the Soul
62. The Devil Makes Use of the Beauty of Women
63. “Lovers and Beloved Have Both Perished”
64. “O Angels Bring Him Back to Me”
65. Self-aggrandisement and Vainglory No Part of Love
66. “I Am Thine and Thou Art Mine!”
67. Love Needs No Mediator
68. Humanity the Reflection of the Beloved
69. “Earthly Forms”
70. “The Beatific Vision of Eternal Truth”
71. The Wine Everlasting
72. Be Lost in the Beauty of the Beloved
73. “What Ear Has Told You Falsely”
74. “There is No Place of Refuge”
75. The Lover’s Cry to the Beloved
76. Sorrow Turned to Joy
77. The Gifts of the Beloved
78. “Thou Art Hidden from Us”
79. “Exert Yourselves”
80. The Wisdom of the Weak
81. White Nights
82. “The Kingly Soul”
83. Saint and Hypocrite
84. Harshness and Adoration
85. The Divine Absorption
86. Love More Than Sorrow and Joy
87. “The Heart of the Harper”
88. “When Night Returns”
89.  Separation
90. “God’s Light”
91. “Love Casts Its Own Light”
92. “The Believer’s Heart”
93. “Self-Satisfaction”
94. “True Knowledge”
95. “The Flame of Love”
96. A Mother Whose Children Were in the Beloved’s Keeping
97. The Optimistic Rose
98. The True Mosque
99. “Ignorance”
100.  A Prayer